I am so sorry to have to share this with all of you again, not even four months later. On October 26th, our sweet Kira passed away. We are officially down to one dog, and honestly, it just doesn’t feel real yet. We thought she was just experiencing some minor back pain from playing too hard with Eleanor, but things escalated incredibly fast and turned into a nightmare we never saw coming. 🌈 Memphis Memorial Plushie: https://bit.ly/MemphisMemorialPlush Calendar and Coloring book: https://etsy.me/4u1qnr6 Venmo to help cover the Vet bills - @gonetothesnowdogs
We had taken her to our local vet and even the emergency vet, but when she started having severe fainting spells, we rushed her three and a half hours downstate to Detroit. They found an inoperable mass on her heart. There was nothing we could do, and because she was in crisis, we had to let her go. Jamie drove Eleanor down so we could all be together for those final moments. Eleanor is an only dog now, for the first time in 18 years, we only have one dog in the house, and she is feeling pretty lost without her buddies.
I know this year has been so devastating, and I appreciate every single one of you who continues to support us. We will keep moving forward, and yes, eventually we will find a friend for Eleanor because she cannot be alone. Thank you for being here, for loving Kira, and for sending us so much kindness.
And now there's just one.
How did I go from three dogs to one within a matter of four months?
If this is how you're finding this out, I am so sorry.
I'm sorry no matter how you found it out,
but if this is the video that you found it through,
I'm sorry that I have to do this again,
not even four months later.
I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on this. I do not have the
energy to do that right now, but I will tell
you what I can, and if you want to know more,
i did post a whole bunch of posts all over social media
and instagram and facebook and here on
youtube on the community tab with more detail of kind of what happened
because i know a lot of you
guys are going to be confused i will make another video telling you
in full detail what happened
because if it can help anybody else um that would
that that's why i will do it if you do not watch
our vlog channel i will give you a little bit
of a backstory about kira by the way if i haven't
said it we lost kira october 26 kira passed away we're down
to one how can we be gone to the snow
dogs with only one um so on october 26 kira passed
away it happened ridiculously fast um she if you
watch the vlogs then you know that she
was experiencing some minor back pain which we
thought was because tweedledee
and tweedledum were playing with each other and that eleanor
may have bumped her and so we took her in and we got
her some medicine for her back pain then we
did that big camping trip we did nova we did all these things
but something wasn't right like it
was which we thought was her back
and it apparently was way more than that um but we would have had no
way of knowing nobody would have caught
this um she had some fainting spells over the weekend i
was at the emergency vet i was at my vet friday twice
and then we were at the emergency vet twice
saturday and then sunday
when it started to ramp up really bad with her every time she would get
up she would faint um we rushed her to detroit we live up in alpena
so we were three and a half
hours we rushed her three and a half hours down to detroit
and uh they found a mass on her heart
uh inoperable nothing they could do i will tell you
that we did call two major cardiologists
specialty centers, uh, one in Colorado
and one in Illinois to see if there was anything they could
do. If there was a possibility, they could put a stint in,
which might've given her more time,
which we don't even, but there was nothing that they could do.
The type of tumor where it was,
there was nothing left we could do. So we had to let her go.
Um, I didn't, we didn't even get to
bring her home. We had to let her go down there.
She would not have survived the three and a half
hour car ride back to the house i don't even
know how she survived the three and a half car
three and a half hour
car ride down to the hospital downstate we walked into the hospital
downstate and she collapsed right as we walked in um she was in crisis
and she remained that way
she didn't come back out of it like she
was in crisis uh again i will make another video and i
will go over the details but that is not something i can
do right now i just can't that was my plan
for right now but no i changed my mind that's
not the plan now um so yeah i also put up a video on
the vlog channel and there'll probably be a video going up
on the Snowdog Shorts channel but they're
all pretty much gonna say this same thing
um i understand that a lot of you uh probably won't
be able to watch for a while or maybe maybe this is this is your exit
and i i understand and i love
you guys and I understand if I could run away
and not have to deal with any of this I would
um so I understand that I
also want to tell you guys that um because everybody always asks there
is a P.O. box below um and if you want to send cards
or letters or whatever it's always appreciated
we read everything I cannot guarantee
that it's all going to make it in a video I know in the
past I've done the memorial videos where I've shared all
the mail you guys have sent I couldn't
do it with Memphis and i know i'm not going to be able
to do it we're not even we haven't even made
it a year since Memphis but at least when we lost you
and you we had a year in between but
you and you it hasn't even been four months i hate i hate
that i have to tell you guys this
and no we're not taking a break right now we're
just gonna keep moving forward saturday you might
see a really cute video
that hopefully will make everybody laugh we'll see if it happens but
as of right now i had to let you guys know
if you go on our social media like i said there's
more detail i am this is unedited i'm not editing
this this is what it is we're not going back
through and cutting
and doing all that stupid stuff you get real raw this is me telling you
what that we lost another one
and she's gone and i can't even understand
so monday october 26th
it was around just before 4:30 we had to let her go she
when we got to the hospital in Detroit
they told me they didn't even know if she
was going to make it through the night
like that's if if you want to understand
the severity that was the severity we had to have
her hospitalized overnight um we stayed down there uh dan
who edits these videos was we thought we
were going down there for neurology to figure out what
was going on with her back like i'll tell all
this story later but we did not think we
were going down there for what we did so uh jamie had
stayed up here with Eleanor and dan was here
because he's here for Halloween visiting he went
down with me and then the next morning at 6 a.m jamie got up
and drove down and brought Eleanor
and so we could all be together
but you're an only dog now it's
been 18 years since we've only had
one dog 18 years since we've only had one i don't
understand what we did in this world to deserve
any of this but i i think that whenever anybody goes through tragedy
so don't read too deep into
that yeah um there are still blogs going up
on the vlog channel at Snow Dogs Vlogs all of you
guys by now know we have a blog channel um like
the Novi videos are still going up over there
so if you want to see some of those last videos
with her in it that's where they will be i have
a couple more videos that haven't even been edited
that have her in it as well so weird it just feels
so wrong it just doesn't feel it doesn't feel real we just did
this we just went through this
we just had to destroy the internet and tell everybody
and this year oh my gosh you guys i
know a lot of you guys are going to be in the comments
talking about all the other dogs that
have passed away this year and all the other cats
and all the other yeah well i know i know you
forget that i've been doing this for 20 years i've
been friends with a lot of these creators who've
had these pets for years and years and years you know
so yeah i know it's this year sucks there's
no other way to put it this year sucks it does it hasn't all
been bad it hasn't all been bad but
it sucks i'm gonna go ahead and end this video
because i just can't even think straight right
now all right you guys we love you we appreciate you
and for those worried about eleanor she's
pretty fluff and lost she has no idea what's going
on and she doesn't do good by herself
she needs her buddies yeah you're my little girl
all right you guys we love you thank you for being
here thank you for everything stay positive dream big
and we will see you again soon and yes we will
find a friend for eleanor you can't be alone can't
be gone to the snow dogs with only one dog love you
guys