I said goodbye to my baby a few hours ago. I truly hope he is happy. I seem to replay his last moments over and over again. I’ve truly never felt such pain before. I hope he knows that he was loved and I hope he is at peace. Thank you for providing much needed comfort.
@@fh3486 i am there with you - it has been 8 days for me too! my baby was very small and scared of big dogs as they always treated her as their toy. she was never alone... i'm so scared for her that i am not there to protect her .... if rainbow bridge is real, she would be so scared = ... (
I have 24 hrs left with my baby. He has kidney failure and we tried 5 days fluids in the hospital and nothing worked. He’s declining fast. I just lost 2 other days within the last two months as well. I can’t catch a break. I’m devastated
The appointment is made. My Bailey was my service dog. I had horrible mobility issues. In the last 3 months I have improved dramatically. He then began to decline and has lost mobility. He has shown me I’m capable and strong. I honor him for that gift.
Dear Danielle. I found you on TikTok a few months before my lovely furbaby was euthanized. I feel like he was preparing me for the hardest decision in my life. I wouldn't survive this pain without your videos explaining so much about the whole process and forever love. I was with him until his last heartbeat. He came to me in my dream the same night after he transitioned (and he still visits me frequently
Hi Paulina - I'm glad that you've found some help through my videos. It's such a challenging thing to go through. I love that you had the opportunity to say those words to him. Sending you love
My cat had leukemia. I made a sound judgment to wait and watch. He was losing weight rapidly. I never wanted to let him go, but the time was one of the best timings of my life. He was never in pain, and the vet told me the cancer was eating him. I'd give anything to have him back.
My condolences to you, I too had to put down my beloved beautiful white Siberian cat, a loyal faithful friend so attached to me, also in April and also due to cancer (squamous cell carcinoma). It’s still so painful but we’ll get to a better place of comfort and we’ll be reunited with them one day ✝️💜
I just had to put down my precious Brina the cat. She had clear signs of renal failure and her daddy Bob succumb to the same thing 6 years previous and Brina's sister years before that; unfortunately it runs in the family. Regardless, it rips my heart out of my chest every time : ( I would give just about anything to have them back, they were magnificent!!! The guilt is unbearable (could I have done more). I only hope that some sunny day we will get to hang out together again. So I TOTALLY get what you went thru and or are still experiencing!
Thanks for explaining this in detail, it's enormously reassuring. I've been troubled by having to euthanize my 14½ year old hound dog last summer. Her health was declining rapidly, but the morning of her passing we had a marvelous walk and car ride. I love you Mully.
I know this comment is a year old, but I just wanted you to know that it brought a stranger some form of desperately needed comfort. We watched our beloved senior boy struggle, but he was always so happy to see us. Always so loving. When we booked his final appointment we made it a week out and did our best to make that last week so peaceful and loving. He was so happy. I fed him ribeye just for him, stroked his fur, talked to him, napped with him, we sat in the sunshine. I wondered if I was truly doing the right thing. The contemplation was agony. But all signs pointed to him being in pain and not being able to enjoy his life like he had before. We had the vet come to our house so he was as comfortable as possible. There was immediate regret and guilt. It's been a month and I'm still tearing up over it. But somehow reading that I am not alone in this particular experience is comforting to a degree. (though I wouldn't wish this feeling on anyone else). Not much else to say other than thank you. And I do hope that you are more at peace with everything now. Take care 🩵
My baby girl started staring off into space. She made me realize that she was in pain and I didn't what her to suffer no more, yes it does hurt but I'm glad she's not in pain no more. Watching your videos helped me sooo much!!
I want to believe this, but it doesn't make sense to me that any animal would choose a painful or horrific death when they could all decide to go peacefully in their sleep, sparing us the trauma and pain so many of us go through in facing horrible illness or tragic accidents or being forced to make that heartbreaking decision for the animals we love. I have had so many losses in a row that I cannot believe my dog would have chosen to leave me when I was at my most broken point. That makes her seem cruel and uncaring when she was the exact opposite of that; she wouldn't have hurt me for anything. No one would ever be able to convince me she did this on purpose. It wasn't in her to abandon me when I need her the most.
@@14gemgirl I don't even listen to the video, I read the comments and get comfort there. All these humans who have loved another critter SO dearly, so unconditionally - it's far worse than losing most family members (sorry for me it's true anyway) _ I miss my tripod tabby so much had him for 12 years, and I know there will never be another like him.
No one knows the unseen things of this world. Religions & profits may try. Hurt & mistakes are made when attempting to answer the questions of the universe. We can only take the facts we have & apply them. This video is another attempt at making sense of the impossible.
I just put our beautiful little cat to sleep this morning, it was so hard but yet so very peaceful. Thank you for this video because it really helped me today. I am feeling so much guilt and sadness it is overwhelming. I did feel like she was sending me messages and I kept holding on but in the end today, it was her day. She is at peace and not in pain anymore. Hugs to everyone who is nearing the end with their beloved pets or have said goodbye.
I can't begin to thank you enough for this. It gives such Dignity to my soulmate dog Forest's passing. I have been suffering so much since his Euthanasia wondering if I did it too soon. He chose to be in my arms surrounded by Love before his considerable kidney failure became agony. The vet who came to my house said be grateful that you didn't't wait until he was suffering more. That day he ate food again, went for a walk and was playing with his ball after deeply communicating with our family. He didn't suffer, it was peaceful and the hardest thing I have ever been through. The loss so profound and the gifts and lessons he gave me and many others so great.
