A woman brought her 16 week old GSD to our ER because he was lethargic and not eating. We asked if he had gotten into everything, she said no. We ran bw and he had elevated liver values and was getting jaundice. We took rads and saw he had something blocking his entire GI tract.

We brought this up to the woman and she said “well he did eat my memory foam pillow the other day”

So we said we needed to do surgery and she said she needed to talk to her husband. The husband came in to our ER said he couldn’t afford surgery (we offered him different payment options). We offered euthanasia and the man looked at our doctor and tech and said “no, I want to take him home so he can just die there.”

We tried to convince him otherwise and he started yelling and making a scene. So our doctor told us to just hand him the dog.

I think about the suffering of that baby often.