The time has come. Helpful advice and experiences please.

When Chlo has passed I will feel more able to do an in depth post for future reference for others (and for closure, I suppose).

The truncated version is that she has developed other, more serious symptoms. We aren't sure what they represent but we know they're not good.

Because of all your insulting and upsetting comments, rather than trusting the vet (and the three others I've spoken to who agree), I will be speaking to him again today when hopefully he will have results that will prove that she does indeed have organ failure.

I will update you with results later.

I would like to add a small point, im going to try not to get too bogged down in it. I have had now three offers to 'save' Chloe from me-only one from a source who actually might have the capacity (not that she can be saved but...). I have had 18 different abusive PMs on here, one in particular calling me a murderer and a dog abuser. Another told me that at least when Chloe is dead she will be away from my 'disgusting mistreatment'.

I think it's fairly obvious how upsetting I have found these totally ridiculous claims. To posters who have emailed me support or genuine advice I hope I have replied politely but I'm sure I havent as I'm out of my mind here, so I apologise.

To the many (thankfully more-just) well-wishers, the vets who have agreed with my decision and the numerous people who have offered me their experiences-interestingly quite a few saying after the barrage of abuse I've got they dont want to post what they did on the forum-thank you, I haven't replied to many im sorry, I will try to in the near future.

I'm now going to put all those abusive messages on UI-and spend the last few days with my girl, who can now barely get up from her bed and is pretty much unresponsive except for the odd hours here and there.

I suppose the last thing I want to say is this. No matter how upset, how outraged, how angry you are, nobody, but nobody, is more upset than me. After all my baby girl has been through-after all I've nursed her through-shes now at her end, and my god, none of you are more upset than me about it.
 
Well I think the moral of the story is that if anyone posts on an open forum about emotive issues such as the death of a young dog they need to provide the full picture as to why otherwise people will fill in the gaps. If they don't or choose not to then don't be surprised that animal lovers will kick off about the death of a dog at the age of 2.

I offered my dogs story in the hope the OP could see death due to itchy skin is not necessary. if thats not the full picture then i'm sorry but I didn't know what the full picture was.

OP - if you only want what you deem as 'helpful' comments then I suggest you ask friends and family in RL only as it will save you from distress.
 
'Because of all your insulting and upsetting comments, rather than trusting the vet (and the three others I've spoken to who agree), I will be speaking to him again today when hopefully he will have results that will prove that she does indeed have organ failure. '

Good. Because organ failure can't be diagnosed without blood tests. So if you were going to just 'trust' your vet to visually diagnose the dog with organ failure then I'm glad we've changed something.
 
How sad for you and your dog. BUT, if you only post a small fraction of what the problem is you are going to attract a big debate. I would personally speak to RL friends and family in future as this has obviously distressed you.
 
Hi Cedars, I haven't read any of the replies to your post as we had our beloved rottie put to sleep 3 weeks ago and I would find the replies too painful if they are a bit emotional. So sorry if this repeats what others have said.

I do feel for you, I honestly do, and as I am still very raw I will keep this purely practical.

Our dog was put to sleep at home. The vet charged about £125 in total for the home visit and the drugs involved, he was here about 40 minutes as he gave her a sedative first and this took about 15 minutes to work before he gave her the lethal injection. She was down to about 30kg too when she died so it should be a comparable cost.

We decided to have her cremated and had her ashes back on what they call a scatter box which is a pretty cardboard box- this cost about £140. If you want an urn or a decorative box to keep I think the cost is considerably more. We had her cremated with her blanket and her ashes took about 5 days to come back.

Our vet had a leaflet about making jewellery or paperweights out of ashes so you may find your surgery has some info on this.

if you would like any more info feel free to PM me.

My thoughts are with you at this terrible time x
 
Cedars said:
I will be speaking to him again today when hopefully he will have results that will prove that she does indeed have organ failure.
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Tests confirm what vets already knew. X
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Oh dear that's very sad. I was hopeful for the opposite results to you in that the tests would not prove she has organ failure. What organ is affected and do they know why the organ has been affected? I have no experience of this in dogs but I do know that some horse blood tests in certain situations can throw an organ failure result when it's not the case. I had this once with a horse of mine. I didn't believe the results and had the bloods retaken and tested and it threw up a healthy horse who's still with me today years later and the initial problem proved to be easily treated. Sorry that's probably no help to you but I felt, for Chloe's sake, it might be worth letting you know.
 
Despite the OP posting on a public forum and asking advice, I would say that it wasn't rocket science to work out that she was talking about more than itching!

Yes people are going to fill in the gaps if they don't know the whole story - and a lot of them are obviously going to get it wrong and spout off with all guns blasting. There could be another moral there for other people perhaps??

As for carrying on picking at this thread now, there is a time, if you're not big enough to be nice, to let things go!!

To the people who abuse strangers on PMs I have no idea what is in your heads - if anything!
 
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