11/14/2025
💙🐾💙We had to say goodbye to Henry💙🐾💙
Henry we tried so hard…
Henry quit eating in December 2024.
Since then we have been back and forth to Caremore veterinary for ultrasounds, blood work, etc. we couldn’t find anything wrong.
To specialist said blood work was fine. They gave prednisone to entice him to eat. I knew it would just be to buy him some time, because something was still going on.
Last week he was at the vet for blood work, still normal. Then this week his stomach got very big; I took him to care more yesterday, X-ray, blood work this time showed he had Hemangiosarcoma.
It was hoped that surgery would be able to remove it because X-rays didn’t show that the cancer had spread. He was scheduled for surgery right away for this morning….
We cooked steak for him last night to be prepared for his big day today; it was in fact his last meal.
The last couple weeks Henry was allowed to eat whatever he would, he loved chicken nuggets, chicken, vegetables and rice so that’s what he got.
I knew it would be his time some day, maybe sooner than later but I didn’t expect it this soon.
I was at work when the vet called me to say, it had spread to his liver and beyond…
Angie went in to say goodbye to him 😢. It was too soon.
Henry was rescued on October 21, 2017. He had been hit by a car and left to die on the side of the road in South Augusta.
I saw the post from Dani Douglas on Facebook, nobody was coming for him.
I was afraid for him because he was a pit. I went, I wrapped him in a blanket, I took him home. He never once showed any sign of aggression….
He was intact, heartworm positive…. Injured…
I slept with him on the floor many nights, got him neutered, treated the heartworms.
I decided to keep him because I thought he would have furyher health issues later in life because of the car accident.
I wasn’t even a licensed rescue yet, he was the best dog, the best pit bull ever!
He was so sweet but also guarded my house.
We had such good times together.
I remember the first time I ever left him home with the Chihuahuas, I didn’t know to or even have a crate… I looked at the camera at home, he was just sitting right at the door waiting for me…
Then when Angie would brush Benji’s hair, he would get so jealous and want to be brushed too. Angie would have to stop and pretend to brush him too!
I was busy at work today, I was staying strong for Henry, I know he wouldn’t want me to be sad as he was always happy with a smile on his face.
I came home without Henry meeting me at the gate….
I know he is running free now in the sky, 9 years I had him meeting me at the gate… but it wasn’t long enough. Go find Goldy, Skelton, Tilly…
I miss my Henry….
Until we meet again son.
Special thank you’s go out to Care More Animal Hospital, Dr Gross and his team, Henry’s vet of nine years.
Henry was neutered, recievied his heartworm treatment there as well as all of his other vet care routine and otherwise.
Dr Gross was too good to Henry.
They have known me since well before I became rescue.
Everyone there is so nice to us and we appreciate them.