My soulmate dog of 12 years Bauer got very sick after I was almost finished my BSN. He was there all through my LPN journey and getting my BSN and I feel like he was here to get me through it. A friend said he got me through my studies and knew I could sail on my own. I wish he was here forever but liver cancer made it so I let him go. Thank you for this. Your words always help me. 6 months now. I miss you everyday bauer.❤
I find it very hard to believe that any animal would "choose" to die a horrible, painful death, or to be euthanized. I also feel that I totally betrayed my pet by having her euthanized.....still grieving and feeling terribly guilty after 2 years! Just expressing my thoughts. Thanks for listening.
My beloved cat Lina, 20 years old, passed away yesterday. She had cancer and I had to let her get euthanized. I also feared that I had made the decision a bit too late, but thanks to your video, I now realize that Lina prepared me for this day. She let me know it was time, but she knew that it was very hard for me to let her go and that I needed my family's support to go through it. Just a few days before, my family was still on vacation. She gave me extra time to make sure I had the support I need. I also watched the videos about how animals communicate with us from the other side. That put my mind at ease and lifted such a heavy weight off my soul. I also feel like Lina already gave me a sign (she was always very quick to adapt to new environments), and I am very grateful to know she is still around, watching over me. I also made a tough life decision on the same day she passed that I spent years avoiding. I feel like I reached a state of clarity. I know that through her passing, she is guiding me onto a new path. It also feels like I was guided here to this channel at just the right time. I am very thankful for that!
My was 15 and had weakness in her back legs. I asked her if she was done and ready to go? I built a ramp for her so she could have independence going potty. That work for a year and a half. She got to where I was assisting her with the ramp and she would fall in the yard. I asked her if she was done and if so it is ok and I would do my best to be brave. She got sick and didn't get better, she said it was time.
I shared this with my husband. I decided it was time for us to say goodbye to Miko. She has been fighting cancer for 9 months. On Saturday, everything changed. She was great and wonderful Friday, but Saturday morning when I got up, i noticed she was having a lot of trouble walking. She only had one good back leg. What happened to her other back leg is a different story and has nothing to do with her cancer. Anyways I noticed her good back leg was not working properly. By the end of Saturday, her leg wasn't working at all. By Sunday, whatever was happening moved to her her front legs. By Monday, she couldn't do anything. She was still able to drink and eat, but I had to hold her head up. My youngest son had to carry her outside to go to the bathroom. Even in this state, she refused to make a mess in the house. I found that amazing. I called my husband witch is a over the road truck driver, and told him I was going to call the vet and make an appointment for Tuesday evening so he would have time to say goodbye to her. He got home late Monday night. She was so happy to see him. She even did a big tail wag and gave him a kiss. By Tuesday, she was completely like a wrag doll. 💔😭 I did everything I could to keep her comfortable till her dad got home. I knew in my heart she needed to tell him goodbye, that is why I waited till Tuesday to take her to the vet. Wednesday morning, my husband said he felt guilty that he felt we did her wrong and that we should have waited. Him saying that hurt so much. When we found out Miko had cancer, we agreed that when her quality of life was over, it was time to say goodbye to her. I know in my heart I did right by her. I have no regrets. I hope this helps my husband feel the same way.
My best friend , service dog I had to let go February 9, 2023. She was getting sick and I didn't expect to but it's the most painful thing I've done. Not a day goes by when I don't think of that last moment. She was 20 years old. I thought I was getting better but it seems I'm more de I ressed. Watching her die and knowing I signed the papers. I'm struggling to get a new service dog for my seizures. But I spend my nights crying for her. I have this book called Griffin's Heart that helps with pet death...but she left me here with her brother and I never know if I'll even have a future!
I just lost both of my cats a week apart. I was so lucky enough to have had them for 17 years out of their 20ish years. They weren't related but the way everything happened was so similar. I got them roughly the same time, they were roughly the same age, they got sick around the same time with almost the same illnesses (kidney disease being the big one for both), their health both declined rapidly, and I lost them so close together. I felt guilty when I had to put my baby girl down, I know it needed to happen, but there was a nagging voice that said you could have taken her home and taken her off that thyroid medication and she could have recovered from her wobbliness. But deep down I knew it was going to happen anyway, I just still feel guilty because she was still all there mentally, but her body was failing her. I put down my other cat yesterday. He rapidly wasted away after her passing, when just a few weeks ago he came off of a antibiotic medication that put a spring in his step and he was so vibrant again. He jumped off my bed a few days ago and landed funny and hurt himself and ever since then he stopped eating and eventually just got worse and worse. He was not mentally there anymore like she was, he was in such a bad decline and couldn't walk anymore. I knew I had to do what I've been dreading. My normal vet was closed and I had to take him to a 24 hour pet hospital, which I really didn't want to do because it was unfamiliar to both of us. He was scared. I knew that if I waited even a few hours longer he would have died at home and I didn't want that, I wanted him to have a quick, soft, peaceful passing. I made the right decision, my brain knows it, but my heart does not. I am completely and utterly devastated and feeling hollow to my core. This was a lot of grief in one small time window. My condolences to everyone here commenting about the passing of their beloved babies.
