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Caring for a sick pet can take a major toll
CBS News ^
| Sept. 19, 2017
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Posted on 09/20/2017 8:49:19 AM PDT by AuntB
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NEW STUDY! Unless you've been there, and done nearly 3 years of care for a sometimes paralyzed, sick animal, you have NO idea how this can alter your life. No more than 4 hours away from home...24/7 care, it never stops, it's filthy, disgusting and makes ya sick EVERYDAY. Not to mention how it completely screws up your social life. And expensive!!! YOU have no idea. I took care of my ailing, old parents, my babies and everyone elses...THIS is MUCH worse! So think twice before you get a pet...it could be years of sacrifice of your own life.
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posted on
09/20/2017 8:49:19 AM PDT
by
AuntB
To: AuntB
Aunt B, with all due respect, you are nuts.
I pity your ailing, old parents as you took care of them.
To: AuntB
Put down the animal. If it’s that sick, yer doing it a favor.
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posted on
09/20/2017 8:54:55 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
To: AuntB
We lost our Shep/Lab rescue - 14 years old - earlier this year to a fall, which revealed bone cancer. We were so despondent. What really helped was rescuing another one and welcoming her to the family two months later. Siberian Husky whom we adore.
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posted on
09/20/2017 8:56:55 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: AuntB
They’re pets! When they fall ill with life ending illness’s, put them down.
If you noticed they only asked this demographic.
***To explore the idea, her team focused on 238 adult pet owners. Nearly all were white and female, at an average age of 48. ***
Wow!
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:02:04 AM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
To: AuntB
The dog probably needed to be put down. I’ve had many dogs over a lifetime and never had the problems described. But then I’m not the type to give chemo to a sick dog.
To: AuntB
You just do it because it’s the right thing. We can bitch about it but that just serves our own need for attention.
It’s hard no doubt. Suck it up.
I’m caring for an elderly parent. In two years and nine months I’ve been away overnight a total of six days and one of those was for a funeral.
Just do it.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:05:40 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: US_MilitaryRules
And what do you do when the Vet says NO! Vet says it’s for ‘my convienience’ and they won’t put him down. You have no idea how this can destroy your life. Try it for 3 years.
So what is wrong with the demographic...that’s the age and sex that ALWAYS caregives!
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:06:23 AM PDT
by
AuntB
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To: Responsibility2nd
Wow. You are a jack ass and have no idea of which you speak. Looks like FR has been filled with idiots.
Good bye.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:07:10 AM PDT
by
AuntB
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To: AuntB
When our dachshund lost control of his bodily functions, I fed him the bones from an entire slab of ribs and we put him down. He was old and had had a good life except he never got over our daughter moving away from home but he was a dog, I had two special needs children, and my mother was in hospice.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:09:23 AM PDT
by
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To: AuntB
The study group was a bunch of attention whores.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:10:03 AM PDT
by
waterhill
(I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
To: AuntB
And what do you do when the Vet says NO! Been there. Done that. There are alternatives that do not involve a veterinarian.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:12:02 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
To: AuntB
I seriously doubt a vet would not put down an animal that was terminal or chronic. Do you have any friends in rural areas?
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:13:25 AM PDT
by
waterhill
(I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
To: AuntB
YOU are the one with a problem here. You are placing a greater value on a dog than you are for your own parents.
It's MUCH worse (your words) taking care of a dog that should have been put to sleep? You are cruel. I wouldn't let you near my pets. Much less actual people that deserve better than you.
To: AuntB
You find a vet who will put the animal down.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:13:59 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Many safe, humane methods that can be done inside city limits even.
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posted on
09/20/2017 9:15:57 AM PDT
by
waterhill
(I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Thanks for your comment to Aunt B. Have to agree...Aunt B is nuts.
My daughter specializes in pet pain management and this article is exactly right. Pets in pain really affect the pet owners as much or more and Vets have to work with both the animal and human side of the suffering.
I was going to thank Aunt B for posting this; my thanks are tepid because of her awful comment.
Being in my 60s, our family has had to deal with elderly ailing parents as well as the loss of pets, so we know what it takes in both cases. We just put our 14 year old dog down a couple months ago and it is a terrible decision to have to make.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
If the vet’s patient is put down, that vet loses revenue.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts; AuntB
I suspect the vet said no, because he saw Aunt B as an easy target.
Instead of doing the right thing and putting a suffering animal down, some vets con owners into spending (wasting) thousands of dollars.
All the while - the poor pet suffers.
And I’m a “jack ass”? Hoo boy.
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