I'm very sorry for your loss. I know how you feel. My wife and I always have two dogs, and at our age that means we have had a lot of them.
We had a similar experience with an Irish Setter who died in 2000. At 14 one day she just wouldn't get up any more. We kept her going for 6 weeks, helping her go outside with a sling around her hindquarters, while we tried all sorts of treatments, but nothing worked. We lost another setter last summer at age 12 to a liver tumor. Sadly dogs don't usually live beyond the 12 - 16 year range.
At least your dog had a good life and at the end you helped her out of it painlessly. I've often thought we humans would be better off if we were cared for by benevolent aliens who would make these end-of-life decisions for us.
Grieve as long as you need to—we usually take about a year—and then get another dog. You cannot have a better friend and companion.
We had a similar experience with an Irish Setter who died in 2000. At 14 one day she just wouldn't get up any more. We kept her going for 6 weeks, helping her go outside with a sling around her hindquarters, while we tried all sorts of treatments, but nothing worked. We lost another setter last summer at age 12 to a liver tumor. Sadly dogs don't usually live beyond the 12 - 16 year range.
At least your dog had a good life and at the end you helped her out of it painlessly. I've often thought we humans would be better off if we were cared for by benevolent aliens who would make these end-of-life decisions for us.
Grieve as long as you need to—we usually take about a year—and then get another dog. You cannot have a better friend and companion.
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