Our dog Bailey has cancer. He’s thirteen, which is three years past the average lifespan of an English Bulldog. But suddenly, a week later our Vet. is questioning whether it might just be an infection in his digestive system. He thinks we should do a $300 ultrasound to find out. Jacquie asked, what if it’s an infection? We give him an antibiotic. So she asked why we don’t just give him the ($25) antibiotic and see how his condition goes, before doing more expensive tests (we’ve already done plenty) on our really old dog? He’s getting the antibiotic. We’re watching him. Rather upsetting, as at the previous visit it was “this is all we can do” and the plan was that our next visit would eventually be to put him to sleep when he couldn’t eat anymore.
One of our two dogs that passed away a couple years ago had a baaad case of cancer, brain tumor that bulged his eye out and gave him horrible seizures. I can definitely support this cause.
My auntys dog had cancer and wa blind and deaf, they put it down, which was a good thing
Poor cat. Always the odd one out at the dog park.
I saw someone walking their cat last week. Well, not exactly walking. But as close as you’ll ever get with a cat.
As a pastor, there have been a few times when I have been asked to do a funeral for a dog or say a prayer for a sick dog. Not being a dog lover, I found the requests somewhat troublesome. However when I saw the very real grief of the people involved, I had to change my views somewhat.
interesting, so have you done funerals or prayers for dogs? are you a protestant priest or a catholic priest? my mum always says she was put off by christianisism because they said animals had no soul or something.
I have done prayers and blessings for animals. I have never done a funeral. There is a pet cemetery close by that offers that. I have referred people to them for funerals. They have more experience than I and do a better job than I could.
I’m a Lutheran pastor.