Hospital doesn’t allow pets – Man sneaks dog into hospital in suitcase to say bye to dying wife

by pawbuzz on in Dogs 138

In a recent post on Reddit.com, a man detailed his story of sneaking his dog into a hospital by hiding it in a suitcase. The man’s wife was in the hospital and the doctor had given a grim diagnosis, leaving her very little time to live. For this reason, the man decided he needed to sneak their dog into the hospital so his wife could play with her one last time.

“The prognosis was not good. She was able to speak, but was not eating or drinking, and relied completely on her IV and hard pain pills. In one rare instance of cogent speech, she convinced me to sneak our dog into her private room, so she could see her,” the man wrote in his post.

The couple’s dog was a 50-pound Australian shepherd, so the man had to hide the dog inside a large suitcase in order to sneak her past the hospital staff. The man tried to tell the dog she would only have to be in there for a short amount of time, and that she would be able to see her mom again, but he was sure she would bark or make a sound at some point and jeopardize their mission.

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To his surprise, the Australian shepherd remained quite the entire time he carried her over to his wife as he made his way to the hospital. Lying to the staff and telling them he was simply bringing some things to cheer his wife up, the man carefully carried his dog all the way to the room.

“When we entered the room, my wife was asleep. I unzipped the suitcase, and the dog immediately jumped on the bed, and gingerly laid across her chest, somehow avoiding the wires and IV. She positioned herself to where she could look directly into my wife’s eyes, and laid completely still, until about twenty minutes later, when my wife woke up, and started moaning in pain,” the man explained.

The dog, seemingly understanding of the situation the woman was in, carefully got as close to her mother as possible and waited for her to wake up. The mission was a success, and the man was finally able to reunite his wife with their beautiful Australian shepherd.

“The dog immediately started licking her, and quietly moaned, as if knowing that barking would definitely blow our cover. My wife hugged her for almost an hour, smiling the whole time. We were busted by one nurse who was so touched that she promised not to tell,” the man stated in his Reddit post.

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Just a couple days after this whole encounter, the man’s wife passed away. Having fulfilled one of her final wishes before she passed away, the man and dog were always left with a little reminder of the moment they all shared just a little while before when they looked at the suitcase. Whenever the man goes to use the suitcase now, the dog still thinks they are going back to see her.

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138 thoughts on “Hospital doesn’t allow pets – Man sneaks dog into hospital in suitcase to say bye to dying wife”

  12. Denise Moore

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    Why not let people who are dying see there pets its also good for the pets they need to say good by to .If the powers to be are worried about germs ,have you seen the state some visitors are in not to mention the staff going to work in there uniforms and home . My sister was in hospital seriously ill and in the corner of this ward was six bed mattress piled on top of one another no covers over them , I put on gloves and picked picked up dirty dressing of the floor which had been there for 2days .

  13. Kathy Sinclair

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    Dogs are allowed in many hospitals and palliative care units in Australia ..in fact in Melbourne there is an organisation called Delta Tails with specifically trained dogs to go into see patients and spend time with them. We even had a pet cat living in our unit for years free to go into patients rooms.

  22. Nathan Jeffrey

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    Thanks s makes me so mad. Who are they to say who your family is. If you want to see anyone or anything to make you feel good…..$#%&!@*them… take your dog in for a visit. I am sure the dog was better behaved than most people.

  25. Amber Shaw

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    Animals can carry bugs and typically are unclean. A hospital is suppose to be the cleanest place you can imagine. If it’s a hospital protocol to not allow pets then certain people are not more special then others. Which in my opinion means that people who feel their pup is a special butterfly and they deserve to have it in a hospitals sanitary environment, are wrong. No one person is above another. To be clear I don’t work for any hospitals and am not a nurse or doctor. I’m just a person who understand rules are usually put in place for a reason and everyone should follow them.

  46. Deb Wilkins

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    I took my chihuahua to visit my husband several times in the hospital. Sometimes, staff were very open and ok with it. Other times, they cautioned that it really wasn’t allowed, but no one ever made me take him out of the room. During my husband’s final stay, I took a yellow isolation gown and cut it down to fit Sparky. The staff got a real kick out of seeing him dressed the way we all had to dress when going in the room. Great memories!

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