She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car.
Too young to know much, she was beginning to learn
To use the newspapers spread on the kitchen floor
And to win, wetting there, the words, "Good dog! Good dog!"
We thought her shy malaise was a shot reaction.
The autopsy disclosed a rupture in her liver.
As we teased her with play, blood was filling her skin
And her heart was learning to lie down forever.
Monday morning, as the children were noisily fed
And sent to school, she crawled beneath the youngest's bed.
We found her twisted and limp but still alive.
As the owner’s thought that the dog was just shy and timid, the dog was actually very sick with a failing liver. The liver was causing the dog to slowly die and whenever the owners tried to play with her she was just becoming more and more in pain as the liver was failing and the blood was starting to come from her liver. In result to her ruptured liver the dog’s heart was also starting to go causing the dog to be near death.This can be seen through the sentence “And her heart was learning to lie down forever.” This is a play on both the dog learning to lie down as her heart is also learning to lie down.
Dogs Death