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Originally Posted by DeanH3
Sorry for your loss. Losing a beloved pet is hard. We lost our yellow Lab back in November and it still stings at times.
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Originally Posted by realbigfatdog
The wife and I took a year-long hiatus from owning another pet after our beloved Tater passed away in January, '24.
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Cowboy had been a member of our family for nearly seventeen years and was approaching 21 years of age (we think). We knew he was slowing down and had taken him to the vet in February where the diagnosis was "old cat" with slowing kidney function. He'd been keeping to his normal routines though and seemed to be enjoying life but at a slower pace.
But he stopped eating and grooming himself over the weekend and was clearly in pain. The WOMAN and I took turns staying up with him all night on the front porch where he loved to be Sunday evening through Monday morning. The vet told us on Monday that one of his internal organs had shut down. We could learn specifically what had gone very wrong with a battery of tests but there was no hope for any kind of recovery. Just more pain and misery until the end.
So I had to make that toughest of all calls. But what's really savage in these situations is that this little creature who's completely devoted to you trusts you implicitly to do what's best for him and thus make everything right. Yet in the end there's nothing you can do but make the god decision and stay there with him as he departs this mortal coil. It's absolutely devastating.
A few more pics from better days:
