What a wonderful ending ... and a faithful friend to 'snuggle' with (and don't kid yourself -- they DO understand, they KNOW what's going on). What a wonderful couple of days. What great memories and great pictures.
When the body fully relaxes when they pass, all sorts of things can happen like that. When we helped Ms. Socks over the Bridge (dumped on us when she was 10 1/2 with mega heartworm "she'll only live a month - can she stay in your kitchen?" -- I treated her the 'slow way' but after a year got a clear occult re heartworm, but it left her heart/lungs pretty bad -- but she had 6 1/2 more GOOD years with us, became a certified therapy dog and everything).
Because of the drugs she took for the heart (Lasix - just like people) it made her completely incontinent coupled with the cancer she had in her late years. She wore bit@hes britches with human continence pads in them the whole 6 1/2 years she was with us. She always TRIED to go outside tho. It bothered her that she couldn't "hold it" but she'd do it as much as possible and always did the bulk of it outside. When she'd get nervouse and know she was leaking a lot she'd 'cough' (from nerves) and then we knew she had to go out.
The day we helped her over the Bridge, I brought licorice to the vets with me -- she loved licorice more than anything. She felt like crap but she WANTED licorice. She had half a package of Switzer's black licorice. YUM. I brought her a new ball -- she couldn't chase it but she gummed it and rolled it back and forth to me -- 'THANKS!' -- she loved the idea of it and you *know* there is NUFFIN better than the taste of a new ball don'tch??
But when she went over the Bridge (completely asleep and looking forward to being out of pain) she was completely quiet. But when the tech came in to help the vet pick her up -- she voided probably a PINT of urine. WE all laughed.
I said to the Vet "How appropriate. Socks would have told you it really WOULD be Heaven -- cos she didn't have to go over that Bridge full and trying to hold it!! So... she left "Lake Socks" in her wake."
Sad .. yes ... and lordy we missed her. BUT it was truly comforting to me -- in a life that was brave but hard, it was like the least life could do for her was let her go over in comfort withOUT a full bladder.
Maybe Maxie "blew a raspberry" at his "demons" as he left seizures behind and raced over that Bridge to PLAY FREE!!!
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
