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03-19-2021, 10:25 AM #51Registered User
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Similar story here. When the time comes, you'll know. If you haven't seen the vet recently, do so. We found out that our dog had cancer, treatment wasn't going to prolong her life, so we enjoyed the remaining time we had with her. When she totally stopped eating, we knew it was time, made the appointment for the following morning, carried her up to her bed that night and she died in her sleep during the night. She was a great dog and now 5 years later, still miss her.
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03-19-2021, 10:30 AM #52
Yeah, and there's zero chance I'd be down with that either. If I have a family member dying in the hospital, you think I'd be like "Ok, Doc. Sure. I'll wait out in the car and watch it on your iPad." You're seriously ok with that, whether its people or pets? It's really sad. I think that'd make it even harder to get closure. I've been with several people as they died. Having them hold my hand as they took their last breath was something I'm thankful for. Helps us to move on, ya know? Same went for my doggie I had to put down a year ago (see the just a dog thread).
Sorry, OP. Don't mean to derail your thread. That just really stuck out to me and made the whole ordeal seem even harsher. Really sorry for your mom's loss. Losing a dog you love freaking sucks. Vibes+++
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03-19-2021, 11:31 AM #53
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03-19-2021, 11:47 AM #54
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03-19-2021, 11:52 AM #55
IMO at home euthanasia has been the way to go since they started offering it. I'm not sure what the current protocols would be but I'd much rather my pets last moments be at their home. I've done it twice now and every time it's been better than the time we took one to the vet (vet experience was fine but it sucked being there instead of home).
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03-19-2021, 12:09 PM #56
So sorry Brock - my heart goes out to you. I hope your memory is a comfort and a reminder for all the love and good times you shared together. Vibes, man.
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03-20-2021, 08:26 AM #57Registered User
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No one is “ok” with it silly. It’s the current situation we live in.
Protocol for us to have the in home thing done was in the backyard with masks on, I won’t take another one to the vet. It was the best way to handle a tough situation.
I haven’t had one go in their sleep, let several probably go a bit too long out of selfish love. Never a clean answer, but the eating/shitting thing is a good sign. Death is weird, I wish we handled it differently.
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03-20-2021, 12:40 PM #58
When one of our Irish setters died at home I took her body to the city animal shelter to dispose of her body. There was a guy there with a little white yappy dog. He handed it over to the shelter attendant who turned and walked away with the dog looking back over his shoulder at the owner. Who almost broke down. So did I, and 30 years later I can still see the scene and it brings a tear or too, like now. I don't know how important it is to have a dog euthanized at home--when our cocker died I didn't have a problem holding her at the vet's--but turning a conscious dog over to a stranger to die, that's really rough. I had a hard time doing that with my wife's miserable rabbit, and I hated the damn thing.
I gotta go.
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03-20-2021, 04:52 PM #59
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03-21-2021, 10:12 AM #60
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03-21-2021, 10:47 AM #61glocal
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How the fuck will I ever be able to lose my buddy when he grows old and his time has come? You know, the guy who would prefer I never leave his sight and is worried sick when I do. The dude who jumped the fence and sat next to me and nudged my hand to let me know he had my back when a loose pit bull on the street growled at me. The one who lays his head on my pillow in the morning next to me and looks at me with all the love in the world and rubs his whiskers on my face when he thinks he needs to wake me up to let him out to investigate something outside in the middle of the night. My bodyguard who knows his bark hurts my ears, so he talks to me when he wants out. The little guy who will do this day in and day out for as long as he lives and will find pure joy in every minute of being with me like I do being with him.
If there are such things as angels and guardian angels, they come in the form of our furry dog friends. To lose a friend like this is pure tragedy and sadness. I lost my big guy Freddie almost exactly a year ago. But his replacement has exceeded all my expectations. He does everything with my approval in mind because it means everything to him. I don't have to raise my voice because I can talk to him in any situation and he will do the right thing. I know my reasons to mourn the loss of a good dog are much like the reasons of everyone posting here. To lose such a devoted friend pretty much requires we bear witness to their goodness and love in these remembrances.
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03-21-2021, 11:19 AM #62
It's tough, no doubt. I try to remember all times they pissed or vomited or had diarrhea all over the house, or chewed some expensive underwear of my wife's, or scattered what was left of the garbage all over the kitchen after eating most of it including bones, or wouldn't stop barking at nothing. But it doesn't help.
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03-21-2021, 12:53 PM #63
Damn Splat, good job making me weep. But ya, I feel the same way
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03-21-2021, 01:05 PM #64glocal
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I cried as I wrote it, dude.
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03-21-2021, 03:11 PM #65
Sorry for your loss Splat. What you wrote about Freddy was lovely.
All of my pups have either died at home or been euthanized at home. I couldn't bear to part with my fur children in such a cold, frightening environment. Solo cremation is also something I have always done. It's worth it. I'm too sentimental.
2.5 years out from losing Ullr and the sting is just now starting to go away. Adopting a weasily, spindly Border Collie a few months ago has kept me busy, I got so incredibly lucky finding him. Hopefully it's a good 10 years or so before I have to post in the other 'just a dog' thread.
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03-21-2021, 04:03 PM #66glocal
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I was actually posting mostly about my new furkid, Baby. Freddie passed a year ago but it's been that long with Baby since the start of covid self-isolation. We have bonded so incredibly, the thought of losing him is where my post was actually coming from. Freddie was an outside dog (Pyrenees) but I made Baby an inside dog as a pup (Pyrenees/White Lab mix) when he happened to be inside one night and some apartment buildings under construction not too far away were torched and Baby woke me up.
I was impressed early on by this guy.
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03-21-2021, 06:47 PM #67
One thing I've noticed about older dogs--at least some of them, at least our last one and now our current one--they seem to withdraw a little as they get closer to the end. Maybe they do it to make it just a tiny bit easier on us when they go. They don't go as far as teenage humans do their senior year in HS--making themselves completely unwelcome before they leave.
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03-23-2021, 12:09 PM #68
Yeah I actually wonder when they get to a point, not eating or just pooping everywhere, it’s already been a certain # days/weeks where they’ve really been miserable. Where that fine line is. It’s a real withdrawal to not eat and how that’s obvious. But before that I chalk it up to being an old dog. Kind of like an old crusty grandfather.
Decisions Decisions
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03-23-2021, 12:11 PM #69
Fuck this thread.
I'm not reading it, and skipped quickly to the bottom to post this.Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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