Today we said goodbye to Chase

When we were at the vet's on Monday she did more tests and discovered that he was full of cancer.   In his abdomen and it had spread to his lungs.  We could have kept him alive a bit longer but he would have just gotten sicker and suffered.  He hadn't even seemed sick 3 weeks ago, but she said that dogs often keep functioning until they can't anymore so it seems that they get sick quickly.  We were going to go in tomorrow but he got a lot worse Monday afternoon and into Tuesday.  Rrain came over Tuesday to say goodbye. He didn't eat and was refusing even water.  It was very peaceful and quick.  The room we were in had a picture of a hummingbird on the wall that Rrain had painted.  It made it a family goodbye