Dear Mare I had to put my Chow Kodi down on March 19,2006 and it was the most difficult decision I had to make. His rear legs gave out and he just couldn't stand and he was miserable. He was 16 years old when I put him down. I couldn't go in to be with him, it just hurt too much. My dad went in and he said they gave Kodi some meds to calm him down because his sight wasn't very good and then they just gave him the same meds they would if they were doing surgery on him to put him to sleep and then some med to stop his heart. Dad said he wasn't in pain and he went very peacefully. It's killing me to talk about this. I had Kodi from the time he was 5 weeks old and he lived to be my old man of 16. I still miss him every day. I have two dogs now but there will always be a special place in my heart for Kodi otherwise known as fuzzbucket. Well I'm going to go and have a good cry with Snuggles and Oreo. Good luck I think you know what you have to do and you'll do the right thing. Take care Brenda
~~MARE~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Friends
I need some help and hope someone out there can provide the answers. I want
the honest answer please ! It is important to me.
I have an older Basset Hound that I rescued two years ago when his former
owner passed away. I promised "Fred" that he had a home until.....
Well until is here evidently.
He has lost enormous amounts of weight...I tried changing his diet even
cooking for him.....worming him and giving him vitamins.
He is tired and it shows.
I believe he needs to be put to sleep. He is totally blinded by his thick
cataracts. Yesterday he ate one half a wiener.
What I want to know is what happens when they put him to sleep? Is he going
to feel it and suffer any? Or will he just go to sleep?
It is killing me to do this. I have told him he is to go to his former owner
and be happy...not to worry about me.
Please help me come to terms with what so obviously must be done.
I believe God has a place for the animals or why else would he have wanted
them on the Ark? Yes I believe God loves them too.
My Sheltie Peggy Sue passed last year at 16 but I didn't have to go through
the pain of putting her down. I don't want Fred hurting any longer. I am quite
sure it is cancer taking him.
Thanks from my heart to yours,
Mare
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