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Don't know if this has been shared here before. (Original Post) The Polack MSgt Sep 2021 OP
Nothing like a good cry before bed Rorey Sep 2021 #1
It made my Living room pretty dusty too The Polack MSgt Sep 2021 #3
Tender, sweet love jmbar2 Sep 2021 #2
Beautiful. Cry alert. emmaverybo Sep 2021 #4
Beautiful, but hard to watch. I felt like I was invading their privacy but that bond pulled me in. Tadpole Raisin Sep 2021 #5
All too well here too. Duppers Sep 2021 #6
Thanks for reminding me what's real peacebuzzard Sep 2021 #7

Tadpole Raisin

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5. Beautiful, but hard to watch. I felt like I was invading their privacy but that bond pulled me in.
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 11:57 PM
Sep 2021

I had that conversation with my dog when she got older. I started wondering about it when she didn’t wake up as I walked by, normally lifting her head up and making sure I wasn’t going to leave without her.

When she started limping I had this weird feeling I needed to take an X-ray, and all by myself at night I looked at the hollow radial bone in her right front leg, knowing what that meant.

The oncologist looked at her and said well if she was 10 I might not recommend surgery and then I watched his face change when I told him of her upcoming 10th birthday. But she looks so good he said.

Am I doing this for me or for you? Do I have the right to do this? Do I have the right not to do it? How can I explain to you what you will go through? She just looked at me. Trust in the eyes of a dog.

We did the surgery and we had some more time together but more than that I can’t say now. It’s too hard.

But she trusted me and for that I will forever be grateful.

I understand that video all too well. Thanks for posting!

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