I’ve had my dog Bandit since I was in kindergarten and he was 3 years old when I got him. Obviously he’s very old now. He has arthritis in his hind legs and catarracts, his face is all gray. We can’t take him out for walks or throwing balls very much because his legs quickly get tired, even though those two things make his whole week. And along with his old age he poops and pees in the house multiple times every single day, to the point where I had to pad our entire empty living room with pee pads so he doesn’t ruin the laminate even more, it’s already all raised from him peeing on it all the time. We let him out and he still pees inside.
My parents are getting divorced so my mom and I are moving out. And namely because of his peeing habit, we can’t take him with us.
I really don’t want to relocate him. When we got him it was heartbreaking how sad and traumatized he was by relocating. Whenever me and my brother would leave for vacation for a week, our parents would tell us that Bandit would cry and walk back and forth between our rooms the whole week. He thought we were never coming back. Now he trusts us and knows we will always come back, even if we drop him off at another person’s house for the week he doesn’t get depressed, just waits for us to come pick him up.
And obviously even if I tried to relocate him nobody would ever want an old dog that pees in the house. AND I want to be with him when he passes. So... obviously, the only option is euthanasia. It just really doesn’t feel right that this is mainly only happening now because we’re moving.
I know his quality of life has diminished. His hind legs shake and give out, he’s not energetic like how he used to be. He struggles to stand. Like I said, when we take him for walks, he seems disappointed that they’re brief even if his legs are shaking like crazy, and the same goes with throwing a ball a couple times. But I can’t help but wonder how much longer we would’ve let him live if my parents weren’t getting a divorce.
Is the divorce a reasonable factor to include in the decision to put down my dog? Am I doing the right thing?
TL;DR: Is it okay if financial circumstances heavily influence your decision to put your dog down?
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