Your post of yesterday was an excellent statement of the end we choose, not the ugly end we face. I have lost close to dozen over the years and it is never easy. I did let one go to the very end while the animal was visibly in suffer mode, will never do that again. That was a very bad decision on my part. The 'known' end is a most difficult decision. No question about it, and rips your heart to shreds every time. I watched my mother in law die an extremely slow painful death. There were many times I wanted to just put a pillow over her face to end the insane trauma pain she was in, but we cannot do that for a human. Yet for a loved fur friend we can give them the gift of a dignified ending to suffering, pain and total loss of quality in life. One has to follow their heart and the best path is one of removing a condition that cannot be made any better in the least but to give that gift of the end with dignity and love. I have done it several times, is incredibly hard but when all is over I actually felt better to have helped a beloved friend end the pain, the suffering. Gordon, Peekaboo and Pester Rev. J Gordon Bengtson Aarrow-Ranch Aviation Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111 [Posted in FML 6203]