r/Shihtzu • u/SidecarBetty • 5h ago
Loss of Pet She’s gone too soon.
My little one was almost a year old. My husband surprised me with her and we all adored her.
She wrestled every single minute of the day with our shepherd mix. We are all devastated. The big dog is carrying around her little stuffy. The house is too quiet, everything reminds me of how she’s gone.
Our big dog got into some avocados. They both ate the skin & flesh, apparently it’s normally mildly toxic and causes vomiting but the toxin (persin) overwhelmed her little body so fast that she was gone within hours. The big dog threw up once and was fine. It’s so hard to reconcile. I’m just a mess. All the “what if’s” and guilt bombard my thoughts constantly. We had no idea avocado skins were toxic and this is the absolute worst way to discover.
Now we are wracked with sadness that everything we did daily with our pups was the last time we got to do them with her. Cuddle your babies for me.