Hey duders, I'm kinda depressed today. My dog, Rupert, was just put down this morning.

Two weeks ago he swallowed a shard of bone and perforated his intestine for which he had surgery. He's been up and down for the last week but a few days ago he was looking like he was getting better. He would eat and go for walks and generally looked happy.

However he took a turn last night and when we took him to the vet this morning they told us he had peritonitis and infection had spread to his heart. Being a 13 year old dog, he wouldn't be able to recover from any more surgery and unfortunately he had to be put down.

I've had Rupert since I was 8, I'm going to miss him.