RE: Staring into the Void
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Thanks. I think it would be so much easier if they could talk to you. Her mind seemed fine, but we could tell her body was failing and there was no telling how much pain she was in. We knew we were just being selfish possibly making her suffer for so long. But then you question yourself. Maybe she would have been fine for another year... Ugh. It's hard too because we have never been in this house without her. It seems so much bigger and empty now. This morning was really hard not going through the usual routine of giving her her pills and feeding her before we headed off to work.
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I know, this is what we struggled with too. After we replayed it over and over about a thousand times in our heads we realized that it was the right thing to do. I've seen people who hang onto them longer than they should and it's so unfair to the animal because nature wouldn't allow for them to linger if they weren't domesticated. The void afterwards is the excruciating part. We got Amstel about a month after our first beagle passed and that really helped but, unfortunately, we couldn't do that this time. Originally our plan was to travel but then my wife got sick (I haven't shared anything about this online). Now we're in and out of the hospital and doctors' appointments so much it would be impossible to have a dog now. Hang in there. It's helped us to talk about our memories of Amstel. We still talk about him almost every day. When it's nice my wife and I go to the park and feed the squirrels, any contact with nature helps.