Should I put my dog down

What should I do with my dog?

  • Have a Vet put her down

    Votes: 26 54.2%

  • Let her die of natural causes.

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • other

    Votes: 15 31.3%
  • Total voters
    48
Sebastian

Sebastian

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For about 6 months now, my dog has been paralized in her back legs. She cannot walk at all and cries out to be moved. She also shits and pisses over her self constantly and it is like trying to take care of a child. The problem is that my parents want her to die of natural causes and not have her put to sleep. This may happen two weeks from now, maybe two months. But as it is I can no longer tolerate her constant whining and am thinking of taking the law into my own hands. I would use starting fluid to put her to sleep so that it would be silent and painless for her. So what do you think? Should I take the law into my own hands or let the loud, miserable dog die naturally?
 
I would say yes, the time has come.

No sense letting her suffer indefinently
 
That's what I thought too. This dog is more miserable than any dog i've ever seen, and yet my folks refuse to see reason. I guess they had a dog put down once and it was too hard on them, so they don't want to go through it again.
 
They should think about how hard it is on the dog being in that state!

Whatever you do, don't take the law into your own hands. That's got to be the worst idea I have ever heard. Try talking to a couple of veterinarians in your area about it and see what they have to say. If life really is that much of a struggle, then perhaps euthanasia is the right way to go, but talk to some people with experience in that area before trying anything yourself! Please!
 
with starting fluid?!?!

what? how's that work!?

I'd go to a vet and have them do it humane-ly
 
Starting fluid has a chemical that just makes the dog go to sleep. It is practically the same as taking it to a vet. Basically it is the most humane way that a person can put down an animal.
 
VictimOfScience said:
They should think about how hard it is on the dog being in that state!

Whatever you do, don't take the law into your own hands. That's got to be the worst idea I have ever heard. Try talking to a couple of veterinarians in your area about it and see what they have to say. If life really is that much of a struggle, then perhaps euthanasia is the right way to go, but talk to some people with experience in that area before trying anything yourself! Please!
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My parents won't be convinced in putting it down, so I really have no other choice in the matter.
 
And how would you administer the starting fluid???
Sounds very crude to me.

Either take it to the vet or do it properly at home, a shotgun or your boot would work well....put a bit of food on the end of the shotgun so it comes up and sniffs the barrel.

Nah, term isn't that evil, take it to the damn vets man, it's illeagal doing it yourself (at least in UK) iirc.
 
its also 50 dollars to have it put it down, which I can fricken afford.
 
You know there are cases of dogs with paralysed hind legs living perfectly happily, right? http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1905000/images/_1909369_dog300.jpg It may look ridiculous, but I can assure you dogs aren't particularly self-conscious. And it doesn't have to be anywhere near that complex - that was the only picture I could find on short notice, but I've seen footage on the news and documentaries where the owner basically just had a plank with wheels affixed to the back of their dog.

I'd say no. Especially if you're going to kill it with starting fluid, which doesn't sound particularly quick or painless to me. If you're going to put your dog down at least do the decent thing and pay a vet to do it, or be a man and hit it as hard as you can in the head with a sledgehammer or something. Have you even seen a vet about this? I hope your dog hasn't just been lying in constant hopeless agony for 6 months.

I know it's a tough decision but I firmly believe you should be prepared to exhaust every avenue of care for your dog, or else you shouldn't have been looking after one in the first place.

I put my own dog down at around this time last year. We took him to a vet because he was listless and could barely walk, and the vet prescribed some arthritis medicine. This appeared to work at first but then the week after he was constantly yelping in pain - after he started shitting blood we went back to the vet and the vet suggested putting him down. HOWEVER the vet wouldn't give me an explanation what was wrong or the likelihood of fixing it. I wasn't going to settle for some bullshit logic of 'well, we don't know what's wrong, but let's put him down to be safe. Easier for you guys eh?' F*ck that. I left him in there overnight on a drip and came back first thing in the morning to see how he was. It was clear by then that there was something wrong with his liver since he was jaundiced, and he was clearly suffering a lot and poisoned blood was making its way to his brain. Even then, until they had established exactly WHAT was wrong with his liver I wasn't going to allow them to kill him - I shelled out for an X-ray and when that showed some kind of growth or inflammation, I grilled the vets on the possibility of opening him up and having a look. By that time my dog was in a bad way, since they had had to take him off the drip to x-ray him, but when the vet told me he was old enough that anaesthetic might kill him anyway I finally gave in and conceded that he probably wasn't going to recover. So I gave them the go ahead and I was stroking his head when he died. Ironically it is very likely that the arthritis medicine they gave him, Rimadyl, is what caused his liver failure. I read up about it and asked the vet about the dangers of the drug before my dog got really bad, and he assured me it was very safe. Yet more evidence that you should never listen to a f*cking word anyone says, ever.
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1570235&postcount=35

I've always been as poor as a church mouse, but it cost me hundreds of pounds to even go as far as I did in making sure what was wrong with my dog was irreversible. Had I still believed he had a chance I would have gladly paid 100x that amount. He was one of the only things I really cared about and I've pretty much wanted to die ever since. But I don't regret my decision to kill him. I did it with a totally clear conscience because I was sure there was no alternative. My opinion is that you should do the same. To be clear, I'm not saying don't put your dog down in any circumstances, just make sure you've done all you can before you make your decision.
 
