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Originally Posted by lspencer534

It is almost inevitable that your pet will die before you do. So, when you have to take your pet to the vet for a humane, pain-free ending, I want you to know something: You have been the center of their World for THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!!! They may be just a part of yours, but all they know is you as their family.

And I beg you: DO NOT LEAVE THEM! Do not make them transition from life to death in a room of strangers in a place they don't like. The thing that most of you need to know but don't know is that THEY SEARCH FOR YOU WHEN YOU LEAVE THEM BEHIND!!!

They search every face in the room for their beloved master. They don't understand why you left them when they are sick, old, scared, or dying from cancer, and they need your comfort.

Don't be a coward because you think it is just too hard for you; imagine what they feel when you leave them in their most vulnerable time. and the vet is left to try to do his best to comfort them, make them less scared, and try to explain why you just couldn't stay.

Have had to do the final with a lot of my pets. Have one right now (Maine Coon Cat) that is in the last stages of a untreatable kidney disease. He is not in pain but has lost a lot of weight an cannot jump no more. He is still eating and drinking and sleeping OK. We believe in quality of life and know his end is getting very close and we will be there at the vets.