Archive for April 26th, 2008

Fading away

It doesn’t look like Latte has a lot of time left. For the first day or two after the diagnosis she was doing okay. While she could not stand, she was hungry and relatively perky. The vitamins and other supplements probably helped give her a boost. But over the last 24 hours the light has started to fade from her eyes. She is as comfortable as we can make her, and she still eats (though I have not seen her chew her cud in a few days).

On Monday I will take her into the vet to be euthanized. Afterwards we will do a post mortem examination to see if we can learn anything from her death. A sad time. Poor little Enfield is going to lose his mother. He has been on a bottle since birth, as Latte never could provide enough for him. I will wean him over the next month.