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[Rachel]

Tomorrow, Tuesday (well I guess later on today), we are putting down my dog Casey. He has lived a very long life, about 14 years, but it is still really hard. He has lost control of his bowel movements (ie, he shits in the house sometimes) and has difficulty standing up and sitting down, his back legs are giving out. My parents are leaving for Mexico next week and then my sister and I are both going out town so they didn't want a)for him to get worse and us to have to deal with this by ourselves and b)to have to pay for someone to take care of him and then have him get worse/die without us there. I am just so upset and don't think it's his time to go :(


Has anyone had to put their beloved pet, dog or not, down?

[sixfive]

Tomorrow, Tuesday (well I guess later on today), we are putting down my dog Casey. He has lived a very long life, about 14 years, but it is still really hard. He has lost control of his bowel movements (ie, he shits in the house sometimes) and has difficulty standing up and sitting down, his back legs are giving out. My parents are leaving for Mexico next week and then my sister and I are both going out town so they didn't want a)for him to get worse and us to have to deal with this by ourselves and b)to have to pay for someone to take care of him and then have him get worse/die without us there. I am just so upset and don't think it's his time to go :(
Has anyone had to put their beloved pet, dog or not, down?

Memorial day two years ago, we put down our dog which was older than me and I had known since the day I came home from the hospital. We decided we had to when we found her sprawled across the kitchen one day and completely unable to get up because her legs went out in all different directions. She was so scraggly looking, and it would take her upwards of 5 minutes to sit down because her arthritis was so bad. Also, she was deaf. It sucked, I'd known her for 17 years.