09/24/2025
Our hearts are broken… Moose passed away on Monday. He’d been ‘off’ since mid-August- multiple vet visits, blood work, stool/urine- everything was normal… this past weekend his stomach got really bloated and he was breathing heavy despite having carprofen and gabapentin on board. Took him to ER Sunday night and xray looked like a possible mass. Vet on Monday for ultrasound and vet told us his stomach and spleen were riddled with likely mast cell tumors (he had a tumor removed in April this year and vet said could either be recurrent or a benign growth, pathology showed a grade 2 mast cell which could go either way). Vet on Monday said he wasn’t a surgical candidate but we could do a biopsy and maybe start an aggressive chemo but she didn’t think it would change the outcome much since the tumors were everywhere. We decided to start on steroids and antihistamines and vet told us we had maybe 1-2 weeks with him. I left work early once I got the news. Moose greeted me at the door, tail wagging all excited to see me. Larry was at grocery store to get a bunch of treats and steaks so we could spend the next week spoiling him before having in-home euthanasia. Moose watched me change into comfy clothes and about 10 minutes after that he suddenly changed. Breathing heavy, moving weird, vomited, incontinent. Larry got back to the house a few minutes after that and Moose declined rapidly. About an hour and a half later, he took his last breath. His head in Larry’s lap, me hugging and holding him, Brindie lying beside him and Callisto there watching.
Our hearts and souls are crushed, I’m so lost. Sad and angry and confused and hurt and in disbelief… going thru the thousands of videos and pictures we have is bittersweet. He was loved so deeply. There’s a Moose sized hole in our lives that can’t ever be filled… I’ll share more photos and videos in the upcoming days…
