08/27/2026
We never expected this. This is a long read, but please read the whole post. From Friday to Wednesday, everything changed for Slynk. Before we even started 100 Days of Slynk, we knew she would need dental surgery. We had been working with her veterinarian to get her an appointment, with plans to get everything taken care of before she was adopted.
On Friday, Slynk went in for her pre-surgical bloodwork, but something came back wrong. Her bloodwork suggested that Slynk had cancer, something we were not prepared to hear. We started treatment over the weekend and brought her back to the vet Monday for more bloodwork. This time, she was hospitalized so she could receive treatment in-house.
We picked her up Monday night, let her rest, and brought her back Tuesday for another day of treatment. When we picked her up Tuesday, we got worse news. Slynk wasn't improving. We brought her home one more time, determined to get her to eat, and planned to bring her back Wednesday morning to check her levels again.
This morning, her results were worse than before.
Slynk was suffering. She had stopped eating, and we had to make the heartbreaking decision to let her go, Slynk passed away today. All of this happened in five days. Five days from taking Slynk in for what we thought was routine pre-dental bloodwork to saying goodbye to her.
We kept hoping that the next test would bring better news. That she would start eating. That the treatment would work. That her numbers would improve. They didn't.
After almost three years in our care, including time spent in a loving foster home, this was not the ending we wanted for her. We wanted her to get her dental, find her forever home, and finally have the family she had waited so long for.
We are heartbroken. Slynk may never have gotten her forever home, but she had a home with us. She was loved. She was cared for. And she mattered.
We love you, Slynk. We are so sorry we couldn't give you more time.
