Hi guys,

So some of you might have seen me talk about it in chat when I said my dog wasn't eating properly, and hadn't been eating properly since Thursday. She had been on medication and all that, and when she was still not eating today, I took her to the vet again. After a quick checkup and a blood test, it turns out she has chronic kidney failure, which has really come as a shock since she normally seems so healthy. 

My dog is essentially my world, so the fact that she's out of the house now for three days while on an iv-drip is pretty shattering. She's only seven years old, so you'd want to see her in better health than this, as organ failure is never something to be applauded. 

So while I hope she will be back home in three days, there is no guarantee that the procedure will have the desired effect, and since she refuses to eat, there is still a very real and serious threat to her life going on. If it came to it, I honestly wouldn't know what to do with myself and have been more or less fighting the urge to just keel over and die repeatedly throughout the day. As such, I don't feel like being here is the right thing to do. 

Sorry if this screws people over, this was by no means intentional and I hope we can still do our threads once I get back into the groove of things. But at least for the upcoming three days, I don't see myself being an active member of our community. 

I hope you'll understand.