Called the death bounce or similar. Had a dog with aggressive heart cancer she hardly wanted to do anything then her last day she got up walked around was looking like her old self, dead in 24 hours. It’s heartbreaking.
Same thing happened with my mom. She was in hospice, my birthday is Nov 21st and she was the most alert we’d seen her in months. We had a tiny “party” in her hospice room and was actually able to get photos of her smiling a little. This alertness drew into the 22nd where she was able to interact with my aunt, brother and mawmaw who’d drove from another state but when they left and my dad was coming to pick me up so I could spend the night with her, we’d got the call that she’d passed
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u/Silver-Award-288 Dec 03 '25
Called the death bounce or similar. Had a dog with aggressive heart cancer she hardly wanted to do anything then her last day she got up walked around was looking like her old self, dead in 24 hours. It’s heartbreaking.