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Rosco 'Baby' Tarrant - The best dog ever. 29/09/06 - 14/03/08 Rosco Baby Rosco baby, my sweet little boy, You filled my life with love and joy, A short life you lived, My poorly little man, Such a cruel twist of fate, No more paw in my hand. You came to us so small, But your trust in us all, Brought your character out, My funny little man, I was blessed every day, No more paw in my hand. We all love you so dear, Hope to you that was clear, Every day you were with us, My special little man, No other can replace, No more paw in my hand. With your long gangly legs, And your little pinhead! Aunty Kathy was joking! My handsome little man, For to me you were perfect, No more paw in my hand. There’s a hole in my heart, From the day you did part, From your lovely big bed, My cosy little man, The hole will not close, No more paw in my hand. A safe journey to you, As the bridge calls you through, And you’re now free from pain, My brave little man, Many tears they will fall, I’ll miss your paw in my hand. (by Emma Tarrant)

The vet has said today that Rosco's heart is still not beatin right and he has "weeks or months rather than years" left, he has now got added health problems including his liver and has anemia too. he is on a pasta, rice and chicken diet. He will spend the remaining days/weeks being loved and cuddled so much he will know that he can not get a better life than he has with us

Rosco's leukemia is secondary to a major heart condition - his aorta is not functioning properly and because he is now almost fully grown it is taking it's toll, this is not good for a dog of only 16 months old, the vet has taken him off the steroids and now has to concentrate on his heart, he is on 2 lots of tablets, vetedin and digoxin, and in back in on friday at 10 am. ithe vet said "i'm sorry but this is not a good prognosis" so i asked how long? she said that she couldn't give me an answer to that because he will either respond to the treatment or not respond but the heart condition along with the leukemia is not a good combination.

run free Max i'm so sorry to hear of your loss

so sorry to hear this, R.I.P Dino

hugs and healing thoughts for you all. do consider the hydrotherapy i know of a few dogs that have benefitted hugely from this including a 12 stone saint bernard!!

at the moment Rosco isn't suffering, he is unaware that he is poorly so life will remain positive and happy for him, it's hard to think he is so ill when he doesn't look ill anyway. The moment he starts to suffer with it will be the time to walk him to the bridge, but i can't think about that right now.

Thankyou hun, That was much like our Rosco, he was very lathargic, not eating really didn't have the energy that he normally had on his walkies, he then lost approx 8kg in 3-4 days which is when i got him into the vets right away, the vet thought it was a chest infection or something similar that hadn't come out yet, put him on anti-b's for the weekend and had to go back on the monday where Rosco was a lot worse, he had lost 6 months worth of weight gain (which was a lot as he was rescued in a very bad way and was being slowly built up to a nice weight) anyway - they took his bloods on monday and we went back in on thursday expecting to be told he has an infection of some sort - but unfortunately we were told the bad news. I have already discussed chemo with the vet and the vet said it would not cure Rosco and he hasn't the weight and strength behind him to get through the treatment, it would merely prolong his agony, so we went for another course of treatment, the injection has done him wonders and he has 6 tablets to take twice a day and they are working really well - which is a great sign that he has reacted so well to them, hopefully our boy will be with us for a year or more but i will wait to hear how we get on friday before i get my hopes up.

i am pleased to say that Rosco has found his appetite today and has eaten a normal sized meal, i am really chuffed

Thankyou for the links and support. I will know much more on friday after he has been in for the day and had his x-rays and further tests to see exactly how far it has gone, Rosco was given a jab at the vets and steroids for this week to see if he perks up on them, i was told if he didn't perk up with them then he has a few months left but if he showed good signs then possibly a year or more, he has perked up a bit since the jab and steroids and he has eaten a little too which is a great sign. I'll update you on Friday.

would you be king enough to send some healing thoughts for our lovely handsome rescued Saint Bernard boy - Rosco - he is 15 months old and has just been diagnosed with Leukemia - we are totally devastated

Some photo's of my boy - Rosco

That would be lovely hun, thankyou so much

yeah my Saint Bernard Rosco - he is only 15 months old

Anybody had any experience with this?