Commonsense and compassion will enable a caring pet owner to get through a stressful time such as what’s mention in the article, IMO.
Ageing and illness is a natural process of life. People and pets are blessed when they have a loving caregiver when hard times befall them.
Throughout my life I have been blessed with wonderful, loving pets. And when they have needed my care through their illnesses.... I was there for them.
To the last wag of their tail and the final closing of their eyes... I was with them ....just as they were there for me all of those years.
YUP; and just like this old Marine, you cried like a 6 year old school girl when they died, didn’t you.