Thank you! I sent Oskar and Lacey, my beloved dogs, home 🌈 at the same time back in 2016 - I have been living with the guilt since. I told the Vet that I would understand if she reported me to the SPCA - she thanked me for recognizing that I was doing the best for my Oskar and Lacey (they both gave me signs they were suffering). Two years earlier I turned the man who abused me into the authorities- an acquaintance yelled at me for being so heartless for turning him in. Your message today finally resonated with me... I got the message from them! thank you! 💗
Thank you for this and your other videos. I had to PTS my kitty Lucy of 18 years just 2 days ago. She had gone blind and had skin cancer and seizures but still loved life and purred and ate, she wasn't in pain the vet said and said it was up to me to decide when. Was amazing to see how her other senses helped but sad to see her lose her sight and playfulness. I made the call when she looked at me at pee'd on the carpet which she had never done but now 2 in 1 day. she died in my arms and had to have 3 injections as her heart was so strong, so i started to feel like i had made a mistake. But this video really helped and she was so peaceful when i buried her. I will miss her every day but i know shes with me and my other pets are still connected to her. thank you
Thank you, Danielle ❤. This is such a comfort as its the hardest decision in the world. The constant questioning of whether the decision was the right one really adds to the pain of grief. Knowing my baby girl chose this for herself helps so much xxx
I don’t believe in coincidence. When I came across your videos. I felt an instant connection to you. Then I looked at your background and your styling is almost identical to mine!! Thankyou this video helps me with tomorrows rainbow 🌈 day
I hope you have a new fur friend by now and maybe you'll find the lesson in that new life. My last one suddenly went at 6 years old and ended up with my new companion of over 13 years now. Sadly she will be parting soon too.😥
@@freedomwarrior5087 I went through something similar, I had a beautiful mixed breed cat named Foxy, who I lost tragically to poisoning during her first two years of life. I was with her in her final moments as she passed away in my arms, I did learn my lesson with her passing and I faced so much guilt with her passing as years later I learned I could have saved her using milk to neutralize the poison she had ingested. We had another cat who ingested the same poison discovering what it was and where they were getting it, which we were able to save. About a year later after her passing her sibling gave birth to my soul mate cat who bore a striking resemblance to her when he was a kitten. I named him Foxers, he was my best friend and constant source of strength, full of so much love and glued at the hip. I had him for a wonderful 18 years before I had to put him down due to a heart murmur and other health issue. I wanted him to have peace and I was with him throughout the process. I miss him terribly and it's been two years since then.
I wish you could talk about choosing not to euthanise your pet, because that’s what I did. I felt that that was what my cat wanted me to do. I really don’t like the idea of euthanasia, but I really felt in my heart that that’s what my beautiful baby wanted me to do. He didn’t want anything to do with the Vet or the treatments, so I didn’t take him back. We went for Bioresonance treatment instead until he passed in my arms 3 1/2 months after the Vet suggestion to euthanise him. Has been 6 months since my cat passed, his name is Toulouse, and everyday I cry. I will never know if the choices I made were the right ones, if what I chose was what he really wanted and the guilt I felt over those choices was overwhelming. I have been trying to find anyone at all to talk about that, but I found no one. What I found was, that it doesn’t really matter what choice we make, we seem to feel guilty one way or the other. Since guilt is part of the grief process, what matters is the intention with which we made that choice and it seems that the majority of us made it out of pure love. My cat was the most beautiful being I have ever met in my life and I will miss him for as long as I live. I get a lot of comfort from your videos, thank you ❤
Thank you for this video ♥️ I miss my 17.7 Maltese dog Jake so much. He passed away on my chest last year. I went thru euthanasia process with him. Everything happen so fast that day. I couldn't think straight. RIP Jake ♥️🙏
@@DanielleMacKinnonI lost my only dog zacky 6 weeks ago he was 12 I had him from birth am devastated I miss him every day how can I get a message from him. 🤞🙏😭
Thank you, Danielle for the video. My lab lived only for 5 years, was euthanized 7 days ago because of his kidney failure. I was living in a guilt that if I hadn't done enough for him being so young.
I honestly praise you for doing this,dear Danielle! You could have made business out of this,taking money for providing us with comfort that we badly need, using our pains to earn money like many others would probably do, but you do this for free! We lost our beloved sweet Bandit 2 days ago... we were both with him until the very end. He crossed over surrounded by greatest love possible. Even though we didn't know until the almost the last moment that we would make this decision to help him avoid any kind of more pain or suffering,i could feel something for the past at least a month time... but now i know what it was. It was him trying to tell me to be with him as much as possible because he will soon cross over... and i am so glad i was! now i see how his precious angel spirit orchestrated all this, and now i see what he wants us both to learn. I have changed so much already during these almost 4 years with him,since we adopted him. It didn't take me long to realize this isn't just a dog,this is something divine inside his old body. We made the special connection that only 2 of us understood and that connection literally pushed me forward into the direction of becoming much better person,to reconnect with my own soul,because me and him are one soul in a way only us can understand.... and his passing is now a final push into action of cleansing my own soul and becoming far better version of myself,to abandon the darkness that had been acumulating over the years... he chose us to point us in the direction of becoming better versions of ourself and with his passing,i know he wants us to take action now. This will completely redefine who i am. and i will do anything to keep on the right track that my sweet sweet beloved angel dog has pushed me onto. I'm not really a religious person, at least when it comes to organized religions,i prefer to rely on my own gut feeling about that,and i choose to firmly believe that our sweet dog is actually a divine spirit,our personal spirit guide,who choose us. And that we will be reunited again when the time comes. I want him to be the first one to greet me when i pass. And to walk with me and show me the way. I will spend the rest of my life believing and trusting that it will happen and that he really is our guardian spirit. That he will always be with us. Please if you hear from him,tell him that i love him more than anything. That he is everything to me. That it's because of him i finally understand what pure love means. Please tell him to always be by my side,until my time comes. To never stop teaching me. Thank you so much again for doing this! ❤
I can't finish this video yet. I need to. My 18.5 year old kitten is nearing the end of his physical incarnation. I know your videos will be comforting. And I am grateful. But the human in me just struggles so much right now
I put my 16 year old Chihuahua/Jack Russell mix down two days ago. It’s been absolutely unbearable. I can’t stop crying. My sweet Anna girl was my whole world. I miss her dearly. I am really struggling with it all. She was my comfort, support, safe place, and best friend. She was always there for me. I am so blessed to have the love of a wonderful dog. I hope she knows just how deeply I loved her. I go and sit with her at her grave for hours just talking to her. I feel such guilt for putting her down but she was in so much pain. I didn't even know this kind of emotional pain existed. It hurts more than I can even express. My heart is so broken. She and I love each other unconditionally. I’m going to miss her until we meet again in Heaven.
