this stinks

[edog92]

my 8 year old lab was playing  with another dog happy as can be. when that dog left i dog layed down looking out the door we thought she was just said.an hour later she just stayed there i got her food she didn't eat. finally i got here up to go to bed. she thru up acouple of time  finally we all fell a sleep at midnight. when we woke up she had passed away and only 8 perfectly healthy we thought. what could of happened.

[veryworriedmomdad]

I am sooooo sorry for your loss.  I agree with ginger.  It is painful now and probably always well be.  There's not aday goes by I do not think about my two girls, Abby and Sami who have gone over the Rainbow Bridge.  Abby was 12 years old when she passed from cancer.  It was 6 weeks of pure hell, not only on her but on us!! Sami was 10 1/2 when she passed from renial kidney failure.  She was diagnoised a year and half, and we watched her go from 45-50 lbs, down to maybe 15-18lbs.  While both were happy to be with us until the very last moment, putting them down was the hardest thing I ever had to do.  I prayed every night that Sami would just go peacefully in her sleep.  Never happened.  Taking that long trip to the vet and knowing that was the last thing they remember haunts me to the core.  I only wish both could have gone in their sleep, at home with everyone they loved.  

Nobody can ever be prepared for their pets death, no matter if its suddenly or if its a long drawn out process.  It's like losing a piece of your soul when they go.  It does get easier with time!!  Just always know they are in a better place, happy, whole, and playing with other dogs!!!!

My heart goes out to you and your family....

[skydnsr]

Another possibility is hemangiosarcoma of the spleen.  It is not unheard of for a seemingly healthy, happy dog to develop a tumor of this type without the owner's having any reason to suspect anything.  It is a highly vascular type of tumor; in other words, it contains a lot of blood vessels.  The tumor gets bigger and bigger, and then one day -- typically when the dog is playing -- the tumor ruptures, and then the dog bleeds to death internally.  I have a friend whose dog this happened to.  It is a type of cancer that typically affects medium-sized  or larger sized, middle-aged dogs.  An eight year-old lab would fit the profile.  It is not a painful death.  The animal simply feels tired and goes to sleep and does not wake up.  There is nothing that an owner could have done to prevent it.  I am so sorry.  

[edog92]

thanks for your kind words

[ginger899]

I'm really sorry your dog died, and so suddenly like this. It is always so sad to lose a dog, but when you are left with unanswered questions, it's harder.
There's really only one way to find out what happened, that's to get a necropsy (an autopsy for animals)
But you may not feel like doing that. The shock is bad enough in itself and you may not want to go through all that as well.

I have no idea what could have happened. It could have been her heart....it could have been a sudden brain hemorrage. (I knew a really fit healthy woman in her 30's who ate healthily, didn't smoke, didn't drink. And she suddenly died of a sub arachnoid hemorrage) Something similar could have happened to your dog.

There's only one consolation and that is she was not sick for long. She didn't have to endure a long illness, or constant vet visits, or pain. And she died in the comfort and security of her family. No doubt at the end she just fell asleep and that's all she knew.