Loss of a Beloved Pet

I'm so sorry for your loss. I recently loss my little Kairi on the 11th and it is so painful. The grief is real and it takes time to process, so I pray for you healing, blessings, and wonderful memories of your beloved furry family member.

Not to be mean, but you should have not given him all those pills!! That was a slow and horrible death for him. My stomach just turned to think of all the side effects he had on top of his cancer pain. The vet's do not charge that much to humanely put him down. From 11am to 1am he suffered a great deal. I'm sorry, but don't EVER do that again to another animal. I'm sorry for your loss, but that was cruel.

We took our senior cat, as a last resort, to have vet euthanize him and it took seconds for him to go, not hours.

This is horrible. I have sympathy for the dog, but very little left over for the OP. The last hours of this animal's life must have been confusing and awful.

Yes. I feel badly that I responded with such sympathy, not having read too closely the original post. An overdose in an animal is just the same as it is in a human - terrifying, a complete loss of control, and panic inducing. That's horrifying. A quick call at an emergency vet clinic would have likely done the euthanizing for cheap and much more humanely.

How exactly is taking a suffering animal to an unknown place and handing it over to a stranger to be injected NOT panic inducing? We pat ourselves on the back and say euthanasia is better, but it's not. Also, if you'd read some of OP's later comments, she said that the clinic wasn't open in the middle of the night. So the dog would've been in horrible pain all night anyway, no matter what course of action was taken...

My dog also had cancer and was euthanized in October after a year of fighting it when it got too bad. The euthanasia was NOT 300 and I did not hand my dog over to some stranger. My fiance and I were both in the room with her stroking her head after they gave her the initial sedative and then the euthanasia injection. The whole thing took 5 minutes and .my vet left the room for us to say our good byes to her before she was cremated

I would also like to add, in addition to the bladder cancer, she was hiding how bad her arthritis was from me. In 2 days, she had stopped eating and could no longer make it down my stairs and I was carrying her to go outside. By the end of the second day, she could no longer stand up herself and was no eating or drinking. How is me letting my dog starve to death and lay in her own filth because she can't stand up more "moral" than taking her in and ending her suffering?

And how do you know that these drugs are infact painless? Have you had the procedure done on yourself? No? Then you really have no freaking idea do you?

I do not know. But the heartbeat that stops in a matter of 30 seconds, that takes a previously yowling animal in obvious pain, as opposed to a long overdose that takes hours to kill them, would seem to point to a quick and painless death.

Those who claim there is never a reason to put an animal down have never seen their animal at the point of death and in pain. That changes your opinion on what is humane and what is not.

You're right, I haven't seen an animal like that, because I have not been present for any of my pets being put down as it happened after I moved out and I did not get any say in the matter. It made me angry, though, that I was neither informed nor asked permission before it happened. And I watched my own mother die in front of my eyes, and saw her pain even though she was so doped up on morphine she was essentially in a coma.

Death is not humane. No form of it is. Making the onset of it quicker, through whatever means, does not make it one bit more humane, UNLESS it is in someone's will to be euthanized or the "right to die" is exercised, as in cases with long-term coma patients. And unfortunately, animals cannot give that sort of consent, so how are we to know whether they'd want it or not?