Just did mine 2.5 hours ago, 16 years dog, never been sick to unrecoverable by self, proud of its health. But its body got too tiring and paralysed these few days, barely able to move. After doctor's suggestion, decided to spare it from pain with tears and regrets, but I know it is the best option left.
I had to have my pitbull Dope put to sleep yesterday. He was 14 years old and I've had him since he was 8 weeks. He could hardly walk, he lost weight, had sores on him, he was suffering. He'd just had a clean bill of health a few months ago but was degenerating fast. He came to me in my dream 3 days before it was decided to put him down, in the dream I was on my way to visit him at some location but he died before I got there and I cried so hard I felt myself crying in my sleep.. then the day before it was decided he came to me in a dream and he was sitting in the sun healthy staring at me. Then I got the call yesterday that he needed to be put down. He was in a another city with my family at the time. I couldn't make it so I was on video chat with him before he was called back. I'm hurting so bad. I know he was suffering. I feel like his spirit was warning me that I'm not gonna make it in time and he's ready to go. I also feel that if I was in town, he knew I wouldn't want to do it so it had to be when I wasn't around. I hope he's at peace and I hope to see him in my dreams and in the after life one sweet day. My heart goes out to all who have lost your fur babies.❤
First, I'm so sorry for your loss Shawnee. It's very special that he was able to let you know ahead of time like that. Many of us don't get that. Sending you love
@@DanielleMacKinnon Thank you so much and thank you for responding. I just found and subscribed to you and your videos have calmed me so far. I will be doing your tips to try and reach him tonight. 💙
And yes, I've never ever dreamed of him, even while he was alive so to have those dreams back to back 2nights before the day I really feel like his spirit came to tell me because I already was trying to get back to see him because he wasn't doing well. Thanks again
I found this video 26 hours after my furbaby crossed the rainbow bridge on his own time I was with him laying on my bed next to him I'm so empty inside heartbroken that he didn't had a full life he was only three years and eight months old I'm kept asking the same question why couldn't he had a happy long life He was so special (all furbabies are special ) I just wish that he can lay on my chest one last time making doughnuts and suck my top ( he was a baby of +-a week when he was dump) I think that he was doing this thinking he is drinking some milk from his fur mommy It's just so empty inside of me and I'm feeling so guilty for not doing more for him Gizmo will always have a special place in my heart May he climbed the tallest trees over the rainbow bridge enjoying the warm sunshine playing with all the other cats and dogs that went over the rainbow bridge
Thank you so much. Letting my 16 year old Yorkie go this weekend but I know she could go on indefinitely in her current state... I'm the one who can't go on like this anymore. I pray she knows the truth and that my heart is breaking, its just time for me to get off this roller coaster before I fall off. You've been a lifesaver when I lost my Chihuahua 6 months ago... xoxo
My darling boy Oska urinated in his carrier on the way to the vet on the day we had to do it 😢... that was not part of his illness & I believed it was fear of knowing what was about to happen. He'd never done that before. The thought of it breaks my heart that he was scared 😥 I believe he knew 😥Is it possible he was fearful? We miss our boy every day ❤ Thanks Danielle ❤
Thank you so much for your video and information you are helping heal so many broken hearts. Losing a family member is so hard, I had two bonded sisters. I lost my Hope she coded at home, to this day I feel horrible I brought her back only to go to the ER after hours to let her go again. 4 months prior to Hope’s passing she coded and I was able to revive her which is how I learned of her cancer. 3..3yrs later my Maggie has crossed over, she had acquired CHF our vet retired Mag’s annual visit was her last patient she had this gag. Vet said get a video and send it my first instinct is to care for Mag not my phone. Struggling started and I knew I had to get a video. Vet visit Cancer, we went home to enjoy our time, the med was giving short relief. Our last night, restless, uncomfortable, confused and exhausted. I did everything to get my little girl comfortable and settled including my spiritual beliefs morning was ok, then down fast, I made the hardest decision and called. Maggie perked up, we had our final day I was thinking I should cancel then we went down again. When it was time to leave she didn’t want to go, she didn’t want to go in, and then it was just literally traumatizing. I wouldn’t change being there for my Mag. I just didn’t expect Mag put up a fight against the sedative in every sense and the iv I wanted to just leave with her sedated and say I don’t have the right day I will come back. I don’t know if it’s inexperience with this new vet, I will say the vet tech was the one doing everything and her voice was very frustrated and panicked tone. The vet said this is hard repeatedly, said she has a strong will I said why is this happening the vet tech said Mag never liked coming she was not a cooperative patient. Watching this video and I have watched 2 others that elephant is finally stepping off my chest. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Positive thoughts and energy to you
I may have to do this tomorrow. Visited my dog Ollie at the vet. Took him to one vet and he didn’t seem to get better. Yet when he went to the emergency vet he was doing rly good. I’m praying he’ll be okay but I will have to make that decision tomorrow. I’m hoping he knows I love him. I wish he didn’t leave me. I’m incredibly heart broken. I adopted him after losing my other dog Gucci. I believe he brought me to Ollie. I’m praying he’ll be okay. Ollie is one of my many soul mate dogs. I love him so much. It’s so hard letting him go he’s so sweet and so pure. I have to pray about it. If he’s still not showing signs I may have to. I told him I would visit him tomorrow. I want him to go in my arms on his own terms but I love him and feel guilty to make that decision.
I had to say goodbye to my cat Flower last Friday December 29th 2023. Its was so unexpected which I had to have her euthanized. I'm still grappling with the reality that she is gone. After viewing this video, it confirms I did the right thing for her. Again, I grieving her lost terribly and trying my best to heal.
