In 2002 we had a 3 year old schnauzer who became ill very suddenly. Off to the emergency vet. Long story short, he had hemolytic anemia. My husband and I had no experience with this. So we agreed to the preliminary treatments of blood transfusions, chemo, doggie ICU, oxygenated kennel...etc. Once into the process, we agreed to more of the same. It kept him alive for 2 weeks. I went down and held him for an afternoon. When I got home, the Intensive Care vet called me and Max had gone into convulsions. I told him to put him down. It was a crisis and I was an hour plus away. My husband wanted to do more and I said "No....at this point it is selfish of us to put him thru any more of this". Cost was over $3,500 dollars and I swore I would never put another pet of ours thru this again. Cost does becomes a factor when the possible outcome is not at all positive. Of course they didn't tell us that in the beginning.
Max was so much a part of our family that we made a family album just for Max. We grieved his loss. Making the album helped.
Max was so much a part of our family that we made a family album just for Max. We grieved his loss. Making the album helped.