Asa subscriber to Your Dog and reading through the readers’ letters, I just thought I’d ask if any readers could offer me some advice on my 13-year-old rescue dog, Phoebe, who I think is grieving, like us, following the death of my other rescue dog, Billy, six weeks ago. Billy developed terminal pancreatitis, and within a week he was taken ill and then gone.
I’ve had Phoebe since she was two years old. She was not treated very well before we got her, so she has never been good with lots of other dogs or men. It took about 18 months to get her to trust us. I had Billy from 12 weeks old and I was his fifth owner. He was born in a puppy farm in Ireland.