But He Will Live On. {R.I.P Riley}

July 25, 2012

{not a challenge post..}

The day we first got Riley :)

 Remember the post where I told about how my mom brought home a cute, chubby little Jack Russell mixed puppy from work because the owner couldn't take care of the pups so he was going to take the pups to the pound? Well this past Monday morning, our Riley passed away. 

Riley wasn't the first in his litter to pass on either. He was one of the last in his litter to leave this earth. Something in his blood-line wasn't right. He was a perfectly healthy puppy until two weeks ago. All of a sudden, Riley started having really bad seizures. After a couple seconds, he would get up and everything was normal, of so it seemed. We looked it up online and began mixing honey with his food, because that is said to help. It helped for a little bit. 

A week later, it happened again even more times a day. Riley began to get weak and his memory began to fail. Since the vet was closed, we went online again and read that there was nothing to cure him from having the Epileptic Seizures for good. The medicine would cure it temporarily and sometimes not at all depending on the dog, since the condition is genetic. The next day, we couldn't find him anywhere and we searched and searched. We eventually found him but he was already gone. :'(  He fought for as long as he could. But he will live on in our hearts. I'm sure he's in the big dog-park in the sky, running and playing with all the other dogs. 

 We miss you Riley!!!!!!!

*~Keep your lights shining, though sometimes it's hard to; like a lit flame burning in a cube of ice. 

*~KayKay