Dog leukemia?
My daughter's Shih-Tzu Bailey went quietly to the Rainbow Bridge last Saturday. While we were in Florida, my daughter had called saying he seemed tired/was losing weight. She took Bailey to our vet ...
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toedtoes wrote:
Those who regret the decision of chemo the most are those who chose it because they "couldn't bear to lose their pet" and would do anything to keep it alive. They realized afterwards that their decision was based on their own selfish reasons and not on what was right for the animal.
I think this says it all. We all love our pets and want to keep them with us, but we have to ask ourselves if that pet will still have a quality life.
My daughter is a practice manager at a Veterinary Hospital. The main owner truly loves all animals and will go to any extreme to save one and for her own pets clearly has virtually everything at her disposal to attempt to do so. She had an elderly dog with Leukemia and did everything, including chemo (which they do at their hospital). My daughter said she felt sorry for the dog having to keep on living in the agony it was in for many months.
We have had one dog with cancer and another with a degenerative spinal disease. My wife and I set criteria, based on info the vet gave us on how the disease would progress, on when we thought the quality of life for the animals would be impacted to a degree that there would not be quality left. Hard as it was, when that time came, we had them put down. As hard as it was on us, it was the right thing to do...for them.
