Took Kip to the Vets tonight and am now coming to terms with the fact that we are on Kipper's last days. The Vet was a lovely young woman and over the next week or so - I will arrange for her to come round to the house one afternoon and to put our lovely old Kipper to sleep.
Have talked to all my wonderful sons tonight and am moving towards a date - probably next week.
Lots of emotion involved with this - know we can't keep him - and am very unwilling to let him keep going beyond the point he lives in pain or as the vet described it - he collapses somewhere like the park and it all gets horrible and traumatic. So the best thing is - we get the Vet around one afternoon, probably next week, and she enables him to die in the safety and security of his home. Know it's the right thing to do but still feel very emotional about it.
Kipper has been a lovely dog and the fact that he was there with Chris in his last conscious minutes adds a depth of emotion to this. But I want him to go with dignity and without fear.
But I will miss my lovely old Kipper................................
