putting your pets down,when it needs doing.

putting your pets down,when it needs doing.

i have to put my british bulldog saxon to sleep today.did not think it would be so hard,been my best friend for over ten years.i am just waiting for the vet to get here and then it is over 10 years of frienship gone.the house will not be the same without him.what do you do after they go, get a replacement and do it all over again or do you not get another pet so you do not have to face the end again.

My family has had to put down two cats. What we did was, for each of them, had them cremated and put the ashes in a pot plant, sort of like a living memorial.

You can never get a "replacement". Perhaps one day you'll get another pet to take your dogs place, but it can never take away the ten years of happiness and companionship you had with the other. All it can do is hopefully provide another decade more

My condolences mate, losing a pet is never easy.

10 years.  My word. 

I hate this it's horrible and unfair.  The only thing I can say that he must have been very lucky to have such a fine friend and owner and when you are ready there will be another small doggy who deserves to have such a brilliant protector looking after him or her.

I guess also you have to ask if Saxon would have wanted his life any other way and because you loved him so much I reckon he'd think probably not.

Same goes for you Stevo - sorry didn't notice it was an older thread. But the feelings behind my post are for all of us that have to go through this.
ForteanTimes2011-03-21 20:47:50

Horrible thing to go through. We had to put our dog down after about 10 years of her living with me. To be honest it was my sisters dog and they give it to my Dad. He hated dogs but grew to love this one. They were in sepretable. My Dad suffers from depression and has not had a job for ages so is in a lot of money. As he described to me this dog was like his best friend. I was upset when we had to put her down I can only imagine what he had to go through.

It also happened very quickly she got sick took her to the docs found out it was cancer, It could be fixed if we had the money but we didn't and still wouldn't even know if she was going to be okay
NHpeter2011-03-21 20:57:55

Just saw this thread my condolences Stevo, me and mum had to get her cat put down today after a short fight with cancer, really emotionally experience after 5+ years of friendship.

over two years later and i finally got a new dog, a friend had to move flats and he had a white bulldog he had to get rid of.at first i said no do not want another dog but he kept on asking, i met the dog and took him home for a couple of days to see what he was like, and he fitted in so easily at home that i have had him six or so months now and very glad i did.

We had to put one of our cats down recently. Had him since just after we moved to NZ. Just started getting really thin and not eating over a matter of 2 or 3 weeks and was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour in his mouth.  I can sympathise, it hits you a lot harder than you'd think. Jag2011-03-22 12:17:22

When I was 16 we had to put our Dog down, got septicaemia after a hysterectomy. My brother was 13 at the time, and I think we had had the dog 7 or 8 years or so.

That was very traumatic, as especially as Lassie knew something was up and how upset we were, the morning we had to take her to the vet to put her down, she sat on the floor in the hall and refused to leave.

Even my dad, who similar to the post above hated dogs but grew to really care for her, shed a wee tear at the vets whilst the lethal injection was being put in.

you guys will never beat me !! christmas just been i ran over our pet cat on the driveway and killed him  poor kitty he was only 8 years old geez did i feel bad .Merry christmas family