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In reply to the discussion: Pets are 'scared' and look around for their owners in dying moments. [View all]qazplm135
(7,447 posts)I was heart broken when I had to put my cat down. In the moment, I couldn't be in the room when it happened. In hindsight wish I was but in the moment it was too much.
When they put them to sleep they knock them out first. My cat was "dying" but she wasn't in the throes of death. She probably could have made it another day or two or slightly longer but I didn't want to put her through that as she was in distress from the lack of ability to breathe thanks to the combination of heart cancer and heart disease filling her with fluid.
She wouldn't have known that this injection of anesthesia was any different than the one she'd gotten the week before, or the week before that.
Maybe an animal that is literally moments from death, but not an animal that isn't quite there yet.