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She is a girl.
Canine degenerative myelopathy is an inherited neurologic disease typically affecting dogs around eight years of age or older. It causes gradual muscle wasting and incoordination in the hind limbs, and then progresses to an inability to walk after six to twelve months.
In the end I was having to pick her up to move her and hold her over a bucket to wee - she was still bright and alert though - but it came to a point where it was starting to affect her breathing so the time came.
I suspect that’s what our Labrador had.
I had to lift him up and carry him about in the last year of his life. The vet had told me one day he wouldnt be able to stand and sure enough it happened. My boy used to bark whenever the door bell rang. On the day the vet came to the door he never barked. You sort of have to accept that if he had given up …it was time. Very sad.
Have to say we didn’t have another dog…couldn’t go through it all again.
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