AprilBlossom
Well-Known Member
Got a little chihuahua - 12yrs old, always been a stress head, lives for going mental at the postman/a pigeon outside/a friend he’s forgotten he knows... and has always had a heart murmur.
hes been slowing down a lot over the past few weeks and started coughing, but bright and active enough, just starting to feel his age a bit I guess.
He’s now looking like his breathing is fairly laboured at all times (high real rate) and he’ll still wag his tail a little but won’t get up off his sofa to see you when you come in, he’s reluctant to jump up or come upstairs (he used to sprint up at any opportunity) and I can just tell life is getting difficult for him.
Went to vets last night which exacerbated his symptoms and saw a vet I’ve never met before - she doesn’t know him and his crabby ways - who told me I should have him at overnight out of hours vet for intensive care treatment or put him down.
I took him home and he’s as comfortable as can be. My plan today that I’m agonising over is to try and get a vet out to come pts at home.
heart failure isn’t fixable; am I awful to be letting him go before I’ve tried dragging him through sedation and x rays and all sorts of being in a cage at a vets practice (without his family) to prolong him a few weeks potentially?
just after some honest opinions I suppose. Worrying I’m being callous to let him go potentially ‘a little early’ but then thinking the day too soon rather than day too late mindset, and that he would be at home with everyone around. Not dragged to the vets and all stressed up.
I’m very sad about it all
hes been slowing down a lot over the past few weeks and started coughing, but bright and active enough, just starting to feel his age a bit I guess.
He’s now looking like his breathing is fairly laboured at all times (high real rate) and he’ll still wag his tail a little but won’t get up off his sofa to see you when you come in, he’s reluctant to jump up or come upstairs (he used to sprint up at any opportunity) and I can just tell life is getting difficult for him.
Went to vets last night which exacerbated his symptoms and saw a vet I’ve never met before - she doesn’t know him and his crabby ways - who told me I should have him at overnight out of hours vet for intensive care treatment or put him down.
I took him home and he’s as comfortable as can be. My plan today that I’m agonising over is to try and get a vet out to come pts at home.
heart failure isn’t fixable; am I awful to be letting him go before I’ve tried dragging him through sedation and x rays and all sorts of being in a cage at a vets practice (without his family) to prolong him a few weeks potentially?
just after some honest opinions I suppose. Worrying I’m being callous to let him go potentially ‘a little early’ but then thinking the day too soon rather than day too late mindset, and that he would be at home with everyone around. Not dragged to the vets and all stressed up.
I’m very sad about it all