My dog is dying

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So sorry to hear this. It is difficult, but it is a responsibility that we all undertake when we take a dog or cat or other animal into our care.
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I'm in a similar boat currently. Our dach-mutt is 14. Lately he's had a cough that most vets say is allergies, and he's been panting more lately, which we just chalked up to a hot summer. However a vet-tech friend of our encouraged us to get our dog a chest x-ray. THey found a mass near his heart. Further testing indicated it's a tumor on the heart, slow growing, that is pressing on his trachea. We're fortunate that we caught it early, and that it's not a tumor on the blood vessels by the heart (which our vet said could bleed, leak into the paracardium around the heart, and cause him to go into arrest at some random future point). We've got him on meds to try and slow or reduce the size of the tumor, but we're under no illusions we can cure him. He's off a diet, getting lots of tasty table scraps now. Might have half to 3/4 of a year.
Not looking forward to the end point.
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It will be today. A house call vet will be here in a few hours.

I realized today that I took her home from the pound almost exactly nine years ago today.
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But she had nine good years, with people who loved her and cared for her, and will be with her at the end.
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First Shirt wrote:But she had nine good years, with people who loved her and cared for her, and will be with her at the end.
That is all that you can do, and it is enough even if it doesn't feel like it.
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Sorry to hear. Take comfort in the great memories w. her.
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Very sorry. It's the last service you can do for a beloved pet.
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Sorry JAG.
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Sorry for your loss, pard. I've been there. :(
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She's gone. The house call vet was worth it. She passed over the white cliffs and into the fields of green at home surrounded by her pack. She'll be cremated and returned to us, because we'll probably move at some point. I always told her that we'd get out West. It'll happen, just not in the way I expected.
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