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re: Gotta put my buddy down. How do people do this!?!
Posted on 4/13/15 at 11:05 am to VernonPLSUfan
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.
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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