Quote}2) My dogs WILL SURELY die of breast cancer or pyometra when they are about TEN OR ELEVEN years old; instead of surviving until they're seventeen as flakey-skinned, smelly, blind and bug-eyed, toothless, hobbling, skin-and-bones, falling-down-the-stairs, senile, wrecks. <My hot button>
It's NOT that I do not love my dogs. To the contrary. The worst, cruelest thing to do to a dog is carry it's time past the point of "companionable condition", and their own ability to have "fun"."
My God, am I reading this right?
I have such a problem with this statement. First I know many dogs that are enjoying thir senior years with great vitality long past there 12th year. To think there lives would have been cut short because the owner didn't spay and they die of cancer or pyometra instead sickens me. How about this scenario instead, IF the dog has lost her zest for life and no longer is enjoying good days then humanely put her to sleep instead of letting some horrible disease eat up what life she does have left?
I won't let my nearly 10 yr old german shepherd and best friend read this, this morning he was leaping thru the air playing Kong and didn't look like he wanted to die next year. And this is a BIG dog. Typically they do not live nearly as long as our little yorkies.
When the day comes that I no longer feel he is enjoying his life I will make a decision I feel is best for him, however hard that may be. But to guarantee him cancer? No, I don't think so.
But thanks for posting the breast cancer stats, I waited til Mignon went thru her frst heat to spay. |