my lovely ugly dog
My lovely dog, one so strange that only our family would end up with, was put to sleep this morning. Last night my sister and her husband came home and Mindy was pacing and barely able to breathe. Maria said she looked scared and like she needed help. It's hard to understand, but being the owner of a pet for so long, you can tell when your animal is just acting really out of character, or its emotion. A few weeks ago she was diagnosed with what was thought to be cancer. These past few years, her health has gotten progressively worse. Dementia, stopped barking all together, hearing loss, loss of vision, and just getting sick a lot. It wasn't fair to her to go on getting as bas as she had been, so my family decided on the humane decision of peacefully putting her to sleep. This was really my first real "pet", and the first real loss of a pet that I've really had. We were in the room when she was put to sleep, and in the matter of seconds, that was probably the most peaceful she has been in a long while.
At least she won't have to suffer any longer, and I'm gonna miss her.