[JuliannaB]

Originally Posted by yipyap

I sympathize with your decision to let vet help place your very ill little pup. As he says she may not get well, but face series of these seizures forever. If see has no pain, then she may enjoy a carefully medicated life. I had to chose to put my old Miniture Schnauzer down (age 8-9) when he was covered with large, bleeding scabby sores. We first thought antibiodics had helped + scrubbing off the scabs with plastic brush + special skin lotion. After 3 years, a 2nd vet said Bart's problem was from his slowly failing kidneys (a problem w/ Schnauzers), not a grass allergy nor flea bite allergies as the older vet had diagnosed. I felt like quite the lowest of humans when I had to take him to be put to sleep. By then, he was rubbing his bottom and thighs so hard against the porch sides & cement floor that he was bleeding. He was a miserable, but let me handle him. He did snap at our 2 year old when she touched his head to pat him, but he purposely did not bite her.
He was returned to me in a heavy cardboard box with his collar & leash on top.
Like several dear pets, he is buried on our back, high pasture under a tree.
You can try your best to save a pet, but you must consider the animals quality of life. As a nurse, you know about pain & suffering first hand. My own mother died of ALS (Lou Gerhig's Disease) and when she could barely move at all, nor talk, nor blink, she used her knarled hand & a letter board to push the spelked words asking to be put to sleep. But, all I was allowed "legally" to do (with signed medical power) was to let nurses give her morphine & let the developing pneaumonia take her after 2 weeks. Her nurse agreed with me that in such terrible cases it was so terribly sad that an intelligent patient could not elect to be put to sleep and not continue to choke and suffer. (Gehrigs does not affect your ability to think!). I would not let any dog or pet of mine go through what she did!
I certainly think you have done all you can, and each person knows when they have truly reached their limit of watching suffering. Love from - Sue & Taffy

Agreed! Also, sorry to hear about your Bart Tough decision when you loved so deeply and did what was in Bart's best interest!