re: How did y'all deal with putting a dog down

I put my 11 year old boxer down a little over a week ago. He was having trouble urinating and would walk around the yard for an hour cocking his leg. Brought him into vet and they discovered a large tumor that was compressing his bladder and not allowing him to urinate. My sister is about to graduate from vet school at LSU and she brought him in for a second opinion. They confirmed the tumor and also told me that his heart was very weak and that he wouldn't make it through surgery. So my only options were to bring him in for a catheter every 12 hours to relieve his bladder (which isn't realistic) while the tumor continued to grow or put him down. What hurt the most was that he was not in pain and was still just as active when I put him down as he was 10 years ago. It was only a matter of time before he began to suffer and I didn't want him to experience that.


RIP, Denali