I’ll try and keep this brief.
My dog is being put to sleep next weekend and it’s literally the worse torture I’ve ever experienced knowing that it’s going to happen.
He is nearly 10 and has been struggling for some time with faecial incontinence. We’ve persevered with this for around a year since original vet diagnosed a genetic condition in pugs which means, in short, his spinal column is weak and the back end of his body is starting to shut down.
Recently he’s been getting worse incontinence wise, every day he poos in the house and he’s most recently been just doing it in his sleep and laying in it.
I got a second opinion on Friday from another vet and his prognosis was the same. He said that his condition will deteriorate rapidly, as the increased incontinence has shown. He said we need to PTS within the next few weeks at most if we don’t want him to become completely paralysed and he’s confident that he’s already in some pain which again will only increase.
I am an entire wreck. I can’t stop crying and I actually feel depressed for the first time in my life.
The guilt I feel about having him PTS is killing me inside.
I think it’s getting to me that he can actually be quite spritely. When we get his harness and lead out he’s straight there, practically running. But then within a short time he’s stopped or slowed down in a way that makes me think he physically can’t make it.
He staggers when he walks and the vet said he’s lost nearly all muscle capacity in his back legs.
I don’t know exactly what my question is, I just need some reassurance that I’m not being a murderer because that’s how I feel.
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Dog being PTS and it’s torture
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Originalusernameunavailable · 02/02/2020 10:51
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