Your poor mother she was doing the dog right,as i have said the good thing about being an animal is that they do not have to suffer"That may sound horrible but it is the truth,I dont want to think about loosing my babies but when it is there time i will do whatever i can to keep them from suffering,May Twiggy rest in peace now!!I have a friend that lost his dog last fall i was so mad at him the dog was bleeding from both ends wierd thing was he was so sick he could not move within 2 days he was running around acting like a puppy,I told them over and over get him into the vet and they never did 2 weeks later Percy was found out in his dog house gone,They had said to me that they would shoot him before putting him down i dont know how anybody could do such a thing but some people,Now these people are great people but Scotts dad was like that he never took the time to get the animals in he delt with it himself,But they were also farmers i dont know but i think that he was so used to the way he seen everyone else with the animals,Anyways Percy was 17 rotti shepherd mix he will not be forgotten!!he was one of a kind and i miss him everyday!