The love is worth the sadness.
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Answering these questions may help as you walk your pet through this last stage.
Sometimes, quality of life flow charts and pain charts and exact laboratory test results can be your rock at the last stage of your pet’s life. More often than not, life, as you know, is not so black and white.
The most difficult time for a pet lover…the most difficult time for a veterinarian…is the last stage of life – the good-bye, and more times than not, euthanasia.
I have always enjoyed toxicology.
My friend lost her brother.
If you don’t accept pets/cats/dogs/big dogs/bully breeds, keep a list of places that do.
I don’t mind that veterinarians are paid on the low end for the medical world.
Before I got into vet school, I remember thinking, “I have no marketable skills. I guess I’m a pretty fast typist.” I had no plan B.
As much as I love cats, I love YOU Cindy and Tae and Jeff and Lu and all of the rest of you Cat Families just as much.
Shrill, agonal screams echoed through the tiny exam room.
Anesthesia is the most important thing we do as a veterinary team.
I need to breathe. I need to have cats in my life almost as much.
"She gets this far off look, as if the angels are calling her name."
I'm gonna go talk with my wife, cry, rob a bank and get back to you.
I probably love a breed because of you.
Don't say "one more beer" to the vet!
At 2 am the soreness in my hand wakes me up, and I remember. Nine hours earlier, I failed to revive a dog with emergency treatment.
Morris Animal Foundation and Orvis teamed up and created this infographic on canine bone cancer.
When I am tempted to give up on humanity, this is one of the people I remember instead.