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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I could never talk about my precious pets the way you speak of your cat.  [/quote]

This. This is what I find most upsetting on this thread. It's not the conversation about when it's the right time to euthanize, if this is the right time, etc. It's the bone chillingly cold way that OP talks about this creature who has lived with her for 13 years - longer than her husband, longer than her kids.

I don't know if she's maintaining some ironic distance to keep herself from feeling this loss too deeply. Maybe. Maybe she's just a dry person. I don't know. I hope that it's one of these explanations.
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You're right, you don't know OP or her state of mind or her style. Her posts have led me to believe that she's trying hard to make it work and that she is not taking this decision lightly.

You don't mention if you have children - I know I was much, much more attached to my pets before I had kids. Afterwards, of course I still loved the pets and cared for them, but I was able to be somewhat more dispassionate about them because my children changed our family dynamics. And not just in the "who would you save from fire first, the kids or the dog?" way. I needed to hold myself together when the dog got sick BECAUSE my young children needed me. I couldn't fall apart completely, nor could I put my other family responsibilities on hold indefinitely to attend to him 24-7. [/quote]

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