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My dog is very old now. Pushing 18. I git him when he was 4. He’s very white in the face and weak has had at least one seizure that has left him with poor balance on top of the arthritis. He’s mostly deaf. He sleeps a lot during the day, restless at night. I carry him upstairs, downstairs, outside all over.
But there are moments when he is suddenly a puppy again, like when I suddenly shuffle my feet like we’re about to play and he does a little twirly dance. Or he tells me he wants to go outside and he bounds around awkwardly with excitement. Treats too, even when im hiding his medicine in them.
Yesterday after my girlfriend took her dog out to pee before she left for work I found him sleeping next to my leg, which had been dangling over the bed. He wasn’t always cuddly with me because he’s a prideful boy but this late in life it’s like he’s gotten over something and wants to be close to me. I noticed that he watches my fingers all the time for the wiggle sign that a massage is on offer.
When I am alone with him back at my place I lie awake and read about how to be a good for him and what I can do to make him comfortable. Then I start weeping like an abandoned child, like I have already lost him. I visualize what it will be like. Will I find him? Will the vet do it? It’s like I’m trying to prepare myself for the time when I have to hold in my screams when I can see the light has left.
I’m having a hard time with this.
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- ^ He lost his doggy too.shapesalad
- When and if you come to the hard decision of having to help his life come to an end, I would try and find a vet that comes to your home. We did it with our 17yrwordssssss
- old and him being in his space with people he knew loved him was the only way I could see doing it. The coldness of a vets office was too removed from the lifewordssssss
- he lived. Hope it out works for you and your bud.wordssssss
- Stay strong********
- :( here's a native teaching that helped me when my pup got sick. "It's our responsibility to give them an easy life and an easy death." lots of cuddles.sea_sea
- :( Just a tip...if you do ever need to help him over the rainbow bridge...get the vet to come to your home.BusterBoy
- I took my cat to them and the poor thing spent his last moments pretty scared. At least at home they are in a familiar environment.BusterBoy