Last week was a really hard week with my grandmother passing away and then this Saturday we had to put Winston to sleep.
He had started to look better but would not eat. So Saturday we forced him to eat and then he started to get sick again and would not stop. Keith brought him to the LSU emergency vet at 11pm they told us it was an intestinal obstruction. Well we had already decided after Winston second surgery to open him up to check for an obstruction that we could just not do that again financially and the principle of natural selection. The first time he was puppy they did not find anything and the 2nd time was in 2009 they removed a corn cob (that must have been dropped at our Easter crawfish boil). Then in June 2010 I dropped a corn cob while putting it in the trash and Winston snatched it up and ate it, we gave him hydrogen peroxide and he threw it up. LSU Vet called today with the autopsy report and he had a corn cob stuck again. We can not think of when he could have got another corn cob since we the first corn cob he has not been allowed out at crawfish/crab boils.
We are very sad and upset that we had to put him to sleep. We miss him so much, Grady is ok with the fact that Winston is in heaven. We had been talking about Winston getting old and might be going to heaven for a while now (not sure why but we were). Grady has asked us that when we get another dog can he have the same brown and white spots and can we name him Winston.
