Luna is Reunited with Yiska

RIP 02/16/22 – Last night we had to say goodbye to our beautiful Luna. Our vet was able to come to us and help Luna cross over peacefully in the comfort of her enclosure surrounded by staff and volunteers.

Luna was 13 years old and unfortunately had a rapid decline in her health. Six months ago she had melanoma on her gum line which was removed but recently it came back (it was removed again and likely to come back in another six months). Luna had weakness in her backend which was being caused by lumbo sacral instability, which is what caused her health to decline so fast. She became uncomfortable and couldn’t stand still without falling and we knew that wasn’t the life for her to live.

Luna was known as our “Queen Luna” because of her personality. She would bark and howl as soon as someone would enter the sanctuary, was the first animal to start howling before lunch time, never really liked her toys or blankets touched, and she loved to laugh at the med givers by taking the meat and spitting out the pill. 😂
Her absolute favorite thing to do was to go on walks every morning with staff/volunteers and her next door neighbor, Treasure.

When Yiska passed several years ago, she lost the love of her life. Luna never wanted another friend to live with her, and we respected that. Yiska and Luna were very bonded to one another (photo above at time of rescue 2012). Luna enjoyed attention from the volunteers and her favorite person in the world was volunteer Anna, who passed away two years ago. We know that Yiska and Anna were there waiting for her to cross and that Luna was ready to see her friends again.

We will miss you SO much Luna ♥️ 🌈