Two PTSs today. I work a few hours a week at a veterinary clinic.

[mopinko]

5. more than 10 if

you count the chickens.

right now i have the best dog i have ever had. he is 5, so we still have a lot of time. looking at getting a pup from the same blood lines just the same.

the hardest one ever was a white boxer that was the nanny when my kids were little. a perfect boxer. i sat on the floor with her and sobbed for over half an hour afterward.
she had a palsy in her face that made it hard for her to swallow correctly. she was getting inhalation pneumonias. we treated it once, but it was back again in a little over a month. having trouble breathing is so frightening, and, of course, i couldnt explain to her what was happening. she was 12.

i really, really hate seeing a dog allowed to get terribly sick and old, and the person just doesnt have the stones to do the right thing. i have stories about what happens to dogs like that sometimes, and it just burns me.