Emma
We got Emma before we moved to our ranch at a county animal shelter. We had first gone in to see a small non-shedding dog. We picked one out but sadly the dog died a few days later at the shelter due to an illness. So we went back to the shelter to look for another dog, and there was Emma, a blue tick coon hound, at the back of her cage shaking. Her big, sad eyes pulled at our heart strings, so we adopted her at an approximate 3 years old. When we got her home she was extremely nervous of large men with deep voices which made us believe she was beaten by a man before ending up at the shelter. She also would not bark when we first got her, maybe because she thought she would get in trouble, but who knows. Then when we finally purchased our ranch she had grown out of her nervousness and was comfortable in her own skin. She finally showed her true personality when she was out on our 50 acres of rolling green hills. She was a tue hound dog. She spent her days running around, sniffing out creatures, and napping in the living room.
At 12 years old in the middle of winter Emma was outside for a bathroom break when she slipped on the ice and couldn't get up. That incident presented many problems for her next year, Her joints were stiff, her muscles were worn, and her back legs didn't function the way they should have. I think we all feel bad about the incident and we feel like we should have been there quicker to help her but sadly we can't take it back and do it all again. At first Emma seemed to be doing okay but throughout the next year she continued to get worse and worse. Then she could no longer walk around on her own, and wasn't happy at all. We decided to put her down in the summer of 2012 at 13 years old. She lived a good life with us and has left her heart and soul on every inch of ground. We all think about her practically every day, and we will never find a dog aas intelligent, unique, and amazing as Emma was.
At 12 years old in the middle of winter Emma was outside for a bathroom break when she slipped on the ice and couldn't get up. That incident presented many problems for her next year, Her joints were stiff, her muscles were worn, and her back legs didn't function the way they should have. I think we all feel bad about the incident and we feel like we should have been there quicker to help her but sadly we can't take it back and do it all again. At first Emma seemed to be doing okay but throughout the next year she continued to get worse and worse. Then she could no longer walk around on her own, and wasn't happy at all. We decided to put her down in the summer of 2012 at 13 years old. She lived a good life with us and has left her heart and soul on every inch of ground. We all think about her practically every day, and we will never find a dog aas intelligent, unique, and amazing as Emma was.