Thank-you, I've been struggling with the "did we make the right choice" for over two weeks now. It all happened so fast, wasn't like I could go online and think it all over.
I've since read about how treatable Addison's Disease is, and even when the emergency vet initially called it (prior to lab work and all of the other "rule out he ate something" etc. testing) he mentioned this. However once the labwork came back... I reassure myself in that the vet (who didn't know us) could have gotten thousands more from us, yet encouraged us to put him down.
And while with more research I've learned what a treatable disease it is, futher research has talked about the impact of stress on this disease... Bo was a high stress dog. He would not have fared well. I'm heartbroken, but my husband is devesated. We had both sworn to never get another puppy again, but he has asked me to rescind this policy when he is ready.
Bo was a high energy dog, his legend lives on with our friends and family. I'm now convienced that his energy (that caused educated dog owners to have a dog that flunked out of now one, but two obidence classes) was because he somehow knew he had to pack it all in in such a short amount of time. He wasn't a good dog by any means, but as my husband points out, you had to love him. He was sweet.