It looks like I didn't follow up. After two days of Fang trying to find corners to hide in (I've had enough pets to know that means they want to die) hubby managed to shake himself out of denial and we brought her in to be put down. Keiki took awhile to get over her mother being gone, but is now doing well. Actually, ironically, doing better than she was when she had mom here to protect her (I've never been my dogs' "mom", if you said "mom" in our house, Keiki would look at White Fang). I really want to do some travelling, so am not replacing Fang. But it is odd. Fang always insisted on sleeping with us. Now that she is gone, Keiki prefers to sleep on the day bed in the next room. Her housetraining could be spotty, now it is perfect. It's like since her mother died, she decided she has to grow up. She's geriatric. I think one of the funniest things is that she had "down" ears. As her mom got more and more deaf, her ears starting going "up" more and more. Now they are completely up. Again, when her mother could hear, she didn't need to.