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Her wings were ready - My heart was not

23/05/2021

I am heartbroken to say that I lost my bestest friend in the whole world on the 17th april 2021.
My beautiful Coco has left me and has found a new home in heaven... 

RIP COKEY

2014 - 2021

(A SHORT POEM I WROTE)

Dear Coco
The days seem long without you - 
My heart aches with pain - 
I hate waking up on mornings - 
Not to see your face.

My MISS-COKEY-SMOKEY-ANNIE-MISSY,
Is the first thing I would say -
And you would get excited - 
I miss how we used to play

The house has lost its sparkle - 
I've lost my best friend -
But I shall hold you in my heart - 
Until the very end ...

And now I'm not scared of heaven Because I cant wait to see,
That lovely orange / white - tipped tail,
Wagging back at me! 


I love you  - my soul mate 
Forever and always 
Mommy

xxx

' Our home has lost a princess
whilst heaven has gained an angel '

Coco was my favourite and I'm not ashamed to say that! she really truly was my best friend.. just having her around cheered me up she was always there for me 100% loyal and protected me  always. I couldn't possibly thank her enough for the love and support she has gave me through all these years, you say humans are the ones that look after their dogs but to be honest I think it was the other was around - I feel so lost without her!

I know I will always love and miss my girl until the day I meet her agin in heaven.
she's a beautiful soul I'm so honoured that I got to spend all these years with her. 
She left us with memories that we shall NEVER forget - such as the evening she jumped IN through our dining room window and took the whole pane of glass with her! I heard a loud crash I thought somebody had threw a brick at our window then on inspection I found it was coco who had actually jumped in through the closed glass window! perhaps there were fireworks outside, she hated fireworks! such a big girl but would tremble head to tail at the sound of a firework!

She used to do such comical things such as help her self to the kitchen bin and get the top of the lid stuck round her head and have to wait for it to be removed! she also had a thing of helping herself to anything she wanted from the laundry bag just so she could be comfortable - she would even come into the bedroom and try to sneak the bedsheets off the bed sometimes lol.


When she used to pick something up she would only use her very front teeth as if she didn't want to hurt it lol! it was comical when she would play tug - of - war with shadow with a rope toy and he would have a grip with his entire mouth, but she would only be clinging on by her little front teeth and win him lol.


I miss all of her funny ways , she used to love music as well and would get wiggle and dance with you when you sang to her lol. bless her!

She has a lovely white marking on the very tip of her tail, according to KC standards this is fault , but I don't care what they think I adore this special marking it was only a small flash but I loved it! 


( The night after coco passed away the craziest coincidence happened - there was paint in the bathroom - shadow was in the hallway he never went in the bathroom but still managed to dip his tail and literally only the tip of his tail nowhere else on his body at all - right in the paint so he had a white tipped tail! we are 100percent sure this was a sign from Coco!)

Coco was sadly diagnosed with cancer in October 2020, it was unoperatable. after seeing specialists having x-rays and being told no more could be done, days of crying, sleepless nights and hours of research - I went on a crazy mission to self treat her with an array of herbal medications, I will explain this in more detail in a separate post - but I honestly can tell you the treatment worked! a few days in and there where obvious improvements , after a month it was like a new Coco, I didn't have to cry for her anymore because she was so happy it made the whole experience sooo much easier than what could have happened if I just put her on vet meds and let her deteriorate without fighting at all!  it stopped the sickness that had been occurring prior to her diagnosis, it stopped the pain she was so playful like a puppy again playing all of the time when previously to the medication she had been sleeping a lot ! it was so amazing to see that she was feeling so good!  7 months of playful happy cokey - I didn't even need the painkillers from the vets!!


I wish my treatment could have brought us years longer together, but I take comfort in the fact that it helped her for the time we had. Coco was eating, playing - doing all the things she would normally do right up until the day she passed away, peacefully at home - whilst napping on the 17th April 2021. almost 7 months after the initial diagnosis. 

Coco had bone cancer it was in her hip but x-rays showed it may have even spread to her lungs (  no stress was obvious to the lungs at all through the course of my treatment)


My poor baby also suffered from hip dysplasia to both hips that was also shown in the x-rays 
plus she had arthritis that was intensified by a crucial ligament injury that she got two years earlier. ( chasing a cat ) 

Coco always had a massive prey drive and wanted to chase anything that moved - apologise to next doors dog. There have been many lucky cats and birds over the years that where just too fast for her!

It seems cokey did seem to have it all bless her - its always the was isn't it? she was such a beautiful, loving, calm dog yet seemed to get punished by having every illness going! that's without mentioning the hysterectomy she had to have at 12months old because of possible pyometra ( a serious womb infection in dogs ) and the spay incontinence caused by the operation that troubled her for the rest of her life , but with the treatments I gave her EVERYTHING improved, her arthritis was vastly improved, she really was like a puppy again full of energy , She seemed so happy and pain - free . it was wonderful. 


herbal treatments can work so well alone or alongside your prescription medications there are even holistic veterinary centres in the UK so don't take no for answer , try everything you can, research everything you can. you may be pleasantly surprised with the results you get.

 I shall document this further at a later date but here brief overview are some of the things I used .. 

Home cooked food , turkey, beef, fish , chicken , scrambled egg, steamed veg, sweet potato etc - minimal dogfood , although I didn't really stop her if she went and removed the lid from the dogfood bin to help herself as she had a thing for doing this sometimes aswell lol!
she liked to guard the dog food bin from shadow as it is a storage bin under my stairs and she would lie in the hall there - if shadow got too close to it , she would growl at him lol. 

food is your best medicine! I believe that 100 percent, I used ORGANIC meat and veggies whenever I could get them, minimising the use of commercial dogfood its full of toxic fillers but I have to keep some around because of the amount of dogs and the time/money consuming issues , my dogs have always been used to having 'human food' as an addition but when coco got ill i put so much effort into trying to make her better that I didn't care how much time it took or if it cost more money it was worth every minute , I would do it all again if I could have the chance.

I tried to follow something called the FEED THE DOG STAVE THE CANCER principle that I found online that basically teaches you the eliminate most carbs when possible, as carbs feed cancer cells, it was so hard trying to fight the cancer cachexia because I didn't stop her having all the things she liked ALL of the time but I did try hard to feed her well and it made a huge difference.

fyi cachexia is weight loss caused by cancer - cancer cachexia is different to other weight loss - it deteriorates the muscle away BEFORE the body fat


Organic turmeric capsules

( if your dog has cancer or arthritis please get some - organic turmeric capsules for dogs )

Robert McDowell herbal treatments 
bone cancer treatment
maritime pine bark extract

( I had to wait 3 weeks for this to come from Australia but its an excellent company)

CBD oil 
(stops the sickness)

shitake mushroom powder ..


more recently ..

Pet wellbeing's life gold for dogs 

( I didn't use the Robert McDowell and the life gold together, I only swapped to pet wellbeing's life gold for dogs AFTER I had used up all of my Mc'Dowell products)

HOPEFULLY these treatments can help another dog the way they helped Coco. 


Rest in peace my angel

Love you Always 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

(my partner always used to call coco 'princess' 
and she really loved it lol she used to get all excited when she was called 'princess' it was so cute)

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