I think it's time
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:20 am
Last week Inca was 15 years old, We'd had her little party a bit early as I wasn't sure she was going to make it, then she picked up again but since yesterday she seems to have decided its time.
She only ate fresh chicken, not interested in playing with her puzzles or eating treats, usually even if she doesn't want her dinner she'll eat treats.
I contacted the cremation service for which I'd paid in advance a while back when I didn't think she was going to make it, but had no reply yet. I'm wanting a reply about when they can pick up Inca after the vet had PTS, so doesn't look like it will be today as its lunchtime already here. I think my brother was going away for Easter so unless I do it before this Friday he's not likely to be around if he hasn't already gone away and its my step-mum's birthday Friday so really didn't want to be having to visit anyone just after the event.
I'll cook her fresh chicken again for dinner later to see if I can tempt her to eat something. I'm on my last tin of doggy chicken soup used which is the only thing she's been drinking and that puppy milk which she likes and has extra vitamins in (can be given to nursing dogs having puppies too or old dogs).
The sores under her legs aren't healing as she's in nappies full time and I'm constantly putting cream on them or trying to get air to them some of the time and she's not walking in the cart anymore. her front legs seem weak too and been noticing blood in her wee and poo lately. As she's lost lots of muscle but still seems to have a very round rib area I'm suspecting cancer or something but wouldn't put her through chemo at her age. Her third eye has been covering her eye too despite using eye drops and looks like areas of her skull are sunken. Despite this she has stayed very bright mentally up to yesterday always keen to get up and come out with us and enjoying playing every day and eating, no problems with her appetite up until yesterday.
So I think its time, hoping the cremation service will get back to me soon as I paid in advance around £400 (UK pounds sterling) for private cremation and to get her ashes back in a cast iron black lab statue (she looks most like a black lab though she's a crossbreed) and can't afford to pay anyone else again to do it. I'll get an engraved little wooden heart too with some of her fur and ashes in, which will go inside a pyjama case teddy she's been sleeping with.
It's an heart breaking decision to make and I've nothing but cry all morning. All I can do now is hope reincarnation is real and dogs really can come back to the same person in their lifetime to be with them again. (as I've been reading loads about reincarnation and stories of how owners knew it was their dog that had come back) and hoping she'll also be so desperate to come back she'll appear on my doorstep (or on a walk) a few days after her physical body has died.
She only ate fresh chicken, not interested in playing with her puzzles or eating treats, usually even if she doesn't want her dinner she'll eat treats.
I contacted the cremation service for which I'd paid in advance a while back when I didn't think she was going to make it, but had no reply yet. I'm wanting a reply about when they can pick up Inca after the vet had PTS, so doesn't look like it will be today as its lunchtime already here. I think my brother was going away for Easter so unless I do it before this Friday he's not likely to be around if he hasn't already gone away and its my step-mum's birthday Friday so really didn't want to be having to visit anyone just after the event.
I'll cook her fresh chicken again for dinner later to see if I can tempt her to eat something. I'm on my last tin of doggy chicken soup used which is the only thing she's been drinking and that puppy milk which she likes and has extra vitamins in (can be given to nursing dogs having puppies too or old dogs).
The sores under her legs aren't healing as she's in nappies full time and I'm constantly putting cream on them or trying to get air to them some of the time and she's not walking in the cart anymore. her front legs seem weak too and been noticing blood in her wee and poo lately. As she's lost lots of muscle but still seems to have a very round rib area I'm suspecting cancer or something but wouldn't put her through chemo at her age. Her third eye has been covering her eye too despite using eye drops and looks like areas of her skull are sunken. Despite this she has stayed very bright mentally up to yesterday always keen to get up and come out with us and enjoying playing every day and eating, no problems with her appetite up until yesterday.
So I think its time, hoping the cremation service will get back to me soon as I paid in advance around £400 (UK pounds sterling) for private cremation and to get her ashes back in a cast iron black lab statue (she looks most like a black lab though she's a crossbreed) and can't afford to pay anyone else again to do it. I'll get an engraved little wooden heart too with some of her fur and ashes in, which will go inside a pyjama case teddy she's been sleeping with.
It's an heart breaking decision to make and I've nothing but cry all morning. All I can do now is hope reincarnation is real and dogs really can come back to the same person in their lifetime to be with them again. (as I've been reading loads about reincarnation and stories of how owners knew it was their dog that had come back) and hoping she'll also be so desperate to come back she'll appear on my doorstep (or on a walk) a few days after her physical body has died.