So sorry for your loss. BUT... As much as we love our dogs, we must be allow ourselves to let them go when it's time. Your dog's time was two months ago. All that money could have helped rescues and saved many dog lives. Instead, your dog suffered 2 months longer than he should have. No, you don't deserve a dead dog. But your dog didn't deserve to die a horrible death from chemo either.

too bad my frend sorry for the loss

I'm so sorry about your dog. Having had two dogs die, I know how much it hurts.

See, this is why the human race disgusts me. 15k on a dog is ridiculous. If it's suffering that much, you should have just put it down. In reality, you merely made it suffer more, so YDI for sure. And, to all of you disgusting people saying "oh well if you'd spend 15k on a person and not a dog, then you're totally stupid" : Pets > People That may have sounded harsh, but to you idiots you need to be harsh. If I had to choose whether to spend 15k on my dying dog, or on my dying child, guess which one I'd spend it on. In case you're incredibly daft and can't answer it, I'd spend it on my dying child. You guys all remind me of Paris Hilton (and boy does it kill me to use that reference). Yes, pets are important, but seriously what the ****. They are a part of the family, but your actual HUMAN family is more important. Would you allow your dog to sit at the dining table and eat dinner with you? How about go to school with your kids? Oh, I forgot, they CAN'T. Pets needs should be met, yes, but 15k should not be spent on them. How about putting that away, oh I don't know, for the family that will be around longer, and will be more beneficial for? Idiots. OP: You really shouldn't have put your dog through all of that suffering, so I'm going to have to say YDI. However, as a pet owner myself, I know how much it sucks to lose one. So I'm sorry for your loss, but that's about it.

I like how everyone is assuming the OP couldn't afford to easily pay this money behind his dog. Where in the OP did he say "I denied myself food or my family health care to see after my dog"?? He could very well be filthy rich and yes, rich people DO worry about money too. After all you don't get rich by throwing money away. And no, the money was not spent badly, it's the OP's money, not yours and he may spend it however he pleases :) I love how the internet gives people so many extra pairs of balls to jump and judge every single thing they see.

bury it in the yard and get a new one

That really sucks, losing a pet is really hard, I know, I've lost one before. But this is kind of a lesson in not playing God. As well as putting your dog through treatments that can't be pleasant for him at all, and if he had kidney failure -and- cancer, chances are he wasn't going to last long anyways. I'm sorry for your loss, but death happens, we have to deal with it and move on. I'm also sorry for the money you wasted to try to get your dog healthy again.

#183 your the reason why im disgusted at the human race dont you have anything better to do than type huge ass responses to fmls all day?

OP, ignore 183, he's an insensitive prick. Anyway, sorry about your dog mate, RIP. In response to all the YDI, guys, it's HIS hard earned money, he can spend it on what he likes. You make so many decisions about what this guys life is, its possible he doesn't have kids to spend the money on, or maybe he's got enough money that he can spend 15k on the dog. Either way, you can't say that he deserves it because he chose to spend his money in that way... to some people, yeah, 15k on a dog would be stupid. But to others, it isn't. The one problem with this site is that there are people who will say YDI to anything because when you think about anything a certain way, you can pin it on someone. These people really show that they have issues much deeper than simply being dicks. I won't say 183 is one, as he actually has some logic behind his response, but it doesn't mean it holds true to you or your situation. In any case, fyl man.

For all of you who say I was nuts to spend the money on the cancer treatment (which was a successful surgery to remove a tumour) this was the 4th time I spent more than $10,000 on the dog for a total during his life of somewhere between $50,000-$60,000. To the commenter who suggested that $15,000 could be used to retire someone's medical debt, it doesn't exist here in Canada (and most of the industrialized world). Medical debt is mostly a product of America's barbaric and antiquated healthcare system. Yes the surgery was hard on my dog but, it was successful and he was recovering. In the days before his eventual passing he was jogging with me again. When I decided on the surgery my options were to put my dog down then or try the surgery and if it was successful give him a few more years of health and happiness. If at any point I thought he was suffering beyond reason I would have put him down and when it became apparent that he was suffering and there was no hope of recovery I did have him put down. But if you gave me the same options again, a choice between putting him down or several more years of good health and happiness after a little suffering, I'll take the surgery every time. Had I known his kidneys were going to fail I obviously would have skipped the surgery since all it did really was cause him unnecessary suffering. I loved my dog and spent as much time with him as I could. I know some of you think I'm crazy for doing what I did since he was only a dog. Frankly I think you're all conceited and narrow and I pity you. I could not live with myself if someone asked me if I did everything I could for my dog and I couldn't answer yes.