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I could really use some guidance from those who have had similar experiences.
My cat has been ill off and on for over a year now. She’s been vomiting, had diarrhea, skin rashes and has recently stopped eating. Lately she has started to howl/cry in pain. It’s breaking my heart to see her like this. You can tell she’s just not herself anymore. Though I’ve taken her to the vet a dozen times over the last year, they typically will send me home with medications and that’s that. Though the medications help, it’s only a temporary fix and I end up bringing her in a couple weeks later for the same issue. After everything I’ve been reading and her condition, it seems like a more serious disease is the issue. The vet is just now offering to do expensive x-rays and ultrasounds to look further into the issue, that may only diagnose the problem and be recommended surgery or prescription food that may not even help.
I personally think with animals it’s better to have a quality life than quantity. She’s a rescue and may be about only 10 years old which is still young to me. I know the vets job is to diagnose and treat the issue, but I financially and emotionally cannot keep going further. When even mentioning euthanizing, my vet immediately changed the subject.
I’m struggling to know what the right thing to do is. I just don’t want to see her in pain any longer and don’t want the rest of her days to be taking her to the scary vet, forcing her to take medications and have her improve some but never really feel great again.
My cat is clearly been sick for a long time and the illness is only progressing, how do I tell my vet I want to euthanize? I feel as if I’m being judged because I don’t want to put her through another year of pain to figure out the issue l, along with putting me with thousands of dollars in debt, for the vet to merely figure out the issue that can be ‘managed’.
thanks for listening,
KC
My cat has been ill off and on for over a year now. She’s been vomiting, had diarrhea, skin rashes and has recently stopped eating. Lately she has started to howl/cry in pain. It’s breaking my heart to see her like this. You can tell she’s just not herself anymore. Though I’ve taken her to the vet a dozen times over the last year, they typically will send me home with medications and that’s that. Though the medications help, it’s only a temporary fix and I end up bringing her in a couple weeks later for the same issue. After everything I’ve been reading and her condition, it seems like a more serious disease is the issue. The vet is just now offering to do expensive x-rays and ultrasounds to look further into the issue, that may only diagnose the problem and be recommended surgery or prescription food that may not even help.
I personally think with animals it’s better to have a quality life than quantity. She’s a rescue and may be about only 10 years old which is still young to me. I know the vets job is to diagnose and treat the issue, but I financially and emotionally cannot keep going further. When even mentioning euthanizing, my vet immediately changed the subject.
I’m struggling to know what the right thing to do is. I just don’t want to see her in pain any longer and don’t want the rest of her days to be taking her to the scary vet, forcing her to take medications and have her improve some but never really feel great again.
My cat is clearly been sick for a long time and the illness is only progressing, how do I tell my vet I want to euthanize? I feel as if I’m being judged because I don’t want to put her through another year of pain to figure out the issue l, along with putting me with thousands of dollars in debt, for the vet to merely figure out the issue that can be ‘managed’.
thanks for listening,
KC