You will know what to do or Pookie will tell you. As long as she’s not in pain and you are able to take care of her, why not wait until she lets you know.
I think the thing that hurt my husband the most is that he thinks he made a premature decision and cut Stewart’s life short too soon.
Yesterday, Bubba and I met the first dog we’ve ever met who was named Stewart. He looked nothing like our Stewart but he was a sweet fluffy blond dog belonging to a neighbor.
When I say she is obsessively attached to me, I make a huge understatement.
I worry that she will not let me know when it's getting too bad simply because her fear of not being with me is too great.
[she is without doubt the most severely ‘damaged’ dog I've ever met and having done Dobe rescue, that's saying something]
I understand exactly how your husband feels.
With Pookie, no matter how long I wait, I will always wonder if it was ‘too soon’.
Degenerative myelopathy doesn't “hurt” physically but it takes its toll by incapacitating them.
She's always been a very tidy dog and having accidents upsets her, even though we both tell her it's okay and she shouldn't be ‘ashamed’ or ‘sorry’.
If she were a ‘normal’ Ibizan, the inability to run, alone, would make her lose her will to live but she's never been a runner.
She's very agoraphobic and rarely strayed far from my side when in the yard.
*Sometimes* she'd forget and run with the pack but then suddenly remember herself and haul butt back to the safety of my side.
This poor dog has gotten the rawest of deals in life and no amount of love here ever fully erased the abuse she'd endured in the year and a half before she came here.
[sight hounds are very “primitive” and their minds aren't as resilient to rehabbing as ‘normal’ dogs]
Merlin, the most horribly abused Dobe I ever had only took a little over a month to bounce back to a completely happy and well adjusted dog and Dobes are terribe for never forgetting or forgiving but poor Pook has PTSD and I reckon it's much harder for her.
She has been much loved and cared for and I hope that somehow, it made her life better.
I always hoped she'd have some 'perfect time' before she passed but apparently that's not going to happen.
All I can tell your hubby us that Stewart understands what happened and loves him dearly, still.