[QUOTE=Brt5470;50172369]My dog is pretty old, maybe 14-15. He's blown both his knees, one had surgery. He's able to still get around. But he's not comfortable. I'm hoping he goes in his sleep honestly. I've had pets which had to be taken to the vet and we simply find out that something went horribly wrong and they didn't make it.[/QUOTE]
That sucks. My dog is old as shit, never walks around, obese, has terrible vision, hearing, and reaction times so she gets around the house by taste, and she's covered in disgusting growths.
But as soon as someone pulls out food, all the life goes back into her body and she's as spry and mobile as any young dog and she starts barking really loud until someone feeds her or she realizes it's me because I don't fall for that shit.
In her old ass age, she's gotten really sick twice and both times we took her to the vet, the vet told us she's really healthy for a geriatric dog and all she needed was some water.
She's the dog version of The End from MGS3.
I wish my dog had it in him to live that long, but he's 13 now and is deaf, senile and has a lot of arthritis. Sometimes he can't even get up. I'm not sure he'll live another year.
[QUOTE=_Axel;50198537]I wish my dog had it in him to live that long, but he's 13 now and is deaf, senile and has a lot of arthritis. Sometimes he can't even get up. I'm not sure he'll live another year.[/QUOTE]
Depends really. My family dog started to get like that around thirteen but lived to be sixteen.
If you're 30, every dog that was alive when you were born is now dead
I wish more pets lived as long as we did. That's pretty cool.
This makes me want to go home and visit my dog now.
I've witnessed my brother's leopard gecko die. That's about as bad as a family pet death as I've dealt with. Saw crickets crawling all over it. Then when I poked it, I knew it was gone. His bearded dragon was also on the way out last I saw it before it was adopted by a pet store. But my 2 great snakeys are still alive and well after about 7-7.5yrs. Both species of snake (corn snake and ball python) can easily live in to their 20s though, along with not picking up cancer and other diseases like dogs and cats commonly do. Some snakes live in to their 40s amazingly.
I know reptiles are a bit different from mammal pets, but they are all I really know. I kinda think they are easier to live with and maintain, with a trade off of much less social interaction. Yes, they do basically do almost nothing, but they don't also cost you $1,000s in vet bills due to this and that.
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