This is a bad dog that I never cared for AT ALL. She was always a vicious, unaffectionant bitch. She is part blue healer, part german shepard, so it has a bad disposition. And it has been in miserable, whining agony for the last 6 months or so. She shits and pisses on herself, and about every hour she will do it. She is not only miserable to death, but she is also a burden to those that take care of her.
 
So kill the dog and kill yourself while you're at it.
 
Terminator said:
And how would you administer the starting fluid???
Sounds very crude to me.
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There is something in it that attracts them, the dog will just lick it up.

I think you need to end it's pain, don't let it suffer any longer.
 
make a website with a countdown. strap a stick of dynamite to her neck and let the fundraising begin! I'm sure you'll have 50 dollars in a short time
 
Stick a rocket up it's ass and fire the vicious, unaffectionant bitch at Kim Jong-il.
 
Baserape> said:
Stick a rocket up it's ass and fire the vicious, unaffectionant bitch at Kim Jong-il.
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I should punch you right in the ovaries.
 
cant u buy it one of those little cradles with wheels, this way it can still run around & piss etc etc.

Bit for a long term answer i wud but the little thing to sleep.
 
Other.

Be a ****ing man and kill the dog with your physical force if you hate it that much. Don't take some pussy way out with starting fluid, you chickenshit. Clearly you don't want to deal with it, nor do you want to bother with a veterinarian.

I hope that after your lengthy, quiet contemplation while watching your pet shit all over itself and whine in agony, you can muster the balls to do something about it. ****face.
 
Sebastian said:
its also 50 dollars to have it put it down, which I can fricken afford.
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if you can afford it you have an obligation and responsibility to put it down humanely ..and no, despiite you assurances I dont believe for a second you're qualified to put down a dog yourself ..do the right thing and bring it to a vet. You accepted the responsibility to care for your dog when you bought/adopted it, follow through to the end.
 
Let's also remember that this is only one side of the story. His parents, who are probably doing the lion's share of cleaning up the piss and shit, are content that the dog is better off alive than dead.

Sebastian, you posted thread because you already know what you want to do and you just wanted some vindication and backup from other people. I hope this thread doesn't give it to you! There is probably still more you can do for your dog, you just don't want to do it because you don't like it. I suspect you never even saw a vet when your dog became paralysed.****ing lame.
 
Joking aside...if you can afford to keep a pet you can afford vet fee's. You really should look at harness's for your dog, you never know being mobile might help her cheer up.
 
Baserape> said:
Joking aside...if you can afford to keep a pet you can afford vet fee's. You really should look at harness's for your dog, you never know being mobile might help her cheer up.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_1909000/1909369.stm
That's where I got the pic I posted earlier. That harness cost £60 which is only slightly more than it cost me to have my dog killed, and that's Thailand, not exactly a world leader in medicine.
With a bit of effort from its owners I'm pretty sure this dog we're talking about could have a few more happy years of life.
 
yeah, you guys are right. I'll talk it over with my parents and see if they want to have it put down or get it a wheel chair. And Laivasse, I did take care of the dog for over 6 months by myself. I was in college at the time and I had to put with a lot. The damn thing would wake me up in the middle of the night with whining because it was lying in a pile of its own shit. If they don't have it taken to the vet, i'll have to do it myself. (where I live you have to have the owner of the pet give consent before having the animal put down.)
 
Sebastian said:
yeah, you guys are right. I'll talk it over with my parents and see if they want to have it put down or get it a wheel chair. And Laivasse, I did take care of the dog for over 6 months by myself. I was in college at the time and I had to put with a lot. The damn thing would wake me up in the middle of the night with whining because it was lying in a pile of its own shit. If they don't have it taken to the vet, i'll have to do it myself. (where I live you have to have the owner of the pet give consent before having the animal put down.)
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All right then, apologies for the assumption. I searched a bit and found some US-based dog wheelchair places, but they're expensive. There are also lots of stories about people building their own very serviceable versions out of cheap parts. Some guy even mentioned that his vet jury-rigged a cart together for him. You should impress upon your parents the fact that if they refuse to have her put down then they should be stumping up that money for the chair, or at least helping you to come to a solution which doesn't involve leaving the dog to lie there dying in misery.
 
Laivasse said:
All right then, apologies for the assumption. I searched a bit and found some US-based dog wheelchair places, but they're expensive. There are also lots of stories about people building their own very serviceable versions out of cheap parts. Some guy even mentioned that his vet jury-rigged a cart together for him. You should impress upon your parents the fact that if they refuse to have her put down then they should be stumping up that money for the chair, or at least helping you to come to a solution which doesn't involve leaving the dog to lie there dying in misery.
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The most urgent problem at the moment is putting the dog out of its misery, which at the moment is terrible. If that involves buying a whell chair or putting it down, I'm prepared to do both. Thanks for the advice people.
 
What I expected when I entered this thread:

703%20Dog%20show%20man%20carrying%20dog%20enlargement.jpg
 
I think CO poisoning from the car exhaus would be the way to go
 
This thread makes me feel ill.

Just take it to the ****ing vet.
 
lePobz said:
Lollerskates? I don't know, they seem simple enough to make ... DIY it.
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We looked into it for our dog, the proper ones are quite expensive. As for DIY, you'd have to be sure that your dog is supported properly otherwise it could be in a lot of pain.....
 
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