This is our newest puppy, Miss Ivy, we rescued her last year and she's honestly been the BEST addition! The shelter said they think she's pit-aussie-gsd mix 🥰

Has anyone seen this before ?

My 7 y/o pittie girl just passed away today around 4pm and I feel so broken and hurt. We had her since she was 3 months from a rescue and she’s just the greatest and most amazing living being to have come into our lives. My family has 3 dogs and she’s the youngest out of the 3. We have a 16 y/o chihuahua terrier mix and an 11 y/o beagle terrier mix. We all love them to death, but this one hurts a lot because she was the youngest out of them and it seems so unfair she didn’t get to live her life from baby to grandma age.

Sometime last week she suddenly fell ill and we were unsure what was going on. She didn’t want to eat (which she so loves to do), breathing was rapid and loud, couldn’t get up to greet up (which she LOVED to do, she was such a lover baby never fighting or harming us), and just had 0 energy. I don’t live with my family anymore so I didn’t notice her being sick since I wasn’t present to witness the change, but my family did, so they took her to the vet and I guess they did an X-ray on her for thorough check and we found out she had lung cancer. We were all in shock because she didn’t show ANY signs of being sick at all. She was always so happy, playful, loving, caring, and just truly such a big baby (I mean that in a good way). The vet told us they’ll give us the full diagnosis after the weekend. So our family kept our hopes up as the vet said “it’s a slight chance it may be a fungal infection, but don’t get your hopes up.” We really hoped it was not cancer and just something fungal, literally praying (at least I was). This past Monday we got the official results and it was an advanced stage lung cancer and she became severely anemic, and there was nothing we can do but to give her comfort and love. My heart broke… I just felt so numb that every conversation I encountered in the outside world, it was just mumble and gibberish in my ears/eyes like in tv shows and movies. I just couldn’t believe in everything I’m hearing like what?! I just saw her not too long ago (literally earlier last week) before she got sick and she was running around and cuddling with me….. I have visited her constantly to check on her since then and she couldn’t do anything and started losing weight rapidly since she got sick. She didn’t even have the energy to go use the restroom to the point where she just poops and pees on herself, she completely stopped eating and drinking water. The beagle terrier mix (name is Riley) has been cuddling with her and just wouldn’t leave her side. The oldest (sparky) didn’t care because he’s your typical old cranky grandpa that doesn’t care about anyone or anything (he’s old so we understood).

I was at work today and literally at 1:27pm my mom calls me but she hung up quickly. I call her back and she tells me it was an accident, and I ask her how Ivy (the pit bull/baby) was doing and she says “can’t tell you at work, we’ll talk about it when you come home.” I thought “what in the hell???” So I immediately texted my sister asking her how Ivy was doing but she doesn’t text back (she’s out hanging out with her boyfriend, she tells me later on). I was thinking about that for a few hours until my sister calls me today at 4:13pm (she said she arrived at the house right before Ivy passes). When I saw her calling I took a long pause before answering because I just knew in my heart, I knew something happened and I tried to prepare myself for this conversation. I answered the call and it’s my sister crying and that broke me because I knew what it was about. I didn’t initially understand what she said but I knew what it was about because she said “Ivy” and just crying and crying. I told her “it’s okay, I’ll be home… wait for me.” I broke down at work after that call. Couldn’t stop crying and sobbing like a little kid crying her eyes out. My coworkers told me to go home and be with my family since they were aware of what was going on, my manager gave me time off instantly. I just started sobbing and sobbing. My heart aches so much. I’m crying as I’m typing this. As I get home, I asked my mom what happened and she told me how she was hanging out with Ivy and noticed she had to go use the restroom. So my mom told her “I’ll be back baby, I will get the pad so that you can go pee mama…. I’ll be back” (my sister confirms everything). And as my mom sat the pad for her, she had her rest on my mom’s lap and my mom said “go pee my girl, you can go, mommy won’t be mad it’s okay.” When my mom said that to her she peed out just blood and my dog did a loud cough and what sounded like taking her last breath with her legs stretching and my mom automatically knew. She said that Ivy died in her arms and it broke my mom also. My mom, sister, and I cried for my dog together. We just loved her so dearly and it pains us knowing that she was taken away from us too soon and she really didn’t get to live her life to the fullest. But I’m so glad she passed with my mom comforting her. We were trying to get her to get euthanized after her finding out her lung cancer was an actual diagnosis, but she suddenly passed.

I’m so hurt that this was so sudden because I just saw her last week and she didn’t show ANY signs of being sick. I feel so guilty knowing she was sick for who knows how long and we didn’t even catch it earlier because she was just so vibrant and full of life. I feel like we failed her, that I failed her. All I want to do is just hug her and tell her I will always love her just one last time. I want her to visit me in my dreams and I get to play with her one last time. This is my first dog loss I have ever experienced and I can’t believe it just happened so quickly. Riley (second oldest beagle) literally stopped eating the moment he realized Ivy was about to pass (according to my mom and sister) and they think he caught a psychotic break just going ballistics running around the house nonstop, breathing heavily (he does this when he hears fireworks or anything that scares him), and whining like crazy. When I got home, I saw he just didn’t want to eat at all, not even human food. I would like to know how does one move past this. I don’t want to hear “she’s not suffering anymore”, because even though I know that’s true, it hurts me so much because she was suffering and no matter what we did to help/comfort her, she was just in constant pain and we literally couldn’t do anything about it. Please anything helps, thank you all.

TLDR: my youngest pitbull (7y/o) passes away and my family doesn’t know how to cope with this huge loss.

Pardon the mess, but someone got her pajamas today and wanted to show off! Our little pibble mix Aoife, after seeing Merryweather in pajamas insisted on wearing them as well, but insisted no photos!

He’s not a fan of this vest but I think it compliments everything about him 🤣

I just think she is so pretty. I love seeing this face everyday.

Has got to give...hope all your pitties are warm while we wait for the winter Solstice.

My boy Morrissey napping at Grandma’s house!!

Pizza box on the floor and he didn’t even eat this piece, he carried it around like it was his emotional support slice🤦🏻‍♀️

So I was playfighting with my Pit Bull/Boxer mix last night. We do that regularly and we have boundaries that never get crossed. Well, I laid on my back to make myself vulnerable and she really scratched me in my face and and it left some cuts. She has never done anything like that before and right away she could tell it hurt and disengaged and was showing signs of submission and sorrow.

My questions are (1), why she do something like this when it felt like she was trying to hurt me; (2) do pitties, or other dogs, know when they went overboard while playing and hurt their owners; and (3) have you ever had your pittie apologize to you?