I have an old girl who’s at the end of her degenerative myeopathy journey.
A decision will have to be made soon.
I can’t read this.
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Our old boy, K-ci, is close to the end as well. We have to carry him up the steps and his front leg gives out and he falls on his face. Our family also has to make a decision soon, before our son has to leave to go back to college. It’s so sad...
oh, poor thing :( Is she an old dog? My Jack Russell has been acting weird lately so I’m taking her in next week to get a geriatric screening. She’s 12 and a total sweetheart.
We lost our 9 year old Chocolate Lab “Clancy” this past Tuesday at our mailbox at the highway. I hadn’t noticed he was in the woods near the right-of-way and when my wife went to get the mail I walked with her.
Clancy, unbeknownst to us, followed in trace; I heard the screeching brakes of a young lady’s van but it was too late.
I keep looking behind me while I read online to see if he’s on his pillow sleeping. Not there.
I cried as I read it.
The old lab Stewart was definitely my husband’s dog and he made the decision when Stewart’s back legs began giving out as Finn’s did.
He wouldn’t go with us to the vet so it was me, and my daughter and son-in-law.
Stewart never seemed to be in pain. I think Finn was kept alive too long.
It took my husband a year to get over Stewart. Really I don’t think he ever has. He thought he made the decision too soon, that Stewart could have lived longer.
I wish he could read this to see that it was much kinder to put him out of pain, but he could never read a story like this.