My pet was put to sleep yesterday, how do I cope?

, it was very sudden and even now I can’t process the fact his not here anymore. He was playful and acting just the day before with no signs anything was wrong with him.

The next day he was aware but he didn’t want to move or eat.

I still remember him still wagging his tail as he greeted me but still not getting up from the floor. He didn’t look in any pain when my Mum had to pick him up to take him to the car only this curious and confused look on his face like oh, where are we going now?

That was the last time I saw him aware of his surroundings though. The vet told us that he had internal bleeding and they had found a large mass and he was going downhill more rapidly. He was too old to survive an operation with a heart condition as well.

So we had no choice but to put him down. We were able to say goodbye to him but he didn’t seem to be aware of his surroundings or us though he didn’t seem to be in any pain just panting heavily.

Due to covid only two of us were aloud to be there when he was put to sleep. My sister and my mum were with him for his last moments, he died in my sisters arms. I only can hope that he could smell us and he knew that we with him and that he knew my mum and my sister were with him until the end.

It’s so hard to process that’s his gone, to think that he was perfectly fine the day before that.

It does give me some comfort to know that he liked the vets, he used to hate it when he was a little puppy but grew to love it when he got older and he loved saying hello to the receptionist.

My parents at the time didn’t realise how sick he truly was so they wouldn’t have been that stressed handing him over to the vets so that gives me some comfort to know he wouldn’t have felt their stress when he was aware of his surroundings. They even told me that he wagged his tail when he saw the vets, like how he greets us.

Yet I can’t stop myself from thinking if we had found the mass earlier could he have been saved or was there truly no signs? He did feel nauseous now and again but that was it.

How do you cope with a pets death especially if they were fine the day before and you didn’t see it coming?

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