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re: OT'ers who have had to put an elderly pet down
Posted on 6/28/16 at 10:32 pm to meauxjeaux2
Posted on 6/28/16 at 10:32 pm to meauxjeaux2
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meauxjeaux2
Absolutely MF'er! I didn't have kids and he was my "kid". He was our family before we had one. Not understanding that makes you look like the idiot you are
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:38 am to the LSUSaint
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Absolutely MF'er! I didn't have kids and he was my "kid". He was our family before we had one. Not understanding that makes you look like the idiot you are
My family dog was my brother for 17 years, and I'll be damned if someone told me different
Posted on 6/29/16 at 2:04 am to BayouBlitz
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Her hearing is all but gone, she has trouble sometimes keeping food and water down, she shakes a good bit at times, and is becoming frail. She has good days and bad days.
You basically decrived my wife's dog. She's 17 and also has horrid arthritis, kidney issues, a heart murmur, and falls constantly.
To me, I look at her and feel like she's suffering. My wife loves her, but has convinced herself that maybe it's not that bad. In reality she just keeps hoping that our dog will simply not wake up one day.
This post was edited on 6/29/16 at 2:36 am
Posted on 6/29/16 at 2:06 am to Bmath
Man, this thread is what's holding me back from owning a pet. I would love to have a pet, however it's the day when you have to say goodbye would be the most difficult to undertake.
This post was edited on 6/29/16 at 2:08 am
Posted on 6/29/16 at 2:08 am to BayouBlitz
This thread has been refreshing in that it shows the care most of y'all have for your dogs. It's best to evaluate the situation from an honest perspective, void of emotion, with reasonable expectations for a loyal companion whose life expectancy isnt as long as it should be.
If suffering is present with no reasonable solution in sight, then it is within everyone's best interest to alleviate suffering.
If suffering is present with no reasonable solution in sight, then it is within everyone's best interest to alleviate suffering.
This post was edited on 6/29/16 at 2:10 am
Posted on 6/29/16 at 2:29 am to BayouBlitz
Lost my 16 year old Lab almost a year ago. She was in pretty good shape until her last couple of months, but she was slowly declining. Her last 7 weeks I was by her side pretty much constantly (I work from home most of the time, so I could do that.) She always had a good appetite up to the end, and until the last day or two she liked to go for short walks. But she had bad arthritis, was in a lot of pain, and had dementia. I don't think she knew where she was a lot of the time, but she still liked to be petted.
I go back and forth over whether I waited too long. Maybe so, I loved her so much I just couldn't bear to do it. If so, I hope she will forgive me. Her death put me in a tailspin. for a few months. Her ashes are in a little wooden box with her name on it. They will be buried or cremated with me.
I go back and forth over whether I waited too long. Maybe so, I loved her so much I just couldn't bear to do it. If so, I hope she will forgive me. Her death put me in a tailspin. for a few months. Her ashes are in a little wooden box with her name on it. They will be buried or cremated with me.
Posted on 6/29/16 at 2:34 am to U R TIGA B8
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This thread has been refreshing in that it shows the care most of y'all have for your dogs. It's best to evaluate the situation from an honest perspective, void of emotion, with reasonable expectations for a loyal companion whose life expectancy isnt as long as it should be. If suffering is present with no reasonable solution in sight, then it is within everyone's best interest to alleviate suffering.
There are vets who specialize in pet hospice care. I didn't know about it at the time, and there weren't any in my area anyway, but it would have helped a lot. Our vet is good, but didn't give us much guidance on what to expect and what certain things meant. For instance, dogs are stoic and will hide their pain. If a dog shows any distress at all, they are hurting bad. I wish I had known this.
There are a few hospice vets in SELA and the N.O. area. I encourage anyone going through this to try to find one.
Posted on 6/29/16 at 4:56 am to Jim Rockford
Yes, if they are like the hospice programs here in SC, they will euthanize your pet at home, where they are most comfortable. Our daschund, bc of the adrenal gland tumor, would be in particularly horrid pain when driven to the specialist about an hour and a half away. The tumor would cause his system to flood his body with adrenaline which just intensified his pain. Having the hospice option was a Godsend bc otherwise, his last day with us would have included that horrible car ride as one of his final memories.
We had him buried in the backyard, had a gravestone marker made for him, and have flowers planted around his grave.
Our other dachshund, who is 17 and still going as strong as ever much to his vet's amazement, still refuses to go near where his buddy of ten years is buried and he has been depressed since Baby died. It's hurting him to have lost Baby just like it's hurting us. Every day gets a little better for him it seems, but for a week solid, anytime he was outside he would sit on the porch staring out at the driveway as if watching, waiting and hoping that Baby would return home.
We had him buried in the backyard, had a gravestone marker made for him, and have flowers planted around his grave.
Our other dachshund, who is 17 and still going as strong as ever much to his vet's amazement, still refuses to go near where his buddy of ten years is buried and he has been depressed since Baby died. It's hurting him to have lost Baby just like it's hurting us. Every day gets a little better for him it seems, but for a week solid, anytime he was outside he would sit on the porch staring out at the driveway as if watching, waiting and hoping that Baby would return home.
Posted on 6/29/16 at 7:26 am to BayouBlitz
Obviously not a vet, but it sounds like it may be time. Sometimes the best decisions are the tough ones. Good luck.
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