Our lovely gentle black lab, Cal was put to sleep at 3 30 yesterday aged 11 and half. He had been diagnosed with systemic cancer in february and had been slowly deteriorating since. Yesterday morning while we were staying at SIL and BILs we came downstairs to find that he couldn't get off his bed at all and wouldn't eat or drink and his back legs had gone. We'd been lifting him into the boot of the car for a week or more as he was struggling to get up himself. He'd seemed to be in some pain around his groin and his front legs too.
We rang the vet to get an appointment and came straight back home. We had to carry him into the vets, who examined him and said she thought the tumour may be pressing on nerve or maybe something else and there wasn't anything she could do to help him except temporarily relieve the pain.
We made the hard decision. Poor Cal. We feel so sad and bereft
Our 4 year old lab has known him all his life and has never been on his own.