I truly believe this statement whole heartedly!
This weekend we had to say “see you later” to our Chubbs! I say that because I do not like good-byes. We have had Chubbs for 6 years and poor guy he has had a rough 6 years.
I swear there aren’t very many people that truly understand when I say my pups are like my kids. Now don’t get me wrong O comes before anything in this whole world.
Chubbs story:
I remember the day I brought him home. M was hesitant but what can I say he is a huge push over and is easily persuaded.
My baby sitter at the time told me her friend had 1 more black lab pup. I got butterflies bc I am a softy for puppies, especially labs.
So I gave her a call and told her I was on my way. When I got to her house the mother was a chocolate lab and her comes this huge massive FAT black blob. I knew then he was mine he came pouncing in. They asked $250 and said he was the runt of the litter, Seriously I said I would have loved to seen the rest. So of course I loaded his fat butt up into my van and headed home.
We spent the rest of the night trying to figure out what the heck we were going to name this massive beast with HUGE paws. M said he is so fat and “Chubby” and that is where the name was born.
Poor Chubbs truly lived up to his name. He just kept growing and growing. when he was less than a year the problems started, his growing plates in his shoulders were growing too fast and causing him a lot of pain. There were a few times we had to take him in and gets some pain shots and steroids, which in turn made him grow bigger.
By the time he was two he had been on so many steroids he already weight 143. Seriously he was massive. He was much harder to potty train than Harley and a whole lot lazier. but in turn he was my dog, and slept in the bedroom with me every night. When I say let’s go to bed he hobbled in and slept in the foot of our bed.
Well last Wednesday I let all the dogs (yes 3 crazy huge labs) out to play and he was fine. After that I noticed that he was throwing up and not eating. He had been losing weight but it is so hard to tell when u see them everyday. I then noticed he wasn’t eating and he couldn’t keep water down. I let him in Friday and he just collapsed in my lap. I tried to give him his heart guard wormer but he wouldn’t touch it. I tried food with milk, treats everything, I then knew it was serious. He NEVER turns down food.
I feel awful but I could not afford to take him in to the vet bc I have too many bills and no left over money. So I made the decision to let nature run it’s course. All day Saturday I tried to make him comfortable and tried getting fluids in him with a dropper but it just wasn’t working. M was done working at like 4ish and I asked him to come home for the night bc I didn’t think he was going to make it and needed help burying him. He was not breathing good, O and I were bawling like babies and I begged him just to give up.
He is such a fighter. He started losing all control over his bodily functions but M was almost home. My mother in law and Aunt K came down to sit with me bc I was a mess. We kept saying that he was waiting for M to come home.
We were so right M got home and he rolled over on his side, ALL of us were a wreck and he finally took his last breath. It was so hard I was sobbing like a HUGE baby. But he is not in pain any more.
M’s mom taught O a big lesson “DOG” spelled backwards is “GOD”.
Dog’s truly are a mans BEST friend. I am still in denial today that he is really gone. 
Here are a few pics of my boy, you will truly be missed and “See you Later Big Guy”!
Here is my boy the very last night he was with us. I was trying to bribe him with a treat but it did no good.
RIP Chubber Bubs mamma misses you tons. I will never forget you.
Hope everyone has a great week. It is a busy one for me, O has soccer practice and I have doctor appointments, WW meeting and family night and My big girl turn’s 7 and her sleepover is next weekend.
Signing off
Jeanna
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