I have a rescue Basset.
She has bad cherry eye and developing cataracts and vet says no further eye surgery will help much.
She has grown a number of 'fatty lumps' which have needed surgery in the 4 years we've had her (she's around 11 now) but other than almost no eye sight and the lumpectomies has been fairly healthy.
She is very neurotic and does not cope with being left even to go into another room so she is very 'tying' but we love her and try our best.
But, she has developed a nasty ear infection and we can't seem to get on top of it. Vet says swabs show 3 separate well-established infections including 'profuse strep, proteus, and psudomonous (sp?)'. Vet feels there is no antibiotic which will treat all 3 and that it will be a very long haul as her ear is quite damaged already. We went through this, including a double inner ear removal with a spaniel some years back and wouldn't want to put another dog through it.
She also has a large weeping lump on her shoulder that vet says cannot be removed with the level of ear infection and it keeps opening and bleeding.
I feel that the time has come to let her go as she has a number of other lumps under her skin and I just feel the next few months at least will be lots of sedated ear flushings and treatment and surgeries. Before the ear infection was just beginning to lose her back legs sometimes when she stands and she shudders a lot in her sleep now.
I need to face it, don't I?
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PTS seems the only Option :(
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StripeyChina · 15/04/2019 22:46
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