Shadow is not doing well. She is on again, off again on food. Other than having lost 1/3 of her body weight she is doing ok.
She sleeps most of the time. She walks in a way that makes me think she is hurting to some degree. There is a roach in her back. She has almost constant diarrhea.
She doesn’t often solicit pets from us. She hasn’t gotten a gleam in her eye for over a week.
When do you make the call with a dog like this? She could go on wasting away for a month, two months… Not eating enough to even maintain her current 20 pounds.
At what point do you say that she has lived a full life, has known happiness, a gentle hand and a warm bed and now her time has come? If she could choose, would she?
This is the hardest thing we must do for our beloved pets.
Sometimes that choice is made for us
Sometimes that choice is clear.
The hard part is do we wait till that choice is clear? Or do we let them go before the choice is obvious?
No one can tell us that. Not even Shay Shay.