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In reply to the discussion: Pets are 'scared' and look around for their owners in dying moments. [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... when I lived with them long ago, and the vet asked us to leave before giving them the injections. I wish that I would've stuck with them to the end. Both of them looked at me with "dog smiles" when I left, after I cried and said goodbye to them.
What was so interesting to me was that they both seemed to know that their suffering was about to end. My impression was that they were very relieved to be there, like they were thinking, "Thank God, I'm about to die!" Yet both dogs never really liked the vet's office during previous visits.
Edit: I just want to clarify that the two dogs were put to sleep at different periods of my childhood. It wasn't like we took the two dogs to a "two for the price of one lethal injection sale" at the vet's office or something.