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re: OT'ers who have had to put an elderly pet down
Posted on 6/29/16 at 2:34 am to U R TIGA B8
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.
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