You might remember my 15 year old rescue dog Meg who was attacked by a neighbour’s dog nearly four weeks ago and had emergency surgery? Well, she seems to have recovered pretty much from her ordeal although she is very withdrawn and much more unwilling to go on walks which I can understand.
We have had to use incontinence pads around the house for a while as she sometimes left a tiny damp patch after sleeping heavily (which she is doing a lot of the time) but recently she seems to just be weeing at random in the house despite having constant access to the garden and us still persevering as much as we can with regular short walks.
We took her to the vet last week as she wasn’t eating and was moaning and crying a lot. He examined her, couldn’t find anything specific wrong with her apart from her recently diagnosed heart murmur and just told us ‘she is just a very old dog.’
Sorry for the rambling post but I’m worried that this might be Meg beginning to suffer and I’d hate to think we’re just keeping her going for our sake. She doesn’t seem ill but just like there’s no joy in her life.
How do you know when it’s time to say goodbye? 😢