This is a hard decision. My old dog Grover was very old (23) and at the end we made the decision for him. He was still, like your old Wiley, eating and moving about. The thing that sealed the deal was my mom coming home from work to find he had fallen on the kitchen floor with splayed legs and could not get up. Who knows how long he had been there? Good old Grover really needed the kind of constant supervision and care old people need when they get to that lever of decline. Only good old dogs can't hire a nurse to sit with them.
Sometimes we are kinder to our animals than we can be to the people in our lives. I understand your difficulties in reaching your decision and I wish you a gentle peace no matter what you decide. It is clear anything you do will be done out of love and a compassionate heart.
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Date: 2011-02-25 04:49 pm (UTC)Sometimes we are kinder to our animals than we can be to the people in our lives. I understand your difficulties in reaching your decision and I wish you a gentle peace no matter what you decide. It is clear anything you do will be done out of love and a compassionate heart.