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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 518307" data-attributes="member: 7394">If its just age and not severe pain, I suggest keeping him around for as long as possible. You never know, he might make it another 5 years. Then again, he might make it another 5 days. You just don't know and it isn't right for us mere mortals to determine the fate of our animal friends.A year ago I lost 4 pets within 3 months. My chocolate lab, whome I'd had for 8 years, developed a limp. We took her in, found out she had hip displasia and was in an incredible amount of pain. It killed us to do it, but in that case we decided to euthanize because she would never be able to enjoy life the way she always had. She had been my first dog, and I wasn't at all prepared to see her die.Then a month later 3 of our cats, which we'd had for 10 years got sick. They were vaccinated, but the tests they ran only showed that they didn't have anything that they normally vaccinate against. They were fine one day and the next they stopped eating, dropped a ridiculous amount of weight, and then they died. We kept them indoors just so that the stuff outside couldn't get to them. Then one stray cat started hanging around our house and that was all it took. One of the cats we had then is still alive and doing well, but I miss the ones that are gone. I wish there was more I could have done to protect them.Pets can be your best friends and you have to do the best you can for them. If your cat is hanging on and not having serious health issues, I recommend keeping it alive as long as possible. I only wish I could have more time with the ones that I lost.</blockquote>

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