The story wasn't supposed to end this way

A vet came to the ranch Wednesday afternoon to examine Lucy. Since she wasn't eating

at that point, he thought it best that we haul her to town. We got her loaded in the trailer

and to the clinic, where she received liters of IV fluids that night and the next day, 

but she succumbed to whatever was ailing her and died late Thursday night.

A necropsy is being done, and I can only hope that a conclusive cause of death will be found.

Not knowing what took her away from us only adds to the heartbreak.