I had to put down my beloved dog, Bozo, and cried for a week but there was nothing that could be done for him.
Poor Bozo :(
It was the same with Purrcival. When he was 10, the vet operated to remove a sarcoma from his underside. It wasn’t internal. Three years later, when Purrcy started throwing up again, we took him to the vet, and the vet identified a very aggressive cancerous growth in his stomach. There was nothing we could do for him. I tried keeping him comfortable by taking him in for DepoMedrol shots every two weeks, then every week...and toward the end, they were giving him NO relief at all. He couldn’t/wouldn’t eat, stopped grooming himself, didn’t even want to watch the birds and the squirrels, and stopped sleeping with us at night, preferring to stay under a table in the sunroom all the time. He started throwing up blood, and throwing up right after he ate. We decided it was time (and maybe even past time). I took him to the vet’s for the euthanasia and stayed with him. After the necropsy, the vet told me that the growth had taken over Purrcy’s entire stomach and had invaded the duodenum. He had tumors in his abdomen, and even in his kidneys. I think I DID wait too long, but he had been with us since he was 6 months old. It was so hard to let him go.
It’s always difficult to make the decision when to let go. It’s more than a cold calculated cost benefit analysis. We put our Yorkie down because he was having strokes. The vet said they could keep him alive, but he would never regain any mobility, control over his bowels/bladder, he eyesight, etc. The vet (a neurologist) was blunt, but open. We had just spent the previous week, $5500.00 at an “emergency” clinic that discharged him after assuring us he had regained mobility and was “fine”; (he’d had kidney problems). Our poor pup never regained mobility and was not the energetic dog that the “emergency” clinic described to us. I would never spend $1.00 at that clinic again, however, would not hesitate to spend whatever my vet wanted to charge to save an animal because I know he would be doing it honestly and because he measures things by the quality of life my little companion would have. Unfortunately, Pfesser has a point that not all people in this situation are trustworthy, however, each person can make that determination on their own and it seems like hattend found someone whose opinion was valuable.
I wish you all the best with your pets.
Too bad however, we can’t put our congress out of its misery before they kill us with this so called stimulus crap.