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Oubliettes posted...

is it in pain or just a pain in the ass? my dad's cat is 20 and it's mostly deaf and has like cat dementia or something, kinda just paces around in circles, has a big cyst on her face, and has to be spoon fed. he told me he won't put her down because he thinks it's fucked up to just kill something because it's old and has health issues. compared the cat to my 92 y/o grandma who is in a nursing home and basically the same way (dementia, etc.). tbh i'm inclined to agree with him. if the animal is still eating and ambulatory why would you just kill it?

The first dog was clearly in pain about a year before they finally put it down if not longer and then they finally decided to do it (on my birthday ironically) because they woke up and the dog wouldn't move.

The dog they have now, she has said wakes up howling and they don't know why. She pisses their bed, gets disoriented and runs into walls. She can't eat as much because her teeth are literally falling out. On top of that, she has seizures every other day. She's also on something like 3-4 meds a day.

To me, that indicates an animal that is probably not unhappy a lot of the time despite what they do for it. My MIL also always has to have either one of her or her husband at the house at all times, or they take the dog with them because she's worried she'll come home and the dog will be dead on the floor.

This weekend they came up for my daughter's birthday and when they were getting her out of the car, the dog just fell out of the car.

This is no quality of life imo.

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Father of 3