RIP Ally! You were a good damn dog!

The last week has been such a terrible week for us! A week ago today our girl Ally was hit by a pickup on our dirt road just past our house. We don't have a whole lot of traffic because it turns to dirt after our house but harvest has begun. Ally loved to chase vehicles but always stayed on the bank so this is all still a mystery to us. In fact Monday morning when we came home from town I tricked her and drove past the house and she ran on the bank behind us and then stopped and was waiting for us when we turned around and came home. David was enjoying his coffee before heading over to the farm Monday morning and when he went outside and had been in and out of the truck he just knew there was something wrong. So he drove down the dirt road (stop reading if you don't want details) and found our girls tail in the road. We spent the next hour and a half searching for Ally. Kellie came over and was helping us and decided to look on the other side of the road and saw her head and ears through a pine tree. What we found was our girl alive but in bad shape. She could walk but her abdomen was filleted open and her tail had been ripped out so her hind end was very messed up. We took her to the vet and he said he would do his best to put her back together but couldn't guarantee she would be able to function properly. Through out the week we went in and Thursday even brought her home to try and get her to eat. She couldn't urinate without him pressing her bladder and we still didn't know if she would have bowel control because she wouldn't eat. Well Thursday night he force feed her gravy and Friday morning when we saw her you could tell she had more strength. Unfortunately when we went in Saturday morning, expecting to bring her home for the day the vet told us she had now bowel control. At that point the hard choice had to be made to put her down. She was an inside dog so she couldn't live like that and neither could we. We are trying to expand our family and having dog poop on the floor and shampooing the carpet constantly isn't a healthy environment for anyone, let alone a baby or our 4 year old daughter. It was so hard to say goodbye to Ally and I miss her beyond words. Even though she hasn't been home for a week now except for a day visit I wake up expecting her to meet me in the living room after I go to the bathroom so she can go outside to potty. I would let her out on the deck and she would take off barking to scare off anything that may be in the dark. She wasn't big barker, the vet said she never barked when we would board her when we were out of town. Bless her heart she was just the best girl a family could ask for. I was going through my computer and found this video of her. This was our typical Ally.

 

RIP Miss Ally, we love you so damn much!