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Just five days after bringing home their foster dog Lenny,Sir Patrick Stewartand his wife shared the sad news that the canine had died.
“It breaks my heart to have to share this news—we eased our sweet boy Lenny over the Rainbow Bridge yesterday. There’s a reason folks use this euphemism… I didn’t ‘put him down’. I lifted him up out of his pain, I let him go, and I’ll hold his sweet spirit in my heart,” Stewart’s wife Sunny Ozellwrotein an emotional post, which she shared alongside a picture of Stewart and Lenny cuddling up together.
After bringing Lenny into the veterinarian on Monday for what was initially believed to be “kennel cough,” a kind of upper respiratory infection, Stewart and Ozell learned the heartbreaking news that the 10-year-old pup had contracted pneumonia.
Opening up about the many health problems Lenny faced, Ozell wrote that “there were signs of bowel obstruction, a heart murmur, and his blood pressure was haywire.”
“In short, he was undergoing multi-system failure. If Lenny had lived the life he deserved, he may have been strong enough to endure pneumonia,” she continued, explaining that unfortunately, Lenny had lived in difficult conditions prior to his rescue.
Stewart’s wife went on to describe Lenny’s emotional final moments before they made the difficult choice to put him down.
“At about 4:30 P.M. yesterday, Lenny’s doctor called me to let me know he believed it was time to let our sweet pup go. Thanks to LA traffic, I arrived at the hospital at about 5:10 P.M. I got down on the floor of Lenny’s space, and met his sweet old cataracts gaze. I kissed his big gorgeous mocha noggin, scratched softly behind his ears, and stroked his velvet snoot. I told him over and over how loved he was, and I held his paw,” she wrote.
Stewart and Ozell had
Just five days after bringing home their foster dog Lenny,Sir Patrick Stewartand his wife shared the heartbreaking news that the canine had died.
Stewart and Ozell had fostered Lenny from Los Angeles-based dog rescueWags and Walks, which has helped stars includingParis JacksonandTom Brady.
Stewart, who was at therescue’s annual galalast year, previously fostered anadorable pit bull named Gingeras well as apocket pit bull named Emmathrough the organization.
source: people.com
