[yorkietalkjilly]

You poor thing and your poor, sweet little Hanna - so thin you can feel her little bones, not healthy flesh and muscle. Oh no. I wish I could fix her for you right now, put her in your arms hale and hardy. Losing a dear, dear friend is one of the most stressful, gut-wrenching, lonely, painful times in any doglovers life. It's the ONLY downside of loving a dog - they have to leave us so soon. But if you can choose when to let her go, it should be far more emotionally easier for her.

If you &/or your vet feel your dog is no longer getting to enjoy a normal dog's life of running, playing, chasing squirrels, balls and living with only the joy dogs and babies/children seem to be able to achieve, or if she is living even partly in pain that can't be cured, lives in fear of daily pilling/injections, treatments/vets or has ongoing fatigue, struggling just to breathe or get thru a day, then, to me, it's the kinder, more loving thing to let her go, as painlessly and peacefully as possible, at an hour and place of your choosing, with her favorite blankie and toys and you there with her.

To have to euthanize a poor dog in the middle of the night after a fear-filled, stressful rush to the ER when emotions are raging, your stress level is at 1000% and the very sick dog senses every bit of our emotional state, is an added awful burden for a critically ill dog to have to bear on top of its present life-threatening condition. To me, a dog suffering needlessly just to hang on to a few more weeks/months of a miserable life is beyond horrible when that poor baby's suffering could be ended in a much more peaceful time and place and before that awful middle of the night rush to the ER ever comes around. I'll be praying for both little Hanna and you, dear one.