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Shit day
#11
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I'm sorry, Max. I lost my dog Pepper to bone cancer not that long ago. I cannot understand exactly how you feel, but can empathize with what you're going through.

I never know what to say.
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#12
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Thanks guys. Told the wife - she took it better than I expected. I guess we were both rather expecting something like this - she is 16 after all.

Hopefully I'll be strong enough to do the deed tomorrow. Doesn't matter how much you tell yourself its the right thing to do its still nightmarishly difficult.

Went through all of this with the Beagle a couple of years back but somehow still having Naomi made it easier.

Gonna be fucking empty in the garden for a while.
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
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#13
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I still remember the last cat I lost, Angel. She was having trouble eating, but if we fed her human food that she loved and sang to her we could coax her to eat most days. She fought for months. We had to take her in to get fluids regularly because she just wasn't drinking any of her water. Then one night, she just got in the tub and started rocking back and forth, and for the first time, it was like she was just done. She died that night at my parents' house while I was away at my apartment on campus. My parents held off telling me until finals week was over and froze her body so that I would be able to be there for her burial. She was the most graceful, elegant creature I've ever known. Even dead, she just looked so majestic and peaceful, like she had just curled up to go to sleep. She was the only one of our cats that would allow new people to touch her. Us humans weren't the only ones who grieved, either. One of the two cats kept sniffing the tub where she died for months, and the other would just go all over the house and scream. People who say cats don't have empathy are full of shit.
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#14
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I don't know what kinds of services you have over there. We had a vet come to the house last October. It was easier than having to bring my girl to the vet's office.
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#15
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(March 12, 2014 at 4:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I don't know what kinds of services you have over there. We had a vet come to the house last October. It was easier than having to bring my girl to the vet's office.

No house calls from vets over here I think. Not such an effort to take her - but not today.

I just bought Tramadol hydrochloride that the vet prescribed. They are strong pain killers that should get her moving a bit easier. She seems comfortable enough when sitting and lying down but movement is obviously uncomfortable.

This is just a delaying tactic to be honest - but if she can be pain free and assuming the drugs don't knock her out completely may as well get a bit longer for her.

Looks like last night's steak and liver wasn't her last meal after all. I wonder what I'll cook for her tonight?

Now I'm off to clean up last night's crap. At least we know she's not constipated.

Oh the joys of pet ownership!
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
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#16
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very sorry to hear that max as any animal lover knows the bond you develop with your pet makes it very hard to let go.

shep
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#17
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I'm so sorry to hear this. The only thing to do is cherish the remaining moments you have with her and make her last days as comfortable and pain free as possible.
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#18
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I suppose this necro-post is excusable.

After an additional delay of a couple of weeks I finally did the deed today.

Naomi's pain is over. 16 almost to the day. I was hoping I would feel more relieved than anything else but that is not the case.

Dogs just don't live long enough.
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
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#19
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No they don't.

Personally I am mystified as to why humans deposit so much emotional energy towards something that will not live more than 15 years. But that is just me and my thinking.

Sorry that you had to go through this max. *Hugs

It is a pity that we don't treat humans as humanely.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#20
RE: Shit day
(March 12, 2014 at 1:24 pm)max-greece Wrote: God knows how I am going to tell the wife.
Why don't you ask him?
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