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Anonymous
Happened to my dog, too. It was as if he woke up one morning in too much pain to do more than lie about- just the week before, he was running and playing.
He lingered for nearly three weeks. At first he'd eat chicken and rice and it seemed that his condition improved, but then he started to refuse even that.
I tried to take him on a final walk before taking him to the vet to be put down (I'd been there the day he exhibited symptoms- I couldn't afford tests or even an xray), but he was too weak. He tried to leap out of the bed of the truck when we got to the vet's before I could let down the tailgate, but he tripped and clonked his head on the pavement. The fall didn't hurt him too much, he recovered and was able walk into the vet's office.
He died in my arms.
Now I feel that it isn't right to keep an animal you can't afford to keep in health care and regular checkups. Which is very sad, because the logical conclusion of this line of thought is that most people in America shouldn't have pets; pet ownership is a luxury to be enjoyed by either wealthy people with families or middle class single people.
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