Whether the end comes unexpectedly, after hospice care at home, or through euthanasia, as the end of our pet’s life approaches we fear…

• That loneliness will overwhelm and paralyze use when our pet is gone.

• That our pet will be afraid.

• That our pet will be in pain and that we won’t be able to help it.

• That our pet will experience a catastrophic event like a stroke or heart attack when we aren’t home to help.

• That we don’t have the right to choose to end our pet’s life – and its pain and struggles — through euthanasia.

• That whatever who choose – a death in its own time or euthanasia – will be the wrong decision.

• That if we choose euthanasia, we are acting too soon – or too late.

• That there are options we didn’t know about for a past pet, and it would have turned out differently has we known about them.–—

If we do the best we can with the information we have, and we do it with love for our cherished pets, we can’t ask more of ourselves.