My name is Majena Murguia. We adopted our boxer Cloe (previously named Lara) in the summer of '03 at the Staples Center adoption Fair.
We were told Cloe was between 4 and 6 years old when we adopted her, so I estimate that she is about 9 now. In the early part of 2005, she began to go blind. She adapted well. We just made sure that everything was put back the way she remembered. She always knew where she was going. She knew where she could run and jump in the open area of our yard, just as she had done when she could see. And I swore she still watched me when I went across the street to visit my sister - head pointed in my direction, vigilantly awaiting my return . . . Just in the last week she seemed out of place, bumping into things she always knew to avoid.
Beginning Tuesday night (5/23) Cloe began having seizures. After each episode, she would struggle for breath. It was a painful sight. When she regained composure, she began circling to the left, repeatedly. The Vet said she was experiencing Grand mal seizures, and the circling was evidence of a tumor on the right side of her brain.
I had to sign her life away - the life that brought so much joy to me, my family and our daughter. I stayed with her till the very end, she had her last seizure right there in the Vet's office.
I haven't told our daughter Amorette, yet. I was pregnant with her when my husband and I adopted Cloe into our family. She and Cloe have become the best of buddies. Since Amorette was a baby, Cloe has loved and protected her like she was her own child. If Cloe and Amorette were out in the yard together, I never had to worry.
Actually we weren't the only ones who loved Cloe. She was popular with many of our neighbors, who would purposely take walks to stop by and visit with her.
She will be missed by so many.
& baby to be (due in Nov.)
