Found out something sad tonight

[KitchenWitch]

My mom's dog has cancer...it is inoperable...he is on painkillers until he can no longer function, then he will be put down.

This dog is a cocker spaniel, pekingese, poodle, and will be 14 in December...

:cry:

[billyskank]

1. ...

:hug:

[Heidi]

2. Oh, wow. I'm so sorry, KW.

My parents' little dog is sort of like a "sister" to me, and I know the hell they're going to go through when her time comes.

Love, guidance and protection to your parents and their boy. :hug:

[Robeson]

3. So sorry to hear it KitchenWhitch. It is truly sad....

...:hug:

[NMMNG]

4. Oh, the poor dear

May his last days be filled with love, and as painless as possible. :hug:

[bliss_eternal]

5. Oh no--I'm so sorry!

:hug: How is your mom handling it? It's so hard to find this out about their loved ones...

A very good friend of ours went through this a few years ago. They could treat it, but the treatment would have been very long, and painful--he couldn't put his little guy through that--and laid him down. Still breaks my heart. He was family to all of us...

I'm very sorry about this.
((((KitchenWitch))))

[KitchenWitch]

6. My mom is currently pragmatic about it

Not too much emotion yet....she is more concerned about how my 4 year old is going to take it.

[bliss_eternal]

7. Awww-

kids have a hard time w/losing their animal friends--heck, so do we so called adults. I hope however your little one takes it, isn't too hard on you...

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

8. Thanks b_e

We will be fine...circle of life and all that...

[WCGreen]

10. Circle of life is very cool way to explain death and birth....

[KitchenWitch]

11. I think it is one my 4 year old can grasp part of

since she is a Lion King freak!

[WCGreen]

12. Its also comforting to those of us who have

the end game in sight.......

[KitchenWitch]

13. yes, that too

:hug:

[WCGreen]

14. Not that I am dying or anything.....

But to have been to the edge....

It is comforting....

[Clintmax]

9. Awww...Kitchen...

I know how it feels to have to put a pet down. Something similar happened to our dog "Babe". She got cancer and had to be put down. We all cried and cried. :cry: I'm soooooo sorry. :hug:

[RebelOne]

15. Poor baby. But I am sure he had a happy life.

14 years is a long life for a dog.

[In_The_Wind]

16. I'm very sorry, KitchenWitch

You have my sympathy ~ ~ ~ as your mom's dog is nearing the Rainbow Bridge

[UrbScotty]

17. Oh KitchenWitch

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. My dear KitchenWitch.....

This is always hard news to bear....

But it might help to remember that our pets are helpless in the face of such pain and illness....

They rely on us to take care of them, and to put them down when their lives become unbearably painful and difficult...

We must relieve their suffering when the joy is gone from their lives, no matter how much it hurts us...

They trust us to take care of them...and we must not fail in that duty...

Nonetheless, it is hard...I've been there...blessings on the pooch and those entrusted with his care...

[MrScorpio]

19. I'm so sorry to hear about that

Life is cruel sometimes