Did he have an allergic reaction to vaccinations? If dog, Parvo? Or a congenital heart disease or something? What happened to Charley? He sure was young.
Sorry for all of your losses. I'll try to get pics of my beloved dogs that I have lost in the past.
The two hardest losses were my two shar-pei. Callie died at the age of 9 due to an infection and the antibiotics she was on at the time weren't working. She went into kidney failure.
Poor Haley died at the young age of 3 when that dog food was taken off the market because it was causing kidney failure ( the end of 06 and beginning of 07). She died before they realized it was an epidemic or possible cause.
Had a necropsy done on her to see if it was a hereditary condition but didn't find any hereditary causes responsible for her death.
The necropsy was done a little over a week before the news hit the stands and she was already buried so I didn't want exhume her body to find out if tainted dog food was the caused of her death. She was my only dog getting canned food mixed in her dry food at that time. The brand I was feeding her was on the list recalled. No other explanation though.... :'(
RIP my beloved girls!
I have two dogs here now that are getting up in age and am not looking forward to going through that again. I guess it's part of life for us animal lovers... :-/