Animal lovers (28 replies)

Now we’ve not got a pet, never had one apart from a Jack Russell when I was knee high to a Jack Russell that died before I formed memories of grief and shit.
But me and the missus have just took my Moms 12 year old great ball of love Staffie to the vets to be told (unsurprisingly) it has what looks like cancer of the lymph nodes and they phoned my Mom and advised that putting the dog to sleep was best. I really feel for my Mom and missus who loved the yapper to bits, but what got me in floods was when I asked if one of us could be there with the dog, when time was called, they said because of covid restrictions we couldn’t. We were given the dogs lead back and returned home.
I know there’s nothing that can be done about it, and rules are sensible, but I feel dirty leaving the poor thing on its own.
My mother has only just got over covid and this will knock her sideways.
No sympathy wanted here, but at 45 it’s my first experience of losing an animal. I’ll feel more sympathy to all of you who go through or have gone through it previously. I’m glad me and the missus are off work this week tbh