wow
*croak
damn frog in my throat, that's what it is.
To prev poster - I've decided that there will be no hip replacement for stalin, too. I doubt that if I had the same condition I would myself undergo a hip replacement - I'd rather go out with the same loadout I came in with.
But all this talk about "merciful end" - should we really do this? One day StinkyStalin may not get up at all, and have the condition persist for a week, two weeks, a month - then should I put him to sleep?
What if he's happy crawling around?
I mentally prepared myself for putting Stalin down the first night I brought him home, back when I didn't know if he would survive even the first night - I'd give him a hug, hold him close, and put a HP at that little area at the base of the skull so he won't feel anything at all.
But now that I've spent so much time - although only a few months... I just don't know if I would want to do that. But would I be keeping him from dying as he would want to just because I hope that he might be happy disabled?
At the vet's today I saw a female dog with 3 legs, 1 chronically arthritic, 1 major internal surgery scar stright down the middle, two patches of skin clearly unable to grow back fur....
that was one F-ED up dog.
but perhaps she was content?
I'm willing to keep paying for the upkeep of a disabled dog. I'd want my wife to do that for me, and I would do the same for her. But...
sigh*
