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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You'll have the dog until it's an inconvenience.  Don't .[/quote]

+1  What if the dog has accidents in the house?  [/quote]
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A puppy is almost guaranteed to have accidents. An older dog may become incontinent, unable to climb stairs, etc while otherwise remaining in decent health. Then what?[/quote]

Then you euthanize when it becomes too difficult to help them.

Look, I am an animal lover, too. I have carried elderly dogs outside every few hours so they can go to the bathroom. I have done months of SC fluids for a cat who had kidney disease. But at some point, it's not sustainable anymore, and it's kinder to euthanize the pet. They don't fear death, and keeping them alive when they can't move around or have to soil themselves is actually incredibly selfish.[/quote]

No doubt about it in those issues.  But it sounds like her cat only was a little stressed (understandably, given the sound of their household) and/or couldn't make it over some low threshold to the box?  Would you say time to euthanize?  13 is not old for a cat with no other health problems, as OP has said she/he has gotten clean bill of health from vet. [/quote]

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