Posted on 04/04/2009 6:26:36 PM PDT by Califreak
She was very sick. I don't know if I did the right thing.
I'm pro-life, but I feel like such a hypocrite.
She asked if I wanted to be in the room while they put 101 down.
They brought in a blanket and 101 laid down, me right next to him.
I talked with him the whole time, the sedative made him sleepy and he just put his head on my knee.
After it was over the vet told me I could remain in the room as long as I needed.
Several days later I got a sympathy card from the vet and the staff.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I had to do the same thing with my beloved kitty 2 years ago. It was, by far, the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make. I still miss him so much. I’m sure you did the right thing. It’s obvious you loved your cat very much.
I am so sorry for your loss and share it with you. I had to put my precious cat down four days ago. He, too, had gotten so sick and was actively dying. But my guilt is compounded by the fact that I couldn’t go with my husband to the vet because I was so upset I could barely breathe. I wasn’t there for the little guy when he took his last breath. Oh, I hope he forgives me for that.
We all go through it.
Don't even feel as though you betrayed the pro-life cause. The big difference is that your cat is still an animal. We love our pets, but we've got to remember the distinction between human and animals. Unfortunately in this day and age the distinction is too often blurred.
God Bless, and hang in there.
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That is one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done. My heart goes out to you.
The fact that you are having those feelings indicates how much you loved your pet.
God bless.
I did the same thing. I was just in such pain.
I’m so sorry about your little furbaby. He/She was much loved, but I believe that when we get to Heaven, God will give our little furbabies back to us. Sometimes doing the hardest thing shows the most love for our pets.
My kitty baby is very sick right now and I dread that final day. Take heart...you will always love her and she knows you loved her. Read the Rainbow Bridge poem, it’s touching and so beautiful.
Take care. MMJ
Your friend was very much alive. Life is not chemicals and molecules, life is a dimension more which uses molecules and chemicals. Life is not stuck in the time frame we counts. Your little friend was alive and will always be alive. But your friend is no longer using the chemicals and molecules to express its self. And be assured, each of our beloved friends is a self and God gives the self and the self does not persih when the body stops. Sorrow not even as them who have no hope, for we know that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. The Lord the giver of LIFE doesn't waste that which has love and is loved.
Animals are not afraid of death. But they are usually afraid of pain. Think about that when you start thinking you did wrong to your pet.
Pro life is for human beings.
Human beings were created in God’s image and
likeness and are higher than animals.
Human beings were given dominion over animals
by God. Remember Genesis? And it is humane to
euthenize animals, in fact is is our responsibility
to insure they do not suffer needlessly.
People are NOT animals.
You did good. I’m quite certain your little friend
is in heaven with its Creator.
“Ask the beasts and they will tell you, and the birds
of the air and they will speak to you and the fish of
the sea and they will tell you that God’s hand is the
life and breath of EVERY living thing.” (Job 12:10)
I know exactly how you feel. My cat was wasting away with FIV at 11 1/2, right around Christmas time. I had him put down on Boxing Day.
In some ways, he was my best friend before I met my future wife.
Much as our pets are an important part of our lives, they do not have an immortal soul. Human suffering can be understood, and accepted. It can be efficacious in the grand order of things. Suffering in animals is not efficacious.
I will never have another cat like that again, but I am thankful for 11 years of fun and companionship. He even won over my wife, who was not partial to cats.
When you get an animal you are making a commitment to look after him for the rest of his life, or to find someone who can, barring something VERY serious. Some people get stuck with a mediocre animal and simply endure it. You were blessed with a creature who was more than just a cat. You should be thankful for those years, knowing that you may never have another like him.
You did not kill your cat to fill a want (like we do cows and chickens for food), or out of an unwillingness to be inconvenienced; you did it because he was suffering, and cats are not quite people, even though some of them are a heck of a lot more likeable.
Our pets trust us not to let them suffer.
I had to put down the “best cat ever” in 2000. I still miss him.
You did the right thing, and they’ll meet you again all whole and well in time.
I had to put my cat (been part of the family for years) down a few months ago due to renal failure. I couldn’t watch her suffer. You did the right thing.
I truly believe that we see our pets again in heaven. I had a dream last night about my cat. I knew it was a dream as I was dreaming, and Jesus was there. I pet her, and Jesus said that she wasn’t gone forever, she was just away and would be waiting for me.
Take it for what it’s worth.
A Freeper tear has been shed reading this thread. Rest assured you did the right thing my dear. We had to have our 14 1/2 year old doberman Hans euthanized a few years ago. He lived way past the usual age for a huge dog like he was. He was suffering. We were sorry we had not taken him in sooner. He was in respiratory distress, probably a fluid filled lung, when we rushed him to the vet to be euthanized. A few years prior to that horrible day, we had to euthanize a younger Dobie, Forrest, who at the age of 7 got agressive bone cancer in one leg. We now have 3 and 5 year old dobermans who are in robust health.
What I am dreading, is losing my dear horses. One is 19, and has a huge personality. As a bonus, he is the rare one in a million horse who is safe to ride, or as safe as they get. I wouldn’t trade him for a million bucks.
Since the first time we had to let go of a pet, I realized that if you chose to have a pet, you have to be prepared to lose it someday. Enjoy the time you have and then say goodbye when the time comes to be merciful to an old old pet. As others said, God gives us the task of taking care of animals, and that includes not letting them suffer. God Bless your broken heart. Heal up soon, and find a needy little kitty who needs a loving home. You have a lot of love left to give another little kitty.
I know how you feel, our prayers are with you. We’ve lost our 14 yo black lab and a 16 yo flame point Siamese in the last year. Don’t judge yourself so harshly. You were there for your pet when she needed you most and you helped remove her suffering in the end.
Bless your heart. I’m so sorry.
Yes, you did the right thing.
Now, go to the nearest pet shelter and adopt an adorable cat or kitten who needs a loving home such as yours.
You did the right thing. Your beloved pet is in a better place and you can take comfort in the fact that she is no longer suffering.
We put our cat and then our old Border Collie down. I lost it right there at the vet’s. So sad. And so necessary. It is the right thing, you don’t want them to suffer.
That’s a good way to send him off. I hope you don’t chicken out.
However, you will need to put something on top of the pallet. A pallet will float really low in the water. I don’t know if it will burn very well with water splashing up on it all the time.
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