My oldest boy (6ish, he's a rescue) isn't doing too well at the moment. It's nothing specific, in himself he seems ok, bright-eyed, moving about etc, but slowly lots of little things have been building up. Over the last year he's started to lose weight, to the point where he sometimes feels skinny when he's always been a little fatty. Then I noticed a scab on his side, which gave way to a lump growing out of his skin. It doesn't hurt him and it's not open so obviously there's some type of tumour there. Then over the last couple of days he's become extremely fussy with his food, which has been happening on and off but at the moment he's only eating tomato, kale and grape and he also seems to be having a bit of trouble picking things up, although when he's got them he seems ok so I don't think it's anything to do with his teeth.
Anyway, all this boils down to the fact that his time is obviously coming (sometimes you look at them and you just know, don't you?). The difficult question is do I pre-empt it and take him to the vet while he still seems fairly content and therefore send him off relatively happy? Or do I wait for a couple of months until he clearly isn't happy anymore? If I do the first one I run the risk of feeling like I cheated him out of his final moments, and if I do the latter then I'll feel guilty he had to feel noticeably bad before I made the decision.
I hate this bit :0
Anyway, all this boils down to the fact that his time is obviously coming (sometimes you look at them and you just know, don't you?). The difficult question is do I pre-empt it and take him to the vet while he still seems fairly content and therefore send him off relatively happy? Or do I wait for a couple of months until he clearly isn't happy anymore? If I do the first one I run the risk of feeling like I cheated him out of his final moments, and if I do the latter then I'll feel guilty he had to feel noticeably bad before I made the decision.
I hate this bit :0
