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[quote=Anonymous]We gave our Lab with bad hips glucosamine pills and seaweed tablets for years. It did seem to help.

This Lab lived to be 12. He started to fail a little right before I had my 2nd child...deaf, stiff-legged when he walked. I was (thank G-d) home on maternity leave with 3-week-old son when he became disoriented one weekend and stopped eating and had trouble moving around. I think he probably had a stroke. The next day, he was worse. My husband (who got him as a puppy) was on his way home from a work trip and we made an appointment to take dog to the vet to be put down at 4pm. Two hours before the appointment, he got in his dog bed and his breathing got very ragged and wheezy. I lay down on the floor and hugged and patted him and he died within an hour. I'm not sure he knew I was there - he was laboring to breathe and not really conscious. Unfortunately my husband didn't make it in time to say goodbye. When DH got home, we took his body to the vet to be cremated...that was probably the worst part for me, trying to move him after he was dead. Luckily my 2yo was at school.

Our second dog (large poodle) got cancer at age 8 and stopped eating. He got very thin and treatments we tried did not work. Finally one day he looked at us sadly like he just couldn't do it anymore, and we knew it was time and took him in to be put down. This was not long after our first dog died, so kids were still very small and we told them after the fact.

Dying of natural causes or of euthanasia are both heartbreaking. OP, just enjoy the time you have with your buddy...don't worry too much about coming home to find him dead. While some dogs do die unexpectedly, most of the dogs DH and I had growing up showed signs of severe decline/illness and had to be put down. They sometimes seem to know when it's time. When they can't eat or drink or walk, or don't respond to you, or they're just not themselves anymore, it is time.[/quote]

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