Pets, it turns out, also have last wishes before they die, but only known by veterinarians who put old and sick animals to sleep. A vet was asked what was the most difficult part of his job. He answered without hesitation that it was the hardest for him to see how old or sick animals look for the eyes of their owners before going to sleep. The fact is that 90% of owners don't want to be in the room with a dying animal. People leave so that they don't see their pet leaving forever. But they don't realise that it's in these last moments of life that their pet needs them the most.
Many vets ask the owners to be close to the animals until the very end. "It's inevitable that they die before you. Don't forget that you were the centre of their life. Maybe they were just a part of you, but they are also your family. No matter how hard it is, don't leave them. Don't let them die in a room with a stranger in a place they don't like. It is very painful for veterinarians to see how pets cannot find their owners during the last minutes of their life. They don't understand why the owner left them. After all, they needed their owner's consolation.
Veterinarians do everything possible to ensure that animals are not so scared, but they are complete strangers to them. Don't be a coward because it's too painful for you. Think about your pet. Endure this pain for the sake of their sake. Be with them until the end."
@exexec yeah and a previous lab, I moved a bed down to the kitchen to be with her and finally encouraging her to transition, and her last breaths, at least she had someone who loved her, with her
Me and my parents stayed with my dog till the very end. It's the saddist thing I've ever had to do but I knew it was better for Jasper (my dog) that we were there.
my beautiful corgi was dying and I built a shelter on the porch to keep the rain off her cause she didn't want to come inside. When it got worse and it was getting summer and I knew she wasn't going to make it much longer and didn't have a vehicle and a neighbour suggested that another neighbour was a hunter and maybe he would lend me his rifle or help me end the suffering sixteen year-old..but he didn't want to do that, so I laid her beside the tree in the shade and walked 7 km to go to the post office to get a vet number from the bigger town and then got a cel signal and got a taxi 45 minutes later while I was walking back and we got her to the vet's and I carried her in and insisted to be with her ,and they administered a sedative before the euthanasia dose, and I will be eternally grateful that I was with her when she recognized, then passed away. I buried her where I see her grave whenever I go to the creek, and think of her daily
@atlantic59 I'm so glad you didn't shoot her, it would have been terrribly painful and a dreadful way of ending her life. Not only that it might have taken more than one shot and the first one would have been agonising. It's good you got her to the vet to be put to sleep gently.
Jenny Jinya is an illustrator that does a very compassionate animal Reaper series, I have been following her on facebook for years, none of her drawings leaves me dry eyes.
@NativePortlander1970 I could never see the grim reaper as compassionate some how. Good artist, but not the friendly, loving face you'd want them to see in passing.
@Jemimapuddleduck When I was 17 I read the Incarnations of Immortality for the first time, the first book in the series was about the Reaper, called On A Pale Horse, he portrayed Thanatos, aka the Grim Reaper, as compassionate, an Incarnation that brought pain and suffering to an end. For example, when my Grandfather was dying of cancer in 1992 he was in so much pain his dr prescribed lethal doses of morphine that should have killed him within a day, instead it put him in a weeklong coma, to which he eventually passed from it, he had been rendered to nothing but skin and bones. Understandable we were all affected by his passing, but reading that book a few years earlier helped me deal with his death far better than the rest of the family. I was also his favorite grandchild, he meant the world to me.
