I’m a huge dog person - I just took home a little dog from the ASPCA that is 11 years old and has health problems. She’s a darling. But since my dogs shake with fear and horror when I take them to the GROOMERS, for God’s sake, I would not have the heart to put them through chemo or more than a few doctor appointments. We just let our beautiful lab go at 12. We could have had him operated on but we opted not to put him through such a trauma.
Just me, of course.
So much depends on the dog. We put our Golden/Brittany through chemotherapy trying to beat her lymphoma, but she just didn’t have the ~spirit~ to fight on her own and we had to put her down after three horrible months of treatment.
Our current dog has been fighting liver disease for almost 18 months now, and she is a fighter. If dogs can set their jaws, she does, and she forges ahead on the current task at hand. She accepts her acupuncture and tea pills with good humor, and accepts us shoving food in her mouth until it connects that we’re not trying to poison her. We’ll keep fighting this dang disease as long as she wants us to.
Can I recommend Bach Flowers Rescue Remedy to you? The also make other flower essences that can help with anxiety and stress, even thunder anxiety, for animals. That way they might be able to handle going to the vet better.