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My girlfriend’s dog is geriatric, mostly blind, deaf, and pretty miserable all the time. I’ve been trying to let her come to terms with the fact that his time has come - now we actually need to put him down.

There was a good post I saw on here but haven’t been able to find it, it had some decent advice on how and when to put a dog down. It was talking about not letting your dog go in a vets office and go out under the cold lights of that environment. We want to give him an honorable death and let him pass in the best way possible. Anyone have any good advice on the subject?

Personally, for my own dog I think I’d want to just give him a bullet to the back of the head and bury him… even though as I contemplate that it brings tears to my eyes. But I figure I owe him that, somewhere in nature and fast, hopefully as pain free as possible.

She’s a little more sensitive which is why I’m looking for alternative ideas. Any help at all is much appreciated.

My girlfriend’s dog is geriatric, mostly blind, deaf, and pretty miserable all the time. I’ve been trying to let her come to terms with the fact that his time has come - now we actually need to put him down. There was a good post I saw on here but haven’t been able to find it, it had some decent advice on how and when to put a dog down. It was talking about not letting your dog go in a vets office and go out under the cold lights of that environment. We want to give him an honorable death and let him pass in the best way possible. Anyone have any good advice on the subject? Personally, for my own dog I think I’d want to just give him a bullet to the back of the head and bury him… even though as I contemplate that it brings tears to my eyes. But I figure I owe him that, somewhere in nature and fast, hopefully as pain free as possible. She’s a little more sensitive which is why I’m looking for alternative ideas. Any help at all is much appreciated.

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I think you need to search yourself on the "miserable" part of the dog's life. Just a check to make sure that you aren't imposing your own views on how the dog sees it. I'm 100% for taking a sick animal that is in pain, and confused, and is actually miserable, and releasing them from that. It's not a natural state for them -- any animal in that position would have been taken by a predator before they got that bad. (It's why I hate the people that keep an old, old sheep or cow alive, when they are arthritic and in constant pain. There was one sheep a woman was keeping alive when it couldn't even stand up, just hobble on its knees unnaturally. A predator would have gotten those prey animals years ago.) Don't put down a dog who's just old and tired. If the dog wants to sleep all day and have a few minutes of petting in the evening before going back to sleep, that's fine. It's doggy retirement. If the dog is ailing and in pain, it's not fair or just to make the dog suffer through that. Aside from that, home euthanasia by a professional if at all feasible. (also, for the sensitive gf, this might be the discussion you need for her to do the right thing if the dog is in pain.)