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Photo credit: Hannah Stonehouse Hudson/StonehousePhoto.com.
From a September 25, 2012 HuffPostUK story on Schoep and John:
Without the funds to pay for his dog’s medication and vet bills and unable to witness the pain his faithful companion was going through, John had planned to say farewell to Schoep in the fortnight after the August picture was taken.
Schoep’s vet Erik Haukaas, at the Bay Area Animal Hospital, confirmed this, telling TwinCities.com: “In July, euthanisation was an option we talked about.
“It doesn’t always. It is just one more thing we try instead of putting a dog to sleep. In this case, it all worked out tremendously.”
You can follow the continuing story of Schoep and John at their website and their Facebook page. Woof!
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That photo brings tears to my eyes.
I know what the dog went through. Our shepherd had bad hip problems in her later years, but we refused to put Valentine down, but cared as best we could. We even prepared a kiddie wagon with a soft bed so she could go out and see the world, her all time favorite thing to do.
She died peacefully, at home at age 14.
Did I tell the group about a wonderful inexpensive vet in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico?
His office is about 25 miles south of Yuma and a mile across the border.
He did surgery on my 13 yr old English Setter, Silky and removed several tumors from her. He saved her life! His office was spotless and he spoke perfect English too. He even sent an ambulance to the border to pick us up and take us back.
His name is Dr. Sergio Moreno. His website is http://www.hospitaldemascotas.com
his phone is 928-482-7103.
I need to take her back to him because she is getting 2 more swelling areas on her mammary glands again.
Any good Samaritans care enough to help us? I’m just less than 90 days away from getting my Social Security. I just don’t have the ability to take her now. I pray it doesn’t get too bad before April.
The love of a dog is boundless. I have had to put down two of my 13 year old kuvasok over the past 6 months, but each of them having arthritis were comforted over the past couple of years by giving them MILOXICAM, GLUCOSAMINE, and powdered shark cartledge (powder, in a capsule, not pressed pill).
had I NOT given them their daily regiment I would have been forced to put them down 18-24 months earlier.
btw, here in Michigan there is a pet hospise program available from the Michigan State University Vet School. A vet from the school will visit your home to talk to you and examine your pet and you can talk about the expectations you have for your pet going forward and you can begin to make a decision on your pet’s health/demise. Then when you decide, the vet will come to your home and euthanise your pet in your home. They will collect your beloved pet for burial or cremation.
As hard as it is to put down a loved pet there is little worse than having to take the dying animal to the vet to be put down. The hospise program
lightens the pain.
PW thank you for the update and happy story.
Beautiful picture. We become so attached to our pets. My old beagle-daschund also has arthritis. It is heart rending to us as we watch her near the end of her time. She is not in the pain that this dog was apparently in, at least not yet.
Dogs are wonderful. I have joyed in their love all my life. And I know this is a bit of thread drift but I think it is a PW story also. (It seems in the scheme of things that it is cats that have more often chosen my house to live in.) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/garden/300-cats-and-counting.html?pagewanted=1
House adoption here:
Dogs, 1
Cats,3.5. One cat had dual citizenship.
LOL
That doggy is trying to pull that guy under the water! And what if those scary little fluffy white doggies jump in and help! Look out, dude!
Wait: Have I misinterpreted the photo?
Morning PW & Pupses.
Hoofed a three-mile hump this morning, half of it up a pretty steep grade. Bonus: There’s an odd spell of relatively low (30′s) temperatures biting at SoCal right now – which pretty much disproves that whole “global warming” hoax. Well doesn’t it? (Those scientist people are just milking the system for additional financial resources to support their extravagant, jet-setting lifestyles, with the expensive wine and caviar and trips, willy-nilly, to all manner of exotic locales. And that’s just for lunch.)
Wait: Am I misinformed again?
Ha! And good morning to you, too!
Late to see this,but yes, what appeared to be a one-time heart-warming, but sad, photo and story has turned out to be an ongoing tale of dog-hooman love and care.
I get the updates on my FB page, and love seeing them.
But that photo,with Schoep smiling so lovingly, is still one in a million.
This is such a heartwarming story! If you haven’t yet, click through the different links for more of the story.
For those of us without human kids, our pets more than fill that role. It’s so hard when they get to that point because you never want to say goodbye. My beautiful Buddy cat passed after a very short battle with thyroid disease in August 2008, and his sister, Sissy, was diagnosed with it a few months later. Thankfully she is still with me and her new vet even commented on how good she looks at 16. Were it not for a stranger in Tacoma, WA, “adopting” us in 2010 when my unemployment exhausted, I’m not sure we would be here now. I am forever grateful to her and the others who have helped us over the last few years.
Why’d ya’ have to go and make me cry?