My 10 year old pit/boxer mix had, what appears now to be almost completely debilitating, leg injury about 7 months ago. It healed just enough to where he could walk with a limp.
Today, he has apparently aggravated that injury. Really can’t walk. I had to carry him up and down the porch steps to the yard. He groans with any movement laying down. It’s pitiful. Very hard to watch. The end seems pretty imminent. Hank has been my first puppy to death dog as an adult.
When did y’all know it was time?
Sorry you’re going through this, man
also, I’ll have to apologize in advance because it’s a pretty crappy story, but we lost our 13 year old bulldog a little over a year ago, and he had been dealing with all kinds of issues. Heart failure, degenerative joints, and a hard time holding food and water down to name a few. On top of that, he was going to the bathroom inside the house a lot towards the end.
Anyway, like you, I questioned whether it was close to being time or not for a solid year it seems because in my mind, as long as he was living and breathing, it wasn’t time yet. The thing is, though, I terribly regret all the angry things I said during those last 6 months due to cleaning up his messes, and his last 24 hrs were awful because he was just suffering so much.
Letting an ol’ boy go is a terribly hard thing to do, but as others have said, if it seems like it may be time, there’s a good chance it is. Trying to hold on for too long is something you definitely don’t want to regret doing.