I had to put my greyhound down recently due to him suffering with kidney issues. He was only 7 years old. We have been to the vets many of times and found out due to rescuing him from racing his kidneys would get worse and worse over time.
We went through two years of waking up every night , keeping him in one room as had to guard him as even though we had the best quality food he was not getting the nutrients out of the food and kept managing to get hold of things he shouldn't of. This was making him very ill every other month or so. We had to muzzle him when in the garden as he would eat his own poop. Once or twice a night we were waking up.
This was making him have a poor quality of life and causing issues between me and my wife. He was a little before his time and it has absolutely crushed us to let him go but the vets told us we done everything we can and gave him a good home. It was 50/50 poor quality of life for both the dog and us and also relief 50/50
It just feels the second we done it that we killed him and just want him back 😭 we are thinking with our hearts. We had many occasions we could if stopped and turned around but we didn't. The vet showed us his kidney levels and said it's the pain you have to go through now that the dog don't have to later.
Just wanted to see if anyone else has had to make that hard decision to put a dog down before it's time due to given each other poor quality of life.