Can we talk dogs?
- Thread starter Kevin B.
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16 years… we may not be the best pet owners, but she has lived a good life. Inside dog, lots of love and attention, joined us on many adventures until she slowed down too much.
I just made a home visit vet appointment to have “the” talk about how to make her more comfortable and plan for the end
we haven’t been to the vet in like 10 years, are they going to give us a guilt trip about that?
I just made a home visit vet appointment to have “the” talk about how to make her more comfortable and plan for the end
we haven’t been to the vet in like 10 years, are they going to give us a guilt trip about that?
Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
Vet never said anything to me about not seeing me ever before.
Worst part of pet ownership right here. Sorry guys!16 years… we may not be the best pet owners, but she has lived a good life. Inside dog, lots of love and attention, joined us on many adventures until she slowed down too much.
I just made a home visit vet appointment to have “the” talk about how to make her more comfortable and plan for the end
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
16 years… we may not be the best pet owners, but she has lived a good life. Inside dog, lots of love and attention, joined us on many adventures until she slowed down too much.
I just made a home visit vet appointment to have “the” talk about how to make her more comfortable and plan for the end
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Tough thing to do. Not looking forward to it again. We have a few years but you can see the slow down starting. We are just coming up on 8 years with our last dog. Looking fwd to not having hair around, poop on the grass and such. Not looking fwd to him not being around and "the day". "The day" kind of sucks.... Nothing else that can be said about that
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
It's been a year since our Shelby blew a knee and she's now 13. We've been medicating her with anti-inflammatory and pain meds and she's doing "OK", but she's still 2 years old in her head, so she tries to run and chase the little dogs and hike the hills. She actually does all of that, but she really feels it for a couple days after each event. We're about to spend 10 days at our property and she has free roam there. She loves being there, but it's literally shortening her life.
It's better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way
Houndoc
Registered User
- Location
- Grantsville
Any vet who tries to make you feel guilty is in the wrong.16 years… we may not be the best pet owners, but she has lived a good life. Inside dog, lots of love and attention, joined us on many adventures until she slowed down too much.
I just made a home visit vet appointment to have “the” talk about how to make her more comfortable and plan for the end
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I do at times have to try to very diplomatic in educating a client when a specific health problem should have been seen sooner (does not sound like your situation at all) while not compounding grief with guilt. My intention is to never make a client feel guilty.
Tonkaman
Well-Known Member
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- West Jordan
16 years… we may not be the best pet owners, but she has lived a good life. Inside dog, lots of love and attention, joined us on many adventures until she slowed down too much.
I just made a home visit vet appointment to have “the” talk about how to make her more comfortable and plan for the end
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Update… the vet was extremely considerate, put her on anti inflammatory and pain meds, which made a noticeable difference. She was more active and was able to get around better. I’m glad we did so she would be comfortable for her last couple weeks.
She passed unassisted without warning last night. It has been rough, we got got her 3 months after we married. She’s been a good friend through all of life’s challenges.
A few memories….
I was always excited to get past the puppy stage, but she was a pretty dang cute puppy
She was never a good trail dog, every time we took her out she almost got ran over, mostly just because she liked being close to people
She was always super patient with the kiddos(top one was this week, beach with the twins was like 5 years ago)
She literally ate my textbook in college
Probably because we tortured her, but she was always a good sport
My all time favorite pic of her, taken by Levi in like 2010 at sand hollow (he used to be on here I think)
Rest In Peace old friend.
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- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Good perspective. Tough day
Thursty
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Green River
It’s always tough to lose those good doggos. Sorry your loss.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Best damn Jeep Dog, ever.
anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
- Location
- Price, Utah
Sorry to see you lost a pup. Great place to bury him/her
Thursty
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Green River
Damn😢
Thursty
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Green River
Retrievers are nerds. She is dead asleep in this pic. 😂
SLC97SR5
IDIesel
- Location
- Davis County
- Location
- Smithfield Utah
My Husky Sidney passed in April and my Golden Olly passed this Friday. We loved them with all our hearts it was so damn sad to watch them go. They both lived to a ripe ol’ age but it’s always too soon isn’t it?
It was a tough decision but my family and I all agreed we needed a puppy to fill the hole in our hearts. Well here’s Winnie she’s a 12 week old Aussie-Doodle. Oh boy what fun haha.
It was a tough decision but my family and I all agreed we needed a puppy to fill the hole in our hearts. Well here’s Winnie she’s a 12 week old Aussie-Doodle. Oh boy what fun haha.