My prayers with you. I had the heartbreaking duty to put my girl border collie down and the very last act she did was to give my hand a lick before the sedative took effect then the last needle. I never ever want to have to go through that again. Yours is a beautiful looking dog.
I’ve had to go through it several times.
I always hope the look in their eyes is; Daddy, thank you.
Every time it happens I hold them in my arms and all I can think of is how much I love them and I don’t want them to go, I think they know that, (i hope they know).
When my Old Rawlly went in 91 I swore I would never put myself in that position again, it took me 5 years to realize that life without some mangy old hound from the pound that nobody else wanted was just not worth the effort.
Since then there has been BIG JACK, MY HONEY-BUNNY (JACK and HONEY went last December and June, in that order) , and now HEIDI ( plus Billy, Rosy, and Penny, before my MOM died she made me promise that I would give her boys and girls a good home, I have).
My vet thinks I am a crazy man, I heard him tell his assistant that Heidi had won the lottery when I brought her in for her first doctors appointment.
All my boys and girls have been pound puppies and castoffs, even my wife thinks I have a screw lose when it comes to dogs, but I just can’t conceive of life without a dog at my side.
When I die at least I will have known that I gave a bunch of boys and girls a good life.