What's your favorite pet?

[highwaystar101]

Slimebeast said:

highwaystar101 said:

He was 9 years old. It was the weirdest day ever. He seemed fairly happy and healthy when we were having breakfast in the morning, but by lunchtime we were up the vets where he died. He had a tumor along his stomach lining that went undetected. Things decided to give in on that day, and it caused a lot of damage to him in a very short time.

Oh, how sad. But how can he have died the same day? Did they put him to sleep?

Was he sick before, or did you see the first symtoms on that day, and what were they?

Yes, we put him to sleep. I remember him looking very ill, like if we had of left him he would have died soon anyway.

As for symptoms, we knew he had lost his appetite and we took him to the vets the week before, but they told us it was something else and just gave him pills, we didn't know that he had a serious problem until that day. I'm not sure of the intricate details of what happened, I'm not a vet and the vet didn't really go into much detail outside of "we've found a tumour, it's come about quite suddenly, it's pretty serious and it will be fatal".

We knew he wouldn't recover and that the time he had left would have been a real struggle, so we decided to say our goodbyes and put him to sleep as it was the humane thing to do.