Hey everyone it's a sad week for us and I need advice on helping our Rotti though the last leg of his journey. I'll start with a brief background on Ares.
My fiance volunteered at a local shelter during the entirety of her highschool career and loved every minute of it. There she met a 3 year old Rottweiler who was surrendered from a terrible situation. They bonded immediately but because of his aggression her parents were uncomfortable with her bringing him home. He had an all too common life of a stud dog. He was chained up 24/7 and had to fight for food, was routinely beaten and completely socially neglected. Luckily it was a non kill shelter but that meant Ares was going to be a lifer. A few years went by and a few unsuccessful attempts to find him a forever home my fiance went back to visit the shelter and sure as shit he was still there. So with little effort she convinced me that Ares was coming home. After a few visits to make sure he wasn't going to be aggressive with me we took him in. He was 6 at the time and although we knew Rottweilers don't have a particularly long lifespan we felt it was right to give him something he was probably yearning for his whole life. A forever home. We have done a lot of temperament training with him and even got to the point of being able to pet him while he eats. When I met him you wouldn't be able to be in the same room with Ares or he'd rip your head off.
Ares is 10 now and his hard life has caught up to him. Although a very stoic boy we can tell he's in pain. He's also started to regress into the state of aggression from whence he came. It's getting to be winter here in Midwestern Ontario, Canada and we both feel it to be cruel to force him to endure another Canadian winter. At the end of winter last year letting him out to do his business sometimes resulted in having to carry him in.
Now getting to the dilemma. We haven't been able to find a vet in our area that will let us bring him in or come out to send him off to his final journey. They're all too cautious about his behaviour (which I completely understand, he's a 120lb aggravated animal with a good set of chompers). I don't want him to pass naturally. Its a terrible and traumatic way to die. I want him to pass comfortably surrounded by the only two people who love him. I suppose we either need to find a way to administer a sedative so the vet coming out doesn't get mauled or if worse comes to worse is there a way that I, myself can put him to sleep humanely?
Please help.
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