I said goodbye to my pug JoJo just the other day. I had been questioning myself if it's too soon, but really, she was suffering. I am so thankful I came across this video because now I see she was sending me signs! I kept seeing pugs I follow on social media crossing the rainbow bridge and friends too losing their pets. Thanks for the video, it brought me comfort that I did the right thing for my baby.
I just had to help my pet rat Topher pass over and my brain ALWAYS guilt trips me and asks if I did it right, if it was the right time etc. He came out to me to ask for relief from how he felt. He turned 2 in February and his brother died suddenly in January. Fly free my boy
Danielle, I was in a very serious auto wreck just over 20 years ago. I should not have been driving. To my regret and sorrow to this day.. our family's dog .. our family member.. their life was taken in the accident. If they are here to teach us, I'm trying to wrap my head around that. I took their life. 😢
My 12 year old greyhound had bone cancer and it got pretty bad. When the vet came for home euthanasia my dog tried to run away and hide. She dragged herself out of the room and I had to make her come back, lie down and accept it. That was unpleasant for her and me. Haunted me for years.
Can you even communicate with a hamster thats passed on?I have faith that my beloved Roach (fur baby hamster) is happy in heaven now. Kind of strange though because a week or so before his passing I stumbled across a pet loss video which said something on the sort if I could lick your tears I would but I am still with you in spirit and bring me home a brother or sister as a pet and I balled my eyes out not understanding why as he was still with me at that point. But he went down hill fast to a week or two later I was having vivid thoughts in my mind the night before he was put asleep a few hours earlier of him asking me to let him go to heaven the place I always talked to him about but we still always love each other and be together in heaven again. So that night after I came home from work he was limp and unconcious but still breathing. I really wept out loud as I love him with all my heart. I was willing to pay out hundreds to save his life,but the vets advised me the kind thing to let him go. I was relunctant but remembered the conversation I had with my hamster in my mind. I stroked him told him I loved him and that he was about to go to heaven. He was euthanised and he went peacefully. It broke my heart and still do, but his happiness is what matters. Some people may find it odd a human having a connection with a hamster, but I feel that Roach and I really did have a connection on a heart and soul connection, a very rare and unique one.
Thank you for reassuring me that our Frankie is ready to go. He's been sick for a couple months and not getting any better. Today is the day at 1:30 p.m. Our hearts are filled with love and compassion as we let Frankie go... 💔
I miss my Sadie. I let him go on 29 March and it was not easy. I hope she still loves me and I hope to see her one day again. God I miss her. I hope she knows I really really really really miss her.
I had to put my baby boy down five years ago and I felt so bad it took me a few months to come to terms with it he was 14 I still miss him so much but I know I will see him again one day on the other side
I've really been struggling with this. I just said goodbye to my sweet Lacie (14 1/2) in November 2022 and I keep telling myself, did I say goodbye too early? She was in so much pain (osteoarthritis) and at the last moments, she looked at me and said thank you mommy for taking away my pain. But I just still feel so bad and my heart breaks for her every day.
I understand how you feel. It is really, really hard to come to terms with this. But if you can trust that your timing was EXACTLY as she planned it, it might help. Sending you love
My dog had only been poorly for a very short while when we took her to emergency vet, it turned out she had masses in kidney and intestines and we could take her home but she couldn't have pain meds and she would die in 12-24 hrs . We chose to put her to sleep and we were all with her. Do you think she should ahve come home? I thought I'd done the right thing but now I don't know she may have been happier at home but she would have been in pain without the meds.i miss her so much it physically hurts.
This makes me feel better about what happened with my beloved dog. I feel I waited too long and he naturally passed due to his illness. I'm so sorry Harry boy 😓
Thank you so much, Danielle. You have healed a lot of my deep wounds. I’ve been broken since I put my baby to sleep last September. Your messages really touch my heart and change my perspective. I miss him like crazy. It was so hard to put him to sleep ❤️🩹
How can i feel better about my pet getting cremated i loved him so much it hurts my heart making me feel bad that he went through cremation my brain keeps thinking he was in pain during the process
He successfully got my mom and my sister here and me ♡ i held his paw. He sat on my mom. My sister had his hand on his chest. When he died. His eyes didn't glaze over. He looked so peacful. God, I miss him
I lost my best friend, and I blame myself. Please help me, Danielle. I don't think she planned her death, but it was my fault for not applying tick prevention measures before hiking. She got babesiosis, and now my furry happiness, my home, my everything, is gone.
Even though they tried to resist the euthanasia med? It's like Gabby fought it. It broke my heart. But her health was getting worse by the day. I'm so sorry Gabby. 😔
One of the other videos about what actually happens to your pet when they cross over addresses this part better about any resistance- it's not resistance, but the spirit is already starting to disconnect and break away from the physical body. Rather than it being resistance, it's an energy push to help the spirit break with the physical body. 💕❤️ My dog also had a moment of resistance and I felt so bad about it, once I heard it the way it was described in the other video I was able to look back from that perspective and feel better about that part
i lost both my dogs in the last 5 months. the oldest in november and my younger one just last month. when the first one had to be euthanized, i knew it right away. she was found on the floor that morning, unresponsive but conscious. like just completely unaware of anything, even when my mom came over to help me (husband was out of town and i didnt know how to help her), even when we carried her into the car. she had a brief moment or clarity halfway thru the morning but it was gone within 15 minutes. my 2nd one tho, that was a struggle. for the last 2 weeks of his life, his health just plummeted. i was sleeping on the floor of the living room terrified every night. he wasnt able to stand at some points, falling constantly. i kept asking my husband if it was time. he kept saying no. then he might have had a seizure or stroke. just one morning he refused to eat. he was panting horribly. he couldnt stand at all. but he wouldnt take his medication either and that just made it even worse. he had been living with heart failure for the last 5 years (and we were only given 6-18 months! such a trooper) and without his medication he couldnt stop coughing, his fluids building up in him. when he refused to even attempt to get up for dinner i asked one more time if it was his time and hubby finally agreed. of course when we got TO the vet he could finally stand and was active nonstop making me regret my decisions, but i couldnt make him ever go thru that pain again. and my anxiety probably couldnt take it for much longer anyways. i know his heart was struggling, and all the medication was making his kidneys shut down. which was probably causing the seizures as well.
