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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)most of them die alone.
I know that many people die on the operating table, they die in accidents, they die suddenly, they die while the family takes a moment to catch a couple hours of sleep.
It's a well known phenomenon that often the dying will wait until they are alone to die.
That's not an always thing of course, some folks die with loved ones around them.
No one said anything about considering "a pet a thing." I certainly didn't.
I spent 8K bucks trying to save my pet. I cried as a grown man for about three weeks off and on or the whole time I was trying to save her. It was harder than anything I've ever had to do.
But that doesn't mean that my pet was let down or I somehow loved her less because I couldn't be in there when they injected her to put her to sleep, nor does it mean she knew what was going on or that she was dying in that moment.