i have a labrador who is 12 years old. he has had hip dysplasia his entire life and the vet's told me he wouldn't live past 5. here we are 7 years later, he has had his up's and downs but we always got him regular vet checkups and injections to make sure there were more up's then downs. anyway with the end of my pregnancy/birth of my baby happening i somehow missed 3 months of vet checkups (bad pet owner i know, don't yell at me) anyway i had the vet make a house call this morning because i noticed that he was walking with his front feet but lifting his two back ones together rather than stepping. turns out he has an EXTREMELY aggressive form of bone cancer and in the past 3 months it has almost completely eaten the bone out of one of his legs and left a painful cancerous lump. he is on morphine right now and the vet is coming back to put him to sleep next thursday. i wouldn't let her do it today cause the kids were home and didn't even know he was sick...
my question is, how do i tell the kids? Felix is nearly 4 and loves Lucky, it is going to hit him so hard but i don't want to blindside him, i feel like he deserves some warning. has anyone else been in a similar situation?
my question is, how do i tell the kids? Felix is nearly 4 and loves Lucky, it is going to hit him so hard but i don't want to blindside him, i feel like he deserves some warning. has anyone else been in a similar situation?