This stuff gets me. Havent put one down yet but had one die on me after she was hit by a car. Took her to the vet on a Saturday and helped the vet patch her up. She came through but never was the same. She was 11 at the time and I had gotten another female to take her place in the blind. One morning I go get her daughter to go hunting and I'll never forget the look on her mothers face when I didn't take her instead. Came back and she was dead. Never will forget that look. Buried her by the lake so she can hear the guns roar.

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Posted by hogfly

Fayetteville, AR

Member since May 2014

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Posted on 4/13/15 at 11:05 am to VernonPLSUfan

Getting teary eyed remembering the day I had to put our lab down.

He wasn't getting around well for a couple of days and had an accident in the house. I just thought he had eaten something bad, so I sent the kids off to school and scheduled him into the vet.

Turns out he had developed canine diabetes (and we didn't know) and was in diabetic ketoacidosis which had probably done some organ damage. So I had to basically put him down right then.

So then, when the kids got home from school, I had to explain what had happened.

Regardless, sitting there on the floor of the vet's office petting him while she administered the shots, then petting him as he slipped away... holy shite.

One of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, and that includes walking into a hospital bereavement room to talk to my wife after her father had just been pronounced dead from an unexpected heart attack.

Oh, as for disposal, beware the vet taking care of it for you. We ended up with a decorative wooden box with his ashes in it that rivals the box my father-in-law's ashes are in. Cost a pretty penny, which they didn't tell us until after they delivered it to us.

This post was edited on 4/13/15 at 11:07 am

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