We just found out that our Westie of 13 years has Lupus, and an advanced case at that! I'd only barely heard of this disease yesterday. Today I got to meet it front and center.
The smiling face at the right is the spritely, lively dog of a few years ago. Since then, his life has changed dramatically with the loss of his longtime faithful companion female westie, the addition of 2 bigger dogs, and finally our baby daughter who is now 2 years old.
Over that time, he's gone from center of our lives to actually being treated as a dog with the others. We barely noticed when his skin started to discolor on his nose. He's a very active dog, sometimes getting into it with the other dogs and other times digging and tunneling like his ancestors. It went downhill from there.
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