Posted on 08/29/2019 11:11:34 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
However, helping hundreds of families say goodbye to their pets in a very short amount of time did lend a certain insight into minute familial differences that allowed me to better predict problems, concerns and “blocks” owners face during the decision-making process. Understanding these trends quickly shaped how I communicate and coach families through the end-of-life experience with their pets.
1. First-timers make the decision “too late.” To be clear, this isn’t my opinion. Rather, it’s what the families tell me after we’ve said goodbye. Families that have never been through the process of euthanasia before tell me they’re waiting for “a sign” or “the right moment.” After the pet passes, however, they usually comment, “I don’t know what I was waiting for—she didn’t need to go through those last few days or weeks—I wish I would have called you sooner.”
We can all empathize—we know what it’s like to search the house looking for that handwritten (or paw-written) note that says, “Mom, I’m ready now.” But it never arrives. In fact, I’ve asked hundreds of veterinary professionals if they knew exactly when it was time for their own pets. Just 1 to 2 percent of us do.
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The decision has already been made. It’s time to let him go in peace and limit the time he suffers.
Just put my pup down a week ago. OUCH.
She went from all is well to a coma in less than a hour. The vets just a few blocks away, said she probably had some major cardiac event. They ask me if I wanted full ICU or let her go.
I said goodbye. I couldn’t put her through anything painful.
Had to put down my lab about 20 years ago. Her hips were horrible and she was starting to be pain.
I could handle the pain of letting her go way better than watching her be in pain.
Looking for a new dog cuz life ain’t worth livin without a dog!
I’m so sorry for what you went through. The Vet from hell.
I think if heaven is truly heaven, our pups will be there.
My most recent dog, Chaucer, had to be put down last December. I'm glad I made that list for him. It made me realize that he was actually communicating to me that his time was over, with the heart ailment he had being most likely incurable.
our old dog had sundowners syndrome and then dementia.
It was hard to watch, he was in great shape for his age.
A neighbor kept lobbying for him to be kept alive and even suggested a nursing home for dogs which opened down the road.
No. Double no.
Pup was suffering when he was lost in his dementia. He was so frightened.
I had to euthanize my cat Squeek several years ago at the young age of 11 and that was the worst time of my life.
I now have Cootie the cat who is about 3 years old now and she will be my last..........
At my age now, if Cootie lives a long life and ultimately needs my decision to put her down, I will be just as old and will likely go with her on my terms.......
I’ve grown up around dogs and other animals. I just don’t act all self-righteous when the result is the same...putting an animal out its misery. Especially when that very act is pretty common on farms and ranches to a lot of animals. To each their own, but I also don’t believe that pets are fur-children or fur-babies...they are pets. Hell, if the SHTF, I’d even go from being a dog owner to a rancher, cause eating is important.
The shot to relax an animal before euthanizing them is standard. The shot to stop them breathing sounds like pure evil, there is NO reason any vet should do that.
I suppose many here, when faced with that choice, might make the same decision; let’s hope it never comes to that.
My vet put down was less than 2 seconds. The shot went in, legs kicked out and she was done. I had dug a grave, the vet said don’t tell anyone I did it. I called a vet to come because I didn’t know if this was it or if something reasonable could be done.
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