Got a call from the vet this morning with Talisker's biopsy results

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Talisker had lymphoma of the gut - completely inoperable and not cure-able.

I know none of you on here doubted my decision, but I doubted myself from time to time during the past week when I was feeling particularly low. This has set my mind at rest once and for all, and I am so pleased I made the right choice for Tal, and that he can continue to RIP free of pain.

You have all been fabulously supportive and wonderful over the past few weeks, and I cannot thank you enough. Sorry, that sounds a bit like an Oscar acceptance speech by a Hollywood lovey! But I really do value your support and I wanted you all to know it
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im so glad it turned out you made the right decision for your dog and now you can stop fretting about it, its horrible when the what ifs start going through your head but you were right to let your dog go.
 
Im still very sad for you loss, but i am sure these results will now make the grieving proces so much easier knowing you really had made the right decision!!!!! ( not that i ever doubted you decision in the first place)
 
Don't get me wrong, I'm not glad he was ill, but since you decided to euthanize him, I'm glad that the result was the way it was, so that you now know beyond doubt that you made the right decision.

However, had the biopsy result been different, I still would have told you that I believed you made the decision. You said it yourself, if it was something treatable, it still wouldn't have been cured as fast as with a snap of the fingers. It would have taken time to get it sorted and he didn't like being at the vet's + he was getting old, so there were a big risk you could have let him go through something lengthy, only to have something else turn up and end his life.

But it's one thing to know in your head, that you've made the right decision, and another one to know it in your heart. So for your sake, I'm glad the result was what it was.



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My Bassett hound Freud was very ill suddenly one day, we were going to take him to the vets for a routine dental work (he was 10) but instead of routine dental work we asked the vet to find out why he wasn't eating properly for while so they did exploratory operation. They found huge tumour in his stomach. it was inoperable/uncurable so we had let him go on the op table. I knew that i won't see him that evening cos i already said my good byes before my parents took him to vets.

I am so sorry for your loss, But least you had made the right choice for his dighity. Run free Talisker.
 
What a shame Acolyte..but at least you can be 100% sure now that you made the right decision for him. You knew him better than anyone and made your decision based on that knowledge the results have only confirmed you were right. He's playing with all his new friends now, free from pain. Maybe he has met my Holly dog!!
 
So glad you made the right decision at the right time for your lad. His time had come and you simply helped him on his way. No owner could have done more. RIP Tal
 
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not glad he was ill, but since you decided to euthanize him, I'm glad that the result was the way it was, so that you now know beyond doubt that you made the right decision.

However, had the biopsy result been different, I still would have told you that I believed you made the decision. You said it yourself, if it was something treatable, it still wouldn't have been cured as fast as with a snap of the fingers. It would have taken time to get it sorted and he didn't like being at the vet's + he was getting old, so there were a big risk you could have let him go through something lengthy, only to have something else turn up and end his life.

But it's one thing to know in your head, that you've made the right decision, and another one to know it in your heart. So for your sake, I'm glad the result was what it was.



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Ditto

I can not say it any better.
 
You were so right to let him go when you did then. I expect you already knew it was the right thing but as someone else said, the what if's creep up and get you wondering.

It's nice to come on here to get and give support as we do go through the mill with our babies sometimes don't we.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not glad he was ill, but since you decided to euthanize him, I'm glad that the result was the way it was, so that you now know beyond doubt that you made the right decision.

However, had the biopsy result been different, I still would have told you that I believed you made the decision. You said it yourself, if it was something treatable, it still wouldn't have been cured as fast as with a snap of the fingers. It would have taken time to get it sorted and he didn't like being at the vet's + he was getting old, so there were a big risk you could have let him go through something lengthy, only to have something else turn up and end his life.

But it's one thing to know in your head, that you've made the right decision, and another one to know it in your heart. So for your sake, I'm glad the result was what it was.



FinnishLaphund put it perfectly. I hope the results banish the "what ifs", Talisker was a very lucky dog to have you as an owner.
 
I'm sure that you made the right choice anyway, but it's nice to have the onjective confirmation.

We had the same thing with Catembi & his bowel complaint - he kept getting better & worse, then was 'cured' then suddenly worse & it was so tricky to call 'time'. But the vet who did the post mortem said there was no way he'd have recovered.

Still a horrid time for you - hope you start to feel better soon.
 
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