My Dog Blacky

by Anonymous

My dog Blacky was a golden retriever. He was the greatest dog ever. If I told him to come, he came. If I told he to sit, he would sit. If I told him to fetch, he would fetch.

Blacky would do whatever I told him. Well at least for his first 13 years alive. During his 14th year I noticed he wasn't himself. I took him in for his annual checkup and the Vet said he was a okay.

In the next two months though Blacky slowly started shutting down. I took him back to the vet and they noticed that his heart beat was way to slow.

As they looked a little closer at Blacky, they decided to take a heart scan. When the test was completed, it revealed he had severe canine cancer in the heart. It was so severe that there really wasn't anything they could do.

My dog had cancer. We took Blacky to a dog cancer specialist where they performed chemotherapy on Blacky. For the first couple days it looked promising. However, Blacky just couldn't handle the radiation and he died within within one week.

Blacky was the greatest dog ever and I wish that we could have caught the cancer earlier. I think that dogs should have a cancer scan during there annual checkups because it could save a lot of animals from dying and my Blacky could have had a much better chance to live.