at 4:30 pm (Mountain Time) yesterday I had an appointment with my veterinarian, I took my dog in to be put to sleep.
he was an old dog, he was 14 years old, and had a lot of health issues, he was half blind due to cataracts, and had severe arthritis, however the big thing has only come out in the last couple of days
a few months ago when I took him in for his yearly checkup, they found an abnormality in his liver, but at the time the vet though it was just a bit of a fatty deposit and benign,
well in the months since he's been sick off and on, and we kept thinking it was re-occurring kennel cough, despite the fact that he rarely has contact with other dogs, but the past few days things have gone severely downhill
he had been having frequent seizures, muscle spasm, problems breathing, his poor little heart would race like a jackhammer, he woudn't eat, he had trouble sleeping, and mostly would just wander around in a confusion like he didn't know where he was, until he collapsed and lay there whimpering and moaning
he was clearly in a lot of pain and suffering and there was nothing I could do for that, he had something severely wrong with him and with his advanced age, I doubt it could have been fixed to where he could have had a good quality of life any more.
he went peacefully, when the vet administered the injection, he layed his head on my lap and closed his eyes and he was gone
it was the best thing for him, but it was such a hard decision to make.
I'm just happy that he's no longer suffering, but I will miss him so much.
