Our sweety passed peacefully yesterday afternoon...he was declining all day, lost feeling in his back legs so couldn't walk. he had difficulty breathing as the day went on, and he became cyanotic (lack of oxygen).
By the time we took him in, his eyelids and tongue were without color, and he was panting. When the doc saw him, and heard what we'd observed, he said he probably had internal bleeding or threw a clot.
We made the decision to end his misery, and pet him and said goodbye as he slipped away.
I used to be able to get him to sleep, almost hypnotically, by moving my hands up and down gently in front of his face and saying, "Go to sleep..." over and over until he laid his head down and closed his eyes.
This was the last thing I did as he slipped away...

Our hearts are broken...12 years of drool, fur all over us, and joy...the happy memories are already flooding my head, yet my eyes are still wet...