riley

[plumaria]

So, yeah. Wow. I looked at my recent journal entry and it was about dear Alan, - my neighbour down the street, husband of one of my best friends, who collapsed and almost died of a brain aneurism. He amazingly survived. He has 'dense' loss of his left side but with assist can walk and move around. He is cognitively intact. He has a long way to

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[flemmarde]

i know you wrote to me about this but it's sad to read it in more detail again. the end is so painful, but worth it for all the wonderful love and friendship that one shares in between.

strange that our old timers go within a week of each other

[bushwalker]

How sad. To be loved like that by anyone/anything is precious so you must feel the loss. I hope you are able to create a comfortable ending for him at home. RIP.

[yvonnenavarro]

It's so very hard to do, even when you know the animal is suffering. We had to put my Dad's cat, Sugar, to sleep at around the beginning of April. He had her for 13 1/2 years, and he's 78 years old. What other companion at home does he have? And he won't get another, because he's afraid he'll die and then the animal will be unwanted (not). We both cried -- she had a cancerous mass growing in her lower jaw.

I've been told, and I don't know if this is true, that there is a pill that the vet can give you for your animal. Supposedly you can give it to the dog at bedtime, and he or she just goes to sleep like normal and passes quietly while they sleep. Again, I don't know-- it's just what I was told by someone who had a 17 year old pup that was really going downhill.

I'm so sorry about Riley.