[jp4m2]

I'm so sorry your having to even think about this decision. As hard as it is you have to think of the pets quality of life. Is she/he able to eat? Go to the bathroom? Show some kind of pleasures in life? Is she/he in pain? etc. etc.

I too was confronted with this agonizing decision. All I could do was say to myself, how can I do this to my friend, my companion, my heart?? I just can't do this, I won't do this. .....But I had to come to the realization this is not about me. I owe this final decision to my baby to do the right thing. This is not a time to be selfish. A far more dangerous form of selfishness is to prolong a pet's suffering simply to postpone my own.We all must make these decisions based on our own pets, not on what anyone else did, is doing, or would do. Our individual choices are ultimately the right ones.

The painful truth is that if your pet is terminally ill, and especially if it is suffering and unable to function, it will die; the decision you must make is not whether its life will end, but how, and how much discomfort you are willing to allow it to endure.It takes courage to assume this last duty and it is our last responsibility to a pet which has given us love and companionship.

I wish you strength, courage, and peace in making this difficult decision....