Originally Posted by
buttercup132
I'm just scared that I won't know.
You will know.
I euthanized Lacie, my cocker, when she became senile, basically. She had the typical "old dog" symptoms you described - skinny, stiff, trembling, sleeping all the time, etc. She was also deaf and almost blind. But when she also became confused ... wandering around a room endlessly, standing in corners facing the walls until someone moved her, howling at nothing ... I knew it was time. I had been watching her and contemplating it for months, but I knew without a doubt when the time came. She was almost 15.
I euthanized Queenie, my ACD, when she went into kidney failure. There was nothing else to do. She was ok one day, and terrible the next. No choices involved, but boy, was that tough. She was completely lucid, the same old happy, sweet dog she had always been. She was between 16 and 18.
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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