Letting our dog with CHF go...absolutely devastated and racked with guilt

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

OP, you did the kind thing.

[Deserterer]

Originally Posted by LifeIsGood01

That was my opinion of the situation as well as all of the other people who knew him and the dog. Every time anyone tried to approach the subject he would get upset.

That's because it's none of your business, so he had good reason to get upset. Suggesting that someone should put their dog down is forbidden on this forum, and it should be in real life too. That's because its an incredibly insensitive thing to even "approach". If its not your dog, its not your business, unless you are asked. No matter how much you and "everyone" think you know better than the owner.

As someone who is not the dog owner, your only role is to support the person in their difficult time. The dog is none of your business unless it is being abused. Choosing to care for an old or sick dog rather than euthanize them is not abuse. Its every owners unique and always very difficult decision.

You didn't know the situation so you are being judgmental about me, which makes you a hypocrite.

That's nonsensical.

[LifeIsGood01]

Originally Posted by Deserterer

That's because it's none of your business, so he had good reason to get upset. Suggesting that someone should put their dog down is forbidden on this forum, and it should be in real life too. That's because its an incredibly insensitive thing to even "approach". If its not your dog, its not your business, unless you are asked. No matter how much you and "everyone" think you know better than the owner.

As someone who is not the dog owner, your only role is to support the person in their difficult time. The dog is none of your business unless it is being abused. Choosing to care for an old or sick dog rather than euthanize them is not abuse. Its every owners unique and always very difficult decision.



That's nonsensical.

You are very judgmental.

[jaxandopie7]

Thank you all for your kind responses. I spoke to both my family vet and the emergency vet who treated him. My family vet said she would have advised us to let him go as well, had we gone to see her. She said his little body was just so frail, and him collapsing was his sign to us that he couldn't keep on fighting anymore. I still feel in my heart that we should have tried harder, asked more questions, maybe brought him for a second opinion. I think what kills me is that up until his collapse, he was acting "normal" (his normal was sleeping all day), and at the vets when he was in the oxygen cage he was barking because he gets anxious at the vets. It kills me thinking maybe he wasn't as far gone as the emergency vet led us to believe. We made the decision with his best interest in mind, with the information we were given, but I still feel like I failed him. I hope this feeling passes soon.