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Final result.
Took the dog to the vet today who has been his vet from day 1 and saw him
just last week. He was acting stressful all this morning and started to drool. At the vet's office he started going nuts. Making guttural noises like he had never made before. Barking. Being aggressive and trying to get into corners. We could not calm him down. Really stressed out to the point the whites of his eyes were turning pink. The vet took him in the back and on three different occasions an assistant came in and said "If you hear him back there don't worry - we are not hurting him." Once they told us they were just trying to take his temperature. The vet came back and said they put him in a temperary enclosure and he continued to bark (which he rarely did) and faced one of the rear corners. He said he was a completely different dog than he was a week ago and for the first time in his life tried to bite. The vet even checked to make sure his rabies shots were up to date which they were. He said it probably was not a stroke since he had normal motor skills. It was nothing to do with his heart because he probably would have fainted from all stress he was putting on it. All the symptoms and behavior pointed to it being neurological. It was not CCD because his personality had changed so much in the last week since he last saw him and CCD normally takes longer. In fact his personality was worse yesterday than the day before, worse today than yesterday and worse this morning at 9 a.m. than it was at 7 a.m. The thought of what it was going to be tonight was not pleasant. We didn't even want to think of how it might degenerate from the 22nd through the 25th. We had three choices: - get an MRI or X-rays which might identify the cause but surgical treatment would be difficult because of his age, a heart murmur and pancreatitis. - Provide drugs to lower anxiety levels for a short term solution. In other words a drug labotomy. - Don't proceed any further. We asked what he would do if it were his pet and he said he wouldn't proceed. We made the decision to release my 24/7 companion for the last 13-1/2 years from his torment. |
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harvtran wrote:
We asked what he would do if it were his pet and he said he wouldn't proceed. We made the decision to release my 24/7 companion for the last 13-1/2 years from his torment. *****HUGS***** I just went through this with Winnie, and I am sending you hugs galore. It's never easy, is it? -- Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. |
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"harvtran" spoke these words of wisdom in
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harvtran wrote:
We asked what he would do if it were his pet and he said he wouldn't proceed. We made the decision to release my 24/7 companion for the last 13-1/2 years from his torment. Helping our dogs move on is one of the hardest yet the best things we can do for them. We could wish they would live 70 or 80 years, but they don't. I'm very, very sorry for your loss. |
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"harvtran" wrote in message ... We made the decision to release my 24/7 companion for the last 13-1/2 years from his torment. I am so sorry. My condolences to you and your family. Remember the joy of his years of companionship and honor him for sharing them with you. buglady take out the dog before replying |
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harvtran wrote: We asked what he would do if it were his pet and he said he wouldn't proceed. We made the decision to release my 24/7 companion for the last 13-1/2 years from his torment. I'm really, really sorry. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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harvtran wrote:
We asked what he would do if it were his pet and he said he wouldn't proceed. We made the decision to release my 24/7 companion for the last 13-1/2 years from his torment. I'm really sorry for your loss. You made a difficult decision that was the ultimate kindness. I hope your happy memories of most of his life with you give you comfort. FurPaw -- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower To reply, unleash the dogs. |
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harvtran wrote:
snip We had three choices: - get an MRI or X-rays which might identify the cause but surgical treatment would be difficult because of his age, a heart murmur and pancreatitis. - Provide drugs to lower anxiety levels for a short term solution. In other words a drug labotomy. - Don't proceed any further. We asked what he would do if it were his pet and he said he wouldn't proceed. We made the decision to release my 24/7 companion for the last 13-1/2 years from his torment. I'm so sorry for your loss. He was lucky to have you. |
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"harvtran" said in rec.pets.dogs.health:
We made the decision to release my 24/7 companion for the last 13-1/2 years from his torment. I'm very sorry. You put a lot of consideration into a tough decision. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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I'm so sorry for your loss. I know your head says he's in a safe,
comfortable place now. It will just take a little while for your heart to catch up. Remember all the loving years he gave you and you gave him. -sharon |
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