Our beloved cat Oski passed on Aug. 2nd at the age of 21. He had CKD. I could tell he was having trouble walking, and sometimes he would lose control of back legs. I had always told him that I want to make a good decision when it is time to go back in spirit. Please let me know. Oski had a wisdom that I would sometimes refer to him as the cat buddah. The day he looked at me and urinated on the carpet was his way of saying I'm ready now are you getting the message? I made the appointment the night before, I was laying next to him and he put his paw on my cheek and drew me to him and started grooming me on the top of my head. It was his way of saying thank you. The day he made his transition, he looked more tired and when the doctor gave him the injection, he laid his head on my hand within seconds he was gone. I know it was the right thing to do. I feel at peace.
Thank you for sharing your story. It's similar to what I went through and I always wondered what was my furry cat daughter trying to say to me when she could barely sit up, yet looked up at me and just stared into my eyes after syringe feeding her. I thought at that moment, she was saying thank you, but now that she's no longer here... She was actually saying goodbye to me and looking at me for the last time. Her back legs also was losing control and was getting weaker.. Deteriorating more every day and when she couldn't sit up anymore or stand firm on all legs to use the litter box.. She collapsed getting out of the litter box and whimpered to me 3 times as I was walking away to get a paper towel to help clean her. When I heard that whimper, I turned around and we locked eyes.. And she gave out a whimper that I even saw she was using all her strength from her stomach to let out.. I knew she telling me.. help let me go. And I let her go that day. I still can't believe she's gone.
Thank you. I'm having a hard time right now I just lost my boy 2 weeks ago traffic accident he was attacked by a much bigger dog. and I had to put my Girl down a year ago. And I miss both them so so much. my heart is broken I'm dyeing inside 💔
I needed this video today because tomorrow I'm Euthanize my 14.5 year old Chocolate Lab. and this is exactly the thinking I am going through and I'm going to MISS HER. Thank You for this video I have had her all of her 14 plus years.
No. My dog did not want to go. She tried so hard not to go out of the house when i took her. Then she fought so hard not to close her eyes when they sedated her. I can't get those things out of my head and i can't live with this regret but i can't take it back. I don't know what to do with myself. She was always so happy all i had to do was look at her and she would wag her tail with joy. Even when she could no longer walk, she was so very happy all of the time. How could me putting get down be her choice? I am dying inside. This just happened yesterday and i am beside myself with so much guilt. I want to take that choice back because it was the absolute wrong choice. When they thought she was sedated enough they have get that injection and she shot up and wailed in so much pain, my dog never felt pain like that before and now I am feeling it. I did the wrong thing. I made the worst mistake ever in my life.
What is crazy about this is a stranger at my work walked by with a girl that looked exactly like my sick dog the day i was thinging of letting her go to sleep. The owner brought up having to put down another dog and helped talk me through it. I thought that was a sign...
Hi Danielle, I came across your video just now. We put our furbaby down a few days ago and i've been having a hard time. I have guilt and what ifs the come and go. As far as our fur babies sending us messages. 2 days before we put her to sleep, I woke up from a dream of her nudging my face. It felt real. I felt like thay was her trying to tell me it was ok to let her go :( your video has helped me . Thabk you
We just had to put down our 6 month old kitten. I’m heart broken. She was diagnosed with FIP a mutated coronavirus. I held her while she took her last breath. I just hope she knows we loved her. There was a treatment that’s kinda a black market and we couldn’t do that to her. I just hope we made the right choice. And that we didn’t give up on her. Hardest decision because she was so full of life.
We are going through quite the opposite with our 16 yo hound mix. He's not the same dog at all as he was when he was younger than 10, or even when he went though his slow down aging between 11-14. He's now fully geriatric with dementia. He still eats his food and drinks, but doesn't respond at all to our requests. He's become very frail and skinny, and has accidents about 2 times per day. Some days he smells like he's decomposing while alive and it's just disgusting. He actually had a really tough week about a year ago in May, and he pulled out of it, so he we are again. We are in a week to week assessment period with him now...our old friend is gone as far as I'm concerned and we're just taking care of his vessel now as we achieved equilibrium living conditions for him (eating, outdoor exercise and rest). It's not always pleasant when you see and hear stories of senior dogs pushing into elderly status...movies definitely get it wrong and Stephen King got it way wrong in his recent Fairy Tail book.
I felt that my dog has been moving slowly closer to passing since the last year. But more in the last month..But I strongly feel that she was fighting to stay in body . I think God was asking her to leave..and her soul was , as you said previously, slowly moving out and connecting more with an expansive state. The night before whilst vomiting and drinking water all night, a beautiful singing bird sang outside.
