Today, while house sitting for my mother and stepfather, their elderly dog passed away. They live in such a remote location, the closest open vet office is a 2 hour drive, and the local one opens in 10 hours. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was babysitting, and the family dog was unable to move, so I had texted the mother about it. We put the small dog on the couch to make it comfortable while the mother was on her way to get the dog and take it to the vet. Turns out, we sat with a dead dog for about ten minutes. FML
Today, I received a card in the mail. It was from my vet's office. Written inside was "We send our sympathy during this trying time." I haven't been home in three days. I can't find my dog and my mother won't talk about it. My dog was 7. She hated that dog. FML
Today, I decided to adopt a 11 year-old dog that had been in need of a home for several months. Two hours after I got him home, I discovered him dead in the backyard. FML
Today, I was supposed to bury my childhood dog at my mother's friend's place. I had to wake up at 5 a.m., spent two hours on the bus to be there in time, only for him to tell me that he'd actually buried my dog yesterday. FML
Today, while I was pet-sitting for my boyfriend's parents, one of their dogs killed one of their kittens. FML
Today, my demented mother-in-law had my dog euthanized while I was on vacation, because he was, "too feral and disorderly." Why? Because he, "peed on the grass." I had that dog for 9 years. Why couldn’t my husband put her in a nursing home instead? FML
Today, I called my mother to check up on her. Lately, she's been having some financial problems, so last week I sent her my last $100 to help her out until her next paycheck. She used the money to euthanize the family dog. FML
Today, while out of town, I got a hysterical phone call from my teenage nephew who was pet-sitting at my house. My geriatric dog, who seemed fine when we left, had died during the night. Now my family is mourning the dog and my nephew is traumatized. FML
Today, the same manager who wrote me up for missing work when my mom had had a stroke, thought it was perfectly acceptable to announce she was leaving work 6 hours early to take her dogs to the groomers. Apparently, that appointment was more urgent than me riding in an ambulance with my mother. FML
Today, I begrudgingly helped relocate my 84-year-old mother-in-law to our home at my partner's adamant request. It took months of stressful preparation, around $10,000 in costs, and some 500 km travelled via medical transport. Ten minutes after arriving, she had a heart attack and died. FML
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Sinshine 28
Why do you need a vet for a dead dog?
JulietMarie 30
If the dogs already dead there’s no point in bringing it to a vet.
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Comments (25)
jbuckets_404 39
Before taking dead Fido to the vet or burying him, I'd ask your folks first on what they'd prefer.
sherbear86 21
Put the dog in the freezer until you can get it to the vet if you’re looking for cremation. The vets are going to freeze him/her regardless until it’s their time for cremation. It’s hard but the best thing.
MamaChey 24
Putting Fido in the freezer is a HORRIBLE IDEA! I would have a huge problem with my kids putting my dead dog (cat, gerbil, goldfish) in my freezer. I put food in there!!!
Razell 13
You wrap the body in a couple layers of plastic bags first....
doggone 3
The original poster here. The reasoning for needing a vet after the dog died was for storage. Parents were on a cruise, so I couldn't really just call them up and ask if they were alright with having me dig a hole in mom's garden for the corpse, and they didn't have a saint bernard sized freezer. Wound up having to wait it out for the local vet office to open because of the weather condition at the time.
CoriCat 25
Why are you taking it to the vet..? Call them and ask what they’d like you to do. Freeze it, bury it, cremate it. There are many options. None of which are the vet..