The End Of The Road For Buttercup

Buttercup is a small toy poodle. She's got cream colored fur, and when she curls up in a ball she looks a lot like a cup of butter. We have spent our lives together. My parents gave her to my sister and I one christmas morning. My sister was seven and I was five. Buttercup is eighty-four in dog years though still manages to run faster than we do. The sweetest ball of fur you'll ever meet. She's been gaining weight over the past few years. It got to the point where she began to jog instead of run. A few months ago she stopped jogging all together and started to walk very short distances. She grew into not being able to walk at all. I had no clue what was going on inside of her neither did the vets. Later on we were told her diagnosis, cancer. I will never know why someone so loving and sweet would be challenged to death. It's a battle many people around me have fought and to see her go through it is heartbreaking. I was told we would only have a few more days with her before her body gives out.