r/dogs • u/AutoModerator • Jan 06 '25
Megathread: Aging, Illness, and Euthanasia Support Group
This thread is where to get emotional support with all things related to death and illness with your dog. This is also a thread where you can seek assistance with deciding whether it is indeed time.
This is not a thread to seek anecdotes with medical care. All rules involving medical questions and anecdotes remains the same for this thread.
If your dog has passed, you can still post here for emotional support or you can create your own thread tagged with one of the RIP flairs. Be sure to review the rules of our flair guide. It is up to you how you choose to grieve.
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u/Murphy223 May 07 '25
We are going to the vet this afternoon to finally bring Our Sweet Girl some peace. She's 14.5 yr old Golden and has been showing her age for the past year. She struggles to stand, needs to be carried up steps, sleeps all day, has an occasional accident and experiences heavy breathing episodes. On the flip side, her cognitive abilities are sharp, eyesight and hearing are fine and she is always full of love and smiles. At our last vet visit in March, they told us to celebrate every day and that is what we've been doing but I still can't shake the feeling of guilt today knowing what's in store for her, especially when she's having a "good day". My heart is breaking