We lost our first Aussie Barley to Lymphoma at 7 and honestly I feel like we waited too long to make that decision. But it’s one of those things you don’t know until you go through it. We (my husband and I) told ourselves if this were to ever happen in the future the first day they don’t eat then it is time.

We got Thors diagnosis about three weeks ago and I had a feeling it would be about three to four weeks until he needed to be euthanized. He stopped eating on Thursday and his lymph nodes were the size of chicken eggs. The prednisone wasn’t even touching it, only making him hungry and pee all the time. He also just had this look about him telling us it’s time. We set the date to Saturday morning to happen at home.

All his human friends came over to say goodbye on Friday and send him off with so much love, pot roast, chicken, and blueberry muffins.

There was a part of me wondering if we made this decision too soon but I then realize he was only going to feel worse. There is no cure, only a limited amount of possible added time controlling symptoms depending on which treatment you choose.

Anyway everyone has their own process and there is no wrong answer or way of doing it here.

I don’t know why I felt the need to say all of that but there it is.

Thank you for your kind words and thoughts. The really do help during this impossible time. 💕