This past Friday a neighbors pit bull broke through my fence and killed my two oldest cats Tommy and Fatcat. Dad who is 83 tried to save Tommy from the dog but couldn’t and it went after him. He made it inside. I was still in bed. When my sister woke me and told me what happened I quickly dressed an ran outside. Tommy was laying dead in my front yard. Fatcat was still alive but her throat had been ripped open. The dog was on my porch. Cops showed and he and my sisters husband had to put Fatcat down. She was shot what sounded like 5 times. The cop couldn’t do anything with the dog. I’d been trying for weeks to nurse my youngest cat Gracie back to health she has a UTI the vet has done all he could. She’s lost a lot of weight. Her and Tommy were like father and daughter. I’m still in shock over losing Tommy and Fatcat to such a horrible death. I dunno if I can bare losing Gracie too. Can you tell Tommy and Fatcat I’m so sorry very sorry for how they died. I had let Fatcat outside earlier I feel responsible for what happened to her. If id only not let her out Atleast she’d still be here. Dad did all he could to try and save them and he feels really bad that he couldn’t. As for the dog it’s still alive. The cop told me id have to see a magistrate to get any thing done about it. It’s killed other cats in the area before. It was the most horrible day in my life. Please tell Tommy and Fatcat I’m so sorry for what happened to them.
Making a decision whether or not to euthanized a sick dog is hard. When i saw my keisha who is in IV, is in pain, find it hard to breath, not eating anymore (whenever we force feed her, she just allow the liquid food to flow and spill, no gulping reflex anymore) not drinking water or taking meds anymore, always vomiting, lost weight, not herself, look confused, always lying down, not peeing anymore...i knew its time. It was so devastating and heartbreaking to lose one of my babies but i have to let go and give her peace and stop her pain. She had advance ckd. Her deterioration happened so fast 😢 Rest in peace my beautiful keisha. Please look for me in heaven if its my time to go there ❤️🙏🙏
My girl is 15, has cancer but overall isn’t in too bad of shape. However she has started peeing in her bed, she’s deaf and struggles with her legs. I feel like it’s too soon but I’m struggling. She’s become difficult but I love her so much.
Its true. The week before i had to euthanize my beloved brown burmese cat lockey my brother came over ( he hadnt been over in months). He saw Lockey and voiced his concerns over weight loss, not purring etc. He said if you cant get him better in 4 months when i come back here do the right thing this time anf put him to sleep so ge doesnt suffer like our previous cat did when he went into heart failure and died an unpleasant death. Looking back, my brother gave me this message roght before Lockey randomly went into laboured breathing the following week. It was as if that was a sign or message from Lockey, passed by my brother. I felt anguished about it and unbearable quilt. Lockey told me he didnt want to go- but it was hard to stay here feeling so weak and sick.
My beloved cat, Frances fuzzy winkle was almost 20 years old and two weeks ago. I had to make the choice to put her to sleep. She was so good, for five years she had thyroid disease and her kidneys were going, but she hung in there because she knew I needed her so desperately. And then she started to have to go for fluids three times a week and she did that for a whole year! Two weeks ago she started refusing her fluids, and I knew it was time. After the second day when she didn’t take her fluids I sat down and had a talk with her and I said I know this is your way of letting me know you’re ready and even though I’ll be shattered into 1 million pieces I have to honor you For everything you’ve ever done for me because I know definitively this is what you’re telling me that it’s time. And I didn’t want to see her suffer a minute longer. She had put in her time to be my spirit guide through drug addiction, divorce the death of my mother… I still don’t know what my lessons were from her. I will buy the master class to hopefully reconnect with her and I hope I’ll see her again someday. Until that time my heart is broken and I miss her terribly.
100% i believe that! My sweet beagle died oct 2020 and me and Georgee cat were left alone and grieved him together but i had needed it i think because i started getting sick and covid and several life altering things, i think we see it later. With georgee just tgis week euthanized and i xant tell you how spiritual oir connection was! We felt when jebby spirit xame to visit and he meowed and he knew everything! He also knew that with my disease i have been wanting to choose euthanasia and i have gotten so ill. I believe he knew i wouldn't go wgile ue wax still here! We really were that connected! Hod i miss him so much and i really cant wait yo be with both of them! I was feeling guilty and regret grieving if i should have etc but he got sick and ... thank you! Animals are truly magical!
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. This blog (in the pet dying process according to animals section) often helps people understand and cope with the loss of pets: www.daniellemackinnon.com/pet-euthanasia-at-home/ This one may help as well: www.daniellemackinnon.com/my-cat-or-dog-just-died/ Danielle doesn't offer private readings, but you could get one from one of her Certified Soul Level Animal Communicators. They specialize in Danielle’s type of reading: www.daniellemackinnon.com/readings/ Again, I'm so sorry for your loss, and I hope this helps, Brittany (Team Danielle)
what i would like to understand is how does your pet actually choose euthanasia? The human and doctors are choosing that . I can see them choosing when do die naturally and i’ve seen that with my grandfathers dog . But i’d like to know how they choose euthanasia maybe that will make me feel a tad better about what happened to my dog .
Hi Danielle Thank you for your videos. They have helped me so much. Can you please discuss what animals that have been horribly abused tell you 😢? It's heartbreaking to think that they literally devote their souls to improving ours & you get people that abuse them😭
Two years tomorrow since my Freddy was euthanised. Im hearkbroken & guilt ridden every day wondering if the vet was wrong. It was so sudden. I couldnt bear seeing him that way. My poor baby boy. We held him as he went. I struggle thinking I might one day have to do the same for one of our other two cats. Its overwhelming
I had to say goodbye to my cat, Fudge, last night. He deteriorated so suddenly and I still don’t feel like it was the right decision. I feel so much guilt and I have no idea what to do.
Thank you... i made the decision 2 days ago but its been comming for over a year or so. I was given the signs.. i just didnot expect to feel the guilt and regret. I knew i would miss him and look for him but i just never anticipated the guilt. The techs had a hard time inserting his catheter so unfortunately he was in a little pain and it is NOT WHAT i wanted. It is eating me alive and i just want to move forward. I was able to hold him and calm him just minutes before he crossed over.. im soo sorry brewbee😭😭💔💔💔
The lessons are not clear, it sucks not knowing what the lesson was. It sucks letting them go. We just put one to sleep today and one last year. I swear instead of helping, it breaks our hearts.
