Precious Baby, Poisoned puppy Options

[Cassie's mum]

I just found this site while looking for somewhere to express the grief and pain I feel at the loss of my beloved Cassie. We had her such a short time but she became an integral part of our lives and our plans for the future and now she's gone and I can't stop crying. For such a beautiful baby to die from poisoning is so horrible I still can hardly comprehend it. I don't think this pain will ever go away. She was one of an abandoned litter of five Rhodesian Ridgeback - X puppies, all girls, found in a field by my neighbour. They were no more than four weeks old and over the ensuing weeks we fell totally in love with Cassie and took her into our own home at New Year. She was bright, beautiful and loving and already learning to understand and obey simple commands. While my neighbour and I were out walking Cassie and her sister, Sheba, who my neighbour kept from the litter, she must have picked up something poisoned and the vet just couldn't do anything to save her. I feel so guilty and so heartbroken.