We lost our 10 year-old Staffie named Justice to cancer on Wednesday
She'd been suffering with strange random episodes for the last 12 months or so, where her back legs would just give way and she'd just flake out for 24hrs, then she'd be absolutely fine again for sometimes months on end.
The vets couldn't find anything obviously wrong but her abdomen started getting bigger and bigger and she was clearly in pain when we touched it, so she had a scan on Tuesday and they found a large growth on her spleen.
She went in to have the spleen removed on Wednesday morning but we received a phone call 15 minutes later to say they'd found tumas on her gut and liver as well, and they'd only just started looking so chances are there were more. They could have removed the spleen and part of the gut but chances were she'd never fully recover from the op. As much as it pained us to do so, we took the decision to have her put down
Absolutely gutted doesn't even begin to cover it but we do have our other Staffie, Bully to keep us occupied. We were planning on taking both the dogs up to Snowdonia with us at the end of May for my grandad's 80th birthday, so we've decided to get Justice cremated and take the urn up with us so she can still be there
RIP Jussy Wuzzle - You'll be sorely missed; you were a trooper and gave us many years of smiles and laughter. Walks in the forest won't be the same without your constant running 20 metres away and then coming back to make sure we're ok.