I am hoping for some clarity. Your video didn’t necessarily cover my unique situation. I had a rescue dog Isabella for 10 days. I took her to the vet on day 10, an ultrasound of the bladder confirmed TCC , an aggressive bladder tumor. The vet stated she was not comfortable w me taking her home , that she was suffering & euthanasia should be done now. It was all so unexpected. Back story, Bella was surrendered to local shelter. A rescue group pulled her as she was peeing blood . They thought she had an UTI & put her on a broad spectrum antibiotic. She was on the antibiotic when she came to me. As soon as antibiotic course was done, she stopped peeing & deteriorated. That’s why I took her in. For what I thought was a uti. I didn’t have enough time with her to let her know how much I loved her. Also, I feel guilty I did not search for second opinion or done research to try to save her. But I don’t have money for huge vet bills & I have 3 other dogs at home to care for 🥹 I didn’t rescue her to end her life. I feel so guilty
I just put my dog down yesterday , congestive heart failure. It's tearing me apart. It has been about an 8 month battle. And his were going. I would have to. Pick him up to walk. The Stat cough medicine quit working. Constant coughing. I am so sick and so heart broken.
I didn't have the option to euthanize my beloved cat. He didn't see his regular vet and she seen an issue with the heart valve (he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in September of 2023, shortly after I had nearly died of a Saddling Pulmonary Embolism. He seemed to mirror my illnesses, so I was surprised). She told me oh he's fine he will just have good day and bad days so I asked he is OK then she said mhm yes so I took him home that Friday night and he cried all night long. I feel as if I tortured him and made him stay with me when I probably should have crossed him, I'd thought that if the Vet would have said look he's not going to get better and he's not going to respond to treatment, maybe you should give some thought to crossing him verses trying to fix him. I had actually thought about it and had my vet suggested it, I would have ripped my heart out to give him a peaceful crossing but I went by what this quack Dr (sorry I just don't have much regard for her, I blame her for me feeling like I tortured my baby). The ending result was Saturday Oct 14th 2023 my Baby passed in my arms of a heart attack and I feel like the worst kitty parent there ever could be. I want to cry all the time, I regret how he died because I feel I didn't do enough for him, comfort him in his needs. I got another kitty the following Friday, she is almost 1 year old and a beautiful little sweet girl (before I got her I asked my Baby if he wanted me to get a sibling for me that I want him to pick the cat he wanted and I believe he chose her, she is her brothers sister), she is helpful but I still break down and feel terrible and cry because he was a rescue, he was an abused kitten and I had him 14 years. It's been just a little over 4 months since his passing and I am still feeling miserable and like I did nothing for him. In my heart of hearts, I know he knows I love him and I will forever love him but I just can't move passed how I feel, I feel like I failed him as a furbaby parent, regardless if I did or not.
I said goodbye to my baby a few hours ago. I truly hope he is happy. I seem to replay his last moments over and over again. I’ve truly never felt such pain before. I hope he knows that he was loved and I hope he is at peace. Thank you for providing much needed comfort.
I'm so so sorry for your loss.
Sending love and light ❤️
I'm experiencing your pain now.
@@fh3486 i am there with you - it has been 8 days for me too! my baby was very small and scared of big dogs as they always treated her as their toy. she was never alone... i'm so scared for her that i am not there to protect her .... if rainbow bridge is real, she would be so scared = ... (
Same. Doesn’t seem real.
I have 24 hrs left with my baby. He has kidney failure and we tried 5 days fluids in the hospital and nothing worked. He’s declining fast. I just lost 2 other days within the last two months as well. I can’t catch a break. I’m devastated
The appointment is made. My Bailey was my service dog. I had horrible mobility issues. In the last 3 months I have improved dramatically. He then began to decline and has lost mobility. He has shown me I’m capable and strong. I honor him for that gift.
Dear Danielle. I found you on TikTok a few months before my lovely furbaby was euthanized. I feel like he was preparing me for the hardest decision in my life. I wouldn't survive this pain without your videos explaining so much about the whole process and forever love. I was with him until his last heartbeat. He came to me in my dream the same night after he transitioned (and he still visits me frequently
Hi Paulina - I'm glad that you've found some help through my videos. It's such a challenging thing to go through. I love that you had the opportunity to say those words to him. Sending you love
I lost my cat from cancer, she suffered , i had the hardest decision in my life. 😢😢😢
My Lil Miss Tinker-Belle left yesterday! I am so glad I found this site! She was 19 and so ready to go home! I am so beyond heart broken!!!! 😢😢😢
My cat had leukemia. I made a sound judgment to wait and watch. He was losing weight rapidly. I never wanted to let him go, but the time was one of the best timings of my life. He was never in pain, and the vet told me the cancer was eating him. I'd give anything to have him back.
You followed your intuition which gave you more time with him. How beautiful♥
My condolences to you, I too had to put down my beloved beautiful white Siberian cat, a loyal faithful friend so attached to me, also in April and also due to cancer (squamous cell carcinoma). It’s still so painful but we’ll get to a better place of comfort and we’ll be reunited with them one day ✝️💜
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I just had to put down my precious Brina the cat. She had clear signs of renal failure and her daddy Bob succumb to the same thing 6 years previous and Brina's sister years before that; unfortunately it runs in the family. Regardless, it rips my heart out of my chest every time : ( I would give just about anything to have them back, they were magnificent!!! The guilt is unbearable (could I have done more). I only hope that some sunny day we will get to hang out together again. So I TOTALLY get what you went thru and or are still experiencing!
God I despise that disease
Thanks for explaining this in detail, it's enormously reassuring. I've been troubