Thank you so much everyone for your kind words. Dewey is still with us right now, but on Thurs we are going to put him to rest. We wanted a day where both Alexa and I didn't have to work so we could both be there with him. Right now he just sleeps all day, but when he does wake up he seems happy that we are there.

We just keep hoping that it's wrong and that when we wake up in the morning he's going to be all better. But we know that isn't going to happen. It's hard to look at him without crying. I didn't even get to know him. He's been sick almost the whole time we've had him. We never got to go to the park or play fetch outside or do any of those things.

There is also so much guilt, I feel horrible because I'm the one that wanted him and now Alexa has to also feel the heartache. Alexa feels guilt because she knew getting him would make me happy and now I just feel hurt.

We've called the shelter to let them know. They told us that they have had a very bad strain of kennel cough, however they can't afford to do bloodwork on them. If they look really ill then the animal will be put down. I'm worried that someone else will have to go through what I did. I know these dogs don't have kennel cough, it's something much worse. I don't want people to have false hope like I did. We kept thinking that he was going to get better, he was just having a hard time fighting it because he was so underweight. Now we know that wasn't the problem.