Rest in peace Mickey

Today embarks a very sad day for our family. We lost our little furry friend Mickey who has been a longtime family member of ours for 16 years. He has been suffering from mitral val ve disease the past year. A common disease in older dogs. He had a constant chronic cough (a common symptom) along with an irregular hea rt bea t (m urmur). The vet diagnosed that eventually over time as he ag ed , h is heart w ould most likely give up. The indicators that we monitored was his b reath count at rest. So when I noticed he was breathing rapidly at rest, it was a strong indicator that his hear t was w orkin g harder and would eventually go into cardiac arrest. We could tell the night before his passing that he was slowly weakening. He could b ar ely walk, stop ped eating, drinking, and was very slow moving. I had this very small hunch that he was getting ready to depart. That night, we heard him struggling to walk on our wooden floors. We could hear his paws scamper...