Luke, whose story was carried in the June issue of The Pet Club, has passed away.
Indescribable feelings come welling up...
Rest in peace, Luke.
Here is the message we received from his owner, expressing gratitude for Pinfenon.
※ Here is the owner's own moving diary.
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August 6, 2:00 P.M.
Luke has died.
It seems that the summer heat was just too much for him.
Thanks to Pinfenon, his sufferings were lightened and he was lively up till the end.
However, he stopped urinating and stopped eating as well, so I took him to the vet and he had an injection.
The next morning, he could not get rid of his nausea, and he died in the afternoon of that day.
When I took him to the vet that morning, I was advised to leave him there for treatment, and I went to see how he was in the afternoon.
When I arrived, his condition had suddenly changed.
A strange thing happened.
When I was on my way to the hospital, all of a sudden I thought I saw Luke sitting in the passenger seat.
He looked well, the way he used to.
He seemed to be saying, happily, "Going for a drive with Mayu."
When I had taken him to the vet in the morning, he was in the back seat--which was different from the old days when he was well--because he could hardly walk anymore.
Luke looked at me as if to ask, "Not the front seat?" but I think he understood that I had put an ICE-NON [pad] in the back so he could be cool and stretch out comfortably.
Still, he must have been sad that he had no energy left.
When I saw that vision of Luke, he seemed to be proud that he was able to sit in the front seat.
I remembered that when they were trying to resuscitate him.
Luke was in the passenger seat and looking well, and I thought in surprise,
"What's going on?"'
And I seemed to recall having heard that when the soul leaves the body, the body's condition worsens.
The thought passed through my head: "He's left his body and come to my passenger seat."
I couldn't wish for that lively, proud, happy Luke in my vision to go back to his painful body and be dying.
The vet called me and told me that his breathing had stopped, but his heart was still beating.
He explained that the buildup of abdominal fluid had gotten worse and worse and the treatments just couldn't keep up with it anymore. We gave up on the attempt to resuscitate Luke.
I felt terribly sad, but I understood and said in my heart, "Good boy, you did your best!"
By rights, he should have died in May.
He had been getting weaker and weaker, but Pinfenon must have spared him a lot of suffering.
During those three months, Luke, who didn't trust people, stayed right with me and seemed to feel my love and believe in it.
Four or five times a day we had a Pinfenon Time together when I would give him the supplement.
I always adjusted the amount according to the way he looked.
Thanks to you, I was able to spend a lot of time with Luke.
He was weak, but still, it was a happy time, those three months while I was taking care of him.
Those three months were like a treasure for me.
If Luke had died in May, it would have been so hard on me that I don't know how I could have borne it.
I was able to show lots of love to Luke, who could not completely believe in love, in spite of having gotten used to me.
I just loved him so much when he would fawn upon me and show his complete trust in my care.
It may have been hard on Luke, but he was able to walk up until the day before he died.
His expression was so lovely that you wouldn't have thought he was such a sick dog.
Thank you very much for these three months that have been a kind of treasure for me and Luke.
If I had not found Pinfenon, I would probably have felt I should let him go sooner, he was so emaciated.
I can't suppress the thought that if I had come across this supplement sooner, things would have been different.
I certainly pray that news of Pinfenon will spread and more and more dogs and cats will be able to benefit from it before it is too late to save them.
It has truly been a happy time. Thank you, Mr. Okawa.
Luke Sugawara