Ever have to put a pet to sleep?

[b fold the truth]

Just got back from the vet. Took my 12 year old cat. I get back from vacation and find out that she was sick while I was gone. I take her to the vet this morning and they find several knots all around her abdomen...like 10 or more of them. They kept her for tests and I am supposed to go and check on her tomorrow...and they said that it would probably be best to put her to sleep. She's been my baby since she was a kitten....found her on a beach in Florida.

Just wondering if anyone else on here has ever had to put down a pet that was like a child of yours...

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[amaritto]

I feel your pain completely. I put my baby of 8 years to sleep about 3 weeks ago.

There is a thread I wrote about it on this forum.

 

[plifter]

Sorry to hear that. I had a cat that was 17 years old and died of a heart attack a few years ago. Our family got her from the animal shelter when she was 6 weeks old.

 

[Hannibal]

I did recently. Our oldest Mastiff was starting to show her age. She was having trouble getting up and down. Then one day when I came out to see her she couldn't even get up. It hurt me to see her like that. She almost looked at me as if to say...I'm sorry. Well I took her to the vet and turns out that she had cancer...which had also caused severe dehydration. They tried to put her on fluids but she didn't respond so I had to put her down.

 

[cladshirt]

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Sorry to hear about your friend. Thats what pets are to most of us. I had a dog when I was like 13 we had to have put to sleep. She was 8 and had a rare thing called wobbler syndrome.

 

[maxellyz]

im sorry to hear that i also have a cat and she is 8 years old and i have had her since she was a kitten and i cant imagine not having her around

 

[AGENT SHAGWELL]

I'm so sorry Put down my "Baby" when he was 8. Only comfort was he would no longer suffer.

 

[BackDoc]

Chameleon last month, pet of 1 year. Getting very sick with digestive problems. Used all available medicine and herbs and so forth to treat her, but nothing could stop it. Then her pancreas ruptured and her own digestive fluids began digesting at her abdomen. I couldn't watch that knowing the torture it must be. She was so sick and suffering as it was. Put her in a small box and took her out to the car, where I held her underneath the exhaust fumes. Took a few minutes but at least she went rather painlessly. Buried her in the backyard next to a rosebush. Kind of sad, I guess.

 

[karson]

dude

you shouldnt call your mom one of your dogs, thats not nice.........

 

[b fold the truth]

My cat was severely dehydrated so they could not run any urine tests on her for a few...they couldn't even get a urine return through a cath.

I am not worried about her being put to sleep if she is sick. She just doesn't act sick...she still chases my dobe around the house like she was 5 again. Just hard to think about comming home and her not being of my kids that runs to the door and demands attention.

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