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Shoot that old dog !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My old "shotzie" is a bonafide 18 years old she has led a good life,never went to bed one night without a full belly.
Now she is old and sick,medicine is costing $400+ a month,think I oughta just shoot her and save some money ?
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good luck
 
If she is not suffering don't worry about 400 a month, dog like that is worth a whole lot more. If she is suffering take her to the vet an let them give her a shot an let her go in peace. Least thats the way I feel but then I like dogs more than people.
 
How could you shoot her? :cry: Shame on you for mentioning that.

Take her to the vet and hold her while they give her the shot. That's
what we do. They just go peacefully. Too bad the good ones don't live longer.............but
I guess that's why we get to have several dogs in our life.

18 is really old for a blue heeler. That's a tesimony to the good
care you have given her all her life. Don't let her down now.

Good luck...I feel for you having to make this decision...it's so
hard to put down a good dog...
 
$400 a month for good help for 18 years was a good deal.
If she is in pain take her to the vet. Around here its only $10 and you take her home and give her a nice resting place.

I am sure you were not serious about shooting her. I am sorry your friend is at her end.
 
Dont worry ladies, shotzie would have to cost me much more than $400 a month, sometimes I like to remind folks about the costs associated with these so called "free dogs"
old shotzie just had breakfast and is sleepin comfortably on her horse blanket,and I have got to get my lazy butt outside and get some chores done......................this evening
good luck
js
 
18 years old, holy schmoly !
You must have done something very good in your life to deserve a loyal, hard worker and best friend for that long HM. :wink:

I sure hope Nikki is healthy and with us as long ..


Dr U came out to our place to put Bo to sleep last Sept. he was 15 years old which was a pretty good age for a dog his size.
Dr U also made a donation to the animal companion fund at the Western College of Veterinary medicine in Bo's memory .
 
MsSage said:
$400 a month for good help for 18 years was a good deal.
If she is in pain take her to the vet. Around here its only $10 and you take her home and give her a nice resting place.

I am sure you were not serious about shooting her. I am sorry your friend is at her end.
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It is not that cheap here .. :???:
We had a private cremation for Steffie and Bo ,each was a little over $400.00 ..
 
Faster horses said:
How could you shoot her? :cry: Shame on you for mentioning that.

Take her to the vet and hold her while they give her the shot. That's
what we do. They just go peacefully. Too bad the good ones don't live longer.............but
I guess that's why we get to have several dogs in our life.

18 is really old for a blue heeler. That's a tesimony to the good
care you have given her all her life. Don't let her down now.

Good luck...I feel for you having to make this decision...it's so
hard to put down a good dog...
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I heard heelers were one of the longest living breeds,dont know how true it is tho ?
js
 
hillsdown said:
MsSage said:
$400 a month for good help for 18 years was a good deal.
If she is in pain take her to the vet. Around here its only $10 and you take her home and give her a nice resting place.

I am sure you were not serious about shooting her. I am sorry your friend is at her end.
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It is not that cheap here .. :???:
We had a private cremation for Steffie and Bo ,each was a little over $400.00 ..
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Thats just for the shot. I ment you take them home and put them in the side yard.
The vet up the road does this so the dogs are not shot and suffer or just left to suffer. This is not a wealthy area and with the feed yards closing and the ranch's cutting back on help.

Haymaker i knew you wouldnt or I should say couldnt do her wrong. your like shoer want everyone to think your gruff and tuff trying to hide a heart of gold towards animals.
 
My foundation bench came from the Army after 6 years as a guard dog. She terrified everyone when I brought her home but in less than a month I had her back into a great pet. www.germanshepherdkingdom.com

I only got 2 litters out of her and then she developed breast cancer. With a shooting range in the back of the Gravel pit I could have shot her but she deserved better.

I have a great Vet who I have worked with for over 40 years and for $50.00 he came to the house - - - I already took a backhoe and had a grave dug. He gave her a shot to put her to sleep and then another to stop her heart and then we laid her in the grave.

I feel if youf dog has been a great companion she deserves no less than that type of treatment from you!
 
I've put down a couple of beloved old dogs and executed one real bad one with a .22 rifle. If I have to make the decision again and I'm sure I will with all the dogs we have, I'll take 'em to the doc and have him "put them to sleep". Wouldn't bother me, though, to "execute" another one if he's as bad as that last one was.
 
hillsdown said:
The cost for just the shot for a medium sized dog is $90.00 here .
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I use to do 90% of the Vet work for Feed Lot - The Vet Supply got to know me - I could get sodium thiopental for sheep-dogs-Goats for around $9 per dose per case.
sodium thiopental now cost is around $19 per Single dose shot

I'm the person everyone calls - Many people and kids remember me as "The Person that Put Their (xyz) Down.

A 22 Pellet is quick and easy - 'pop' and its over
We have 2 Power Company Towers on the ranch - many Pet are planted under their Spread Legs
 

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