Croton Animal Hospital offers invaluable personal advice when you feel the time may be approaching. Consider these questions carefully when faced with the overwhelming decision of euthanasia.
• Is your pet in incurable chronic pain, or does he have an age-related illness that cannot be alleviated and which now causes misery, e.g. advanced senility or incontinence?
• Has he suffered severe pain from injuries from which he will never recover?
• Is treatment of a debilitating condition no longer possible?
• Is he in visible distress from a terminal illness that has now reduced his quality of life to such a point that he is no longer happy?
• Does he have a dangerous behavioral problem that cannot be corrected and that indicates he cannot be re-homed?
• Does he no longer enjoy his usual activities?
• Does he appear to be in much pain?
• Do I have the financial and physical resources it may take to adequately care for him as his condition declines?
• Will the quality of life through the treatment and beyond be good enough for the time it affords?
• Am I prolonging life for my pet’s sake – or for mine?
