Doggie end of life decisions
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 15:11 last edited by
That's the best news I've heard today. So happy for you and your pup - may you have many more years together!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 15:20 last edited by
Wow. If it had burst you would have been in a bad, bad situation. Glad it was found earlier.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 15:52 last edited by
@Mik said in Doggie end of life decisions:
Wow. If it had burst you would have been in a bad, bad situation. Glad it was found earlier.
Thanks, everybody. Mik, it did burst. The emergency room folks were surprised he survived. He was bleeding internally overnight before we took him in. His tongue and gums were pale, and he could barely stand.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:14 last edited by
Then double wow. You're all lucky.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:45 last edited by
Yeah I think so. I saw the wound on the tumor where it split, it was about two inches wide. Maybe a little bit larger and he'd have bled out. As it was, he was game enough to jump up into the car to make it to the vet that morning, but when we got inside, he was done moving and had to be taken into the examination room on a stretcher. That was the $500 visit before the $11000 visit to the ER. We'd already had an appt that morning for his leg fracture. Note sure what would have happened if we hadn't had that appt, I guess we would have taken him straight to an emergency vet though. He was obviously very sick.
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wrote on 15 Oct 2024, 16:59 last edited by
Got a pupdate for us, @Horace ?
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wrote on 15 Oct 2024, 17:32 last edited by
He's good, thanks for asking, wtg. Back to his old self. Never knew how close he came.
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wrote on 15 Oct 2024, 18:56 last edited by
Dogs are lucky. They don’t contemplate their own mortality, although I think they have instinctual awareness on some level.
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wrote on 15 Oct 2024, 19:14 last edited by
@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:
He's good, thanks for asking, wtg. Back to his old self. Never knew how close he came.
You ain't whistlin' Dixie. I showed my vet the photos that you posted of the spleen and the path report. His comment: "Nice to see dog dodged a bullet not often we get a benign spleen"
May he and you live long and prosper!
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@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:
He's good, thanks for asking, wtg. Back to his old self. Never knew how close he came.
You ain't whistlin' Dixie. I showed my vet the photos that you posted of the spleen and the path report. His comment: "Nice to see dog dodged a bullet not often we get a benign spleen"
May he and you live long and prosper!
wrote on 15 Oct 2024, 19:44 last edited by@wtg said in Doggie end of life decisions:
@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:
He's good, thanks for asking, wtg. Back to his old self. Never knew how close he came.
You ain't whistlin' Dixie. I showed my vet the photos that you posted of the spleen and the path report. His comment: "Nice to see dog dodged a bullet not often we get a benign spleen"
May he and you live long and prosper!
I let him know his case is world famous. He played it cool, like of course his case is world famous.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 16:18 last edited by Horace
He died suddenly this morning. He seemed a little sluggish last night on his walk, but didn't seem bad. This morning when I woke up he was normal, eating treats. He sat next to me in my office, then left randomly, as he does. An hour later I found him tucked in a corner where he's never been, behind an exercise bike. Breathing very heavily. He'd evacuated his bowels and his bladder. I yelled his name and he moved his head towards me, but within a few minutes he was gone. Carried him to the car and to the local vet. I'll get his ashes in a cherry box in a few days.
His prior brush prepared me for this, so it's not as bad as it would have been if this had happened before the spleen thing. I'm still glad we did what we could, and I'm glad this was relatively sudden, and that he was comfortable.
Education is extremely important.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 16:24 last edited by Mik
I'm so sorry, Horace. But you gave him a fine life, full of love, and you did not abandon him at the end. That's the best we can do. It's a great injustice that such wonderful creatures have such a short lifespan.
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He died suddenly this morning. He seemed a little sluggish last night on his walk, but didn't seem bad. This morning when I woke up he was normal, eating treats. He sat next to me in my office, then left randomly, as he does. An hour later I found him tucked in a corner where he's never been, behind an exercise bike. Breathing very heavily. He'd evacuated his bowels and his bladder. I yelled his name and he moved his head towards me, but within a few minutes he was gone. Carried him to the car and to the local vet. I'll get his ashes in a cherry box in a few days.
His prior brush prepared me for this, so it's not as bad as it would have been if this had happened before the spleen thing. I'm still glad we did what we could, and I'm glad this was relatively sudden, and that he was comfortable.
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 16:26 last edited by@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:
He died suddenly this morning. He seemed a little sluggish last night on his walk, but didn't seem bad. This morning when I woke up he was normal, eating treats. He sat next to me in my office, then left randomly, as he does. An hour later I found him tucked in a corner where he's never been, behind an exercise bike. Breathing very heavily. He'd evacuated his bowels and his bladder. I yelled his name and he moved his head towards me, but within a few minutes he was gone. Carried him to the car and to the local vet. I'll get his ashes in a cherry box in a few days.
His prior brush prepared me for this, so it's not as bad as it would have been if this had happened before the spleen thing. I'm still glad we did what we could, and I'm glad this was relatively sudden, and that he was comfortable.
Fuck. I'm really very sorry, Horace.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 16:26 last edited by kluurs
I'm very sorry, Horace - not unexpected - but such friends are tough to lose. Our dog's are pretty generous in not judging us harshly - loving us for just showing up. It hurts like hell to lose such a companion.
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I'm very sorry, Horace - not unexpected - but such friends are tough to lose. Our dog's are pretty generous in not judging us harshly - loving us for just showing up. It hurts like hell to lose such a companion.
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 16:32 last edited by@kluurs said in Doggie end of life decisions:
I'm very sorry, Horace - not unexpected - but such friends are tough to lose. Our dog's are pretty generous in not judging us harshly - loving us for just showing up. It hurts like hell to lose such a companion.
Yep. Put your wife and your dog in the car trunk. Come back in an hour and see who's glad to see you.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 16:50 last edited by Renauda
Sorry to learn this, Horace. Our little family experienced similar nine years ago.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 17:03 last edited by
Fuck, man. Absolutely shocked to hear this, and can't say how sorry I am. It does seem he was comforted in seeing you minutes before he passed, if that brings any ounce of closure. Really sorry, man.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 18:18 last edited by
Oh I'm sorry, Horace, that's awful. You're right, as least it was pretty quick and he didn't suffer too much. I know how difficult it is, though.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 18:32 last edited by
Thanks all.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 19:18 last edited by
RIP, good and faithful servant.
