This is so terrible that you have to go through this. My mother-in-law had a boxer that could not walk what so ever, he also had cancer. She refused to put the poor thing down even her vet said he didn't want to. Everytime I went up to VA I saw this poor baby wasting away. Bad thing, she finally decided to do it and my brother-in-law went out and shot him without her telling him too. His reasons were, "you were going to waste $60 in putting him down anyway and I needed to borrow $25 for gas". She gave the freak money !!!