- 24 Jun 14, 13:04#405797
Mambo has been with us for 12 years, he's a big black english lab and has had a good life running around an acre of land, barking at horse and buggies, chasing geese and the occasional squirrel. At this point in his life, he's got respiratory problems where he's always wheezing, his hips are gone and he takes a minute or two (literally) to get up. Often times he's unable to do so by himself and I have to put a towel or a sheet under him and lift him. He has a hard time getting in and out of the house now because we have a couple of steps that he needs to climb to get into his room.
We had a dog a few years back that was a rescue dog, and had him for about a year and he wound up getting to type of autoimmune blood issue and went from seemingly healthy to having to put him down in the span of four days. But we didn't have him long, Mambo has been a family member for a long time and so my question.
At what point is the balance between, love, suffering, difficulties, etc where you've had to put down a dog?
We had a dog a few years back that was a rescue dog, and had him for about a year and he wound up getting to type of autoimmune blood issue and went from seemingly healthy to having to put him down in the span of four days. But we didn't have him long, Mambo has been a family member for a long time and so my question.
At what point is the balance between, love, suffering, difficulties, etc where you've had to put down a dog?
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