Time has come, Steffi will be put down

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My dog was blind from the diabetes at the time I had torn my achilles tendon and had to come down two flights of stairs to give Tuffy an injection and to let him out. Because I was going up and down 3-4 times a day I WAS NOT GETTING BETTER, The doc said I needed to make a deccies The dog or live with a pain that got worse. Thanks to Marty my dog lived 3 more years and better than he lived here. He had a blind proof house with a huge yard and other pet friend and one was a cat that slept on top of him. They also found that he had other issues that my vet never found. Maybe if he had Tuffy would have been better http://blinddogrescue.com/page2.html Tuffy is near the bottom. I still cry when I think of him.

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Steffi was put down tonight. She gave me kisses, sweetest and toughest I have ever received. Her pain is done. Ours will go on for a while, but it was the right thing to do. I cried more with Steffi's passing than I did with my mother's passing.

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Oh, so sorry. That is such a hard thing to do, and a real act of love. I'm sorry for your loss.

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Steffi is now 14 year, 7 months old.
She has been a good girl, and had been with us for most of her life.
She is nearly blind, is using me as her guide.
She is on a couple pain pills twice a day, but giving her some extra this last week.
I sometimes feed her by hand because she can't see her food. She is generally eating just once a day.

We have made the tough decision that Friday we will be taking her on her final car ride.
The DW and I have been married 15 years in a few weeks. Steffi has been with us most of that time.
I think this will be the toughest thing I have ever done.
If there was a tear imodicon, it would be placed here.

I share your sorrow. Pets are like children and are extensions of ourselves.

We had a pet cat (TC) that live for almost 20 years. We reached the point where we thought that it would be morally better to put him down rather than continue to see him unhappy and in pain. The cat was "family" for us. But we knew that it was the right thing to do, but we hated to have to make that decision.

In the 24 hours from our decision to put him down, we had a strange series of occurances - - (1) As we were leaving to go to the vet, we saw a coyote just staring at our vehicle as we left (typically they are seen only momentarily and typically not during the day, (2) as I was burying my beloved cat, I saw a mountain lion staring at me and my wife. That has never happened before. I've never seen a mountain lion during the day. The next day after our cat was put down and we buried it, we had a rattlesnake trying to come into our garage. I've read that strange things come in groups of three. Well, this was a bit spooky.

So - - I share your sorrow..... A good pet, forever in our hearts, never to be forgotten....

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Steffi was put down tonight. She gave me kisses, sweetest and toughest I have ever received. Her pain is done. Ours will go on for a while, but it was the right thing to do. I cried more with Steffi's passing than I did with my mother's passing.

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I am glad to hear that I was not the only one who cried more when I put Monkey down than I did with my Mom. I thought there was something wrong with me. Try to think of the good times you had with her and know that you did the right thing.