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deaconson said:
A few years ago I worked stretch of 7 weeks. 49 days (5 days off) . ~85 hour weeks (work/commute).

That broke me seeing how negatively it affected our young kids.
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When I was getting ready for a big trial I worked 47 consecutive days including Easter Sunday.

There was a 3 week gap between weeks one and two of trial. Because of scheduling issues I had to miss a family vacation so out of 37 days between when the trial first started and when it ended I didn’t see my kids for 23 of them.

That’s never happening again. And on that note, I’m off to hit some golf balls while our cleaning company vacuums.
 
Wife just called and sounds like my parents' dog is about to kick the bucket which we 100 percent knew was gonna happen on our watch. He's on his way to the vet right now. Just have to decide if we tell my parents about it now or wait until they get back from vacation.
 
mako1331 said:
Wife just called and sounds like my parents' dog is about to kick the buck which we 100 percent knew was gonna happen on our watch. He's on his way to the vet right now. Just have to decide if we tell my parents about it now or wait until they get back from vacation.
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Tough call of when to tell your parents you straight up murdered their dog while they trusted you.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
Where did you pivot to for your extra days? Back to Charlotte to hangout by the river?
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Staying in Cairo. We now have a day trip to Alexandria; a trip out into the desert to ride camels and sand surf and plot war on the US; and a day to tour the new Grand Egyptian Museum (before it opens!).
 
mako1331 said:
Wife just called and sounds like my parents' dog is about to kick the bucket which we 100 percent knew was gonna happen on our watch. He's on his way to the vet right now. Just have to decide if we tell my parents about it now or wait until they get back from vacation.
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Were they aware of this possibility while on vacation, despite knowing he should of been put down a year ago?
 
deacfan78 said:
Were they aware of this possibility while on vacation, despite knowing he should of been put down a year ago?
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If they thought she should have been put down a year ago, I doubt there would be a dog to be in @mako1331's care to begin with. I think captain no shirt is doing some editorializing here.

#realtalk that sucks. Losing pets is never pleasant. It's really hard for folks to make those decisions. I ran an animal welfare org for two years, and if I learned nothing else from that experience, I certainly learned that there are many fates much worse than euthanasia for pets.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
If they thought she should have been put down a year ago, I doubt there would be a dog to be in @mako1331's care to begin with. I think captain no shirt is doing some editorializing here.

#realtalk that sucks. Losing pets is never pleasant. It's really hard for folks to make those decisions. I ran an animal welfare org for two years, and if I learned nothing else from that experience, I certainly learned that there are many fates much worse than euthanasia for pets.
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Definitely! We're on doggo 4 right now. Had 3 at once (won't do that again) and doggo 3 was still kicking when we rescued doggo 4. Wife was out of town for work and I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of someone being murdered in cold blood. Don't know how the kids didn't wake up. Doggo 3 was in the living room in complete agony and I somehow managed to get her outside. She runs/falls down the deck steps and runs around screaming in the back yard. I go down and pick her up and lay her down on the deck and hold her down thinking I'm going to have to put this dog out of her misery because I have no idea what the hell is going on. She finally calms down and just lays there panting heavily. I bring her inside and lay her on dog bed in the living room and we all settle in for the night again. Wake up in the morning and doggo 3 seems somewhat normal. Pacing around like usual and restless which was her norm for the past several months. Take her to the vet and she's apparently had a seizure and what woke me up was her coming out of the seizure, naturally it freaked her out. Vet said I had a decision to make because while they checked her vitals and everything seemed OK, another seizure like that would likely kill her. I made the decision to have her put down and I fucking balled like a baby because I wasn't sure if I made the right decision, but I didn't want my kids or my wife to have to experience the post-seizure dramatics that I had.

TLDR - we don't deserve dogs
 
deacfan78 said:
Definitely! We're on doggo 4 right now. Had 3 at once (won't do that again) and doggo 3 was still kicking when we rescued doggo 4. Wife was out of town for work and I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of someone being murdered in cold blood. Don't know how the kids didn't wake up. Doggo 3 was in the living room in complete agony and I somehow managed to get her outside. She runs/falls down the deck steps and runs around screaming in the back yard. I go down and pick her up and lay her down on the deck and hold her down thinking I'm going to have to put this dog out of her misery because I have no idea what the hell is going on. She finally calms down and just lays there panting heavily. I bring her inside and lay her on dog bed in the living room and we all settle in for the night again. Wake up in the morning and doggo 3 seems somewhat normal. Pacing around like usual and restless which was her norm for the past several months. Take her to the vet and she's apparently had a seizure and what woke me up was her coming out of the seizure, naturally it freaked her out. Vet said I had a decision to make because while they checked her vitals and everything seemed OK, another seizure like that would likely kill her. I made the decision to have her put down and I fucking balled like a baby because I wasn't sure if I made the right decision, but I didn't want my kids or my wife to have to experience the post-seizure dramatics that I had.

TLDR - we don't deserve dogs
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You made the right decision. A peaceful end of life is the last gift we can give them.
 
deacfan78 said:
Definitely! We're on doggo 4 right now. Had 3 at once (won't do that again) and doggo 3 was still kicking when we rescued doggo 4. Wife was out of town for work and I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of someone being murdered in cold blood. Don't know how the kids didn't wake up. Doggo 3 was in the living room in complete agony and I somehow managed to get her outside. She runs/falls down the deck steps and runs around screaming in the back yard. I go down and pick her up and lay her down on the deck and hold her down thinking I'm going to have to put this dog out of her misery because I have no idea what the hell is going on. She finally calms down and just lays there panting heavily. I bring her inside and lay her on dog bed in the living room and we all settle in for the night again. Wake up in the morning and doggo 3 seems somewhat normal. Pacing around like usual and restless which was her norm for the past several months. Take her to the vet and she's apparently had a seizure and what woke me up was her coming out of the seizure, naturally it freaked her out. Vet said I had a decision to make because while they checked her vitals and everything seemed OK, another seizure like that would likely kill her. I made the decision to have her put down and I fucking balled like a baby because I wasn't sure if I made the right decision, but I didn't want my kids or my wife to have to experience the post-seizure dramatics that I had.

TLDR - we don't deserve dogs
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i wish i had just read the TLDR. now i'm crying and it's NOT because of my junk
 
Deacfreak07 said:
You made the right decision. A peaceful end of life is the last gift we can give them.
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Yeah, I feel like I did. Doggo 3 didn't really have a great quality of life the last 6 months or so. Always restless and pacing around.
 
Folks should do whatever they want with their pets, but I personally believe (now after that experience) that investing heavily in vet care for one pet is irresponsible. I get it emotionally, but there are so many unwanted pets in the world and so few resources to care for them.
 
deacfan78 said:
Yeah, I feel like I did. Doggo 3 didn't really have a great quality of life the last 6 months or so. Always restless and pacing around.
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We hung on to my first dog longer than we should. Had liver cancer. Drained fluid from his abdomen a few times. I had gotten him while still in college, and we just couldn’t let go. Second dog had cancer as well and we just gave him the best last few months we could. When he had trouble sleeping from the pain, we scheduled a euthanasia the next day. My wife took the day off and she and our son spoiled the hell out of him and I took him at the end of the day. I would put a dog down too early than too late a thousand times over.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
Folks should do whatever they want with their pets, but I personally believe (now after that experience) that investing heavily in vet care for one pet is irresponsible. I get it emotionally, but there are so many unwanted pets in the world and so few resources to care for them.
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That's why we always rescue. Our Logan Lou is a full blooded black lab we got when she was around 11 months. Sweetest fucking dog, just wants all your love and attention, which can get annoying but it is what it is. We're her people so that's our job.
 
was talking with another dad the other day at the playground and he said that he's heard so much about how Bluey is so geat that he's actively turned off from trying to watch it.

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