It just sucks all around. I mean, just to walk in the door they charged me $136, then another $237 in tests to find out what is wrong with him, then $36 to euthanize him. I mean, this may sound shallow, but on top of the effing emotional roller-coaster my wife had to go through yesterday, our bank account gets raped, and that just to kill the guy, not to save him.
On another note, it really sucks when you have no time to prepare. One day he is a healthy, happy-go-lucky 2 year old rottweiler, and 36hrs later he is half dead from his immune system going haywire and his white blood cells attacking and destroying his red blood cells. You think he may have eaten something bad so you take him to the vet and then 3hrs later your are making the decision to put down a dog you have literally known since birth. Even harder on my wife because I got him for her as a birthday present and he was her main companion for a year when she lived on her own before we got married.
And not that either of us put animals on the same level as people...we don't idolize them and feed the steaks, and buy them foo foo outfits from the pet store, and let the do whatever the heck they want, but that almost makes it harder because those things are easy to do, what is hard is actually treating the dog like a dog and actually giving it what it needs; structure, discipline, affection, etc, all at the right times. He was doing very well with his obedience training, absolutely loved kids, and kids loved him back. It's just so hard to look at the guy and have to make the decision to put him down. The dog literally dying in your arms is just terrible, no matter how "painless" it is for him. If making this decision was so hard with a dog, I can't even imagine having to do it with a person. I feel like a little bitch because I never thought I would be this torn up about putting a dog down and it scares me at how if this situation is so hard on me, how am I going to handle the more difficult things that life is going to throw at me? A person? A family member? A friend? I know many of you on here have lost family and friends and my condolences. A pet is nothing compared to a person, so I don't want you to think I am trying to compare the two because there is absolutely no comparison. It's juts hard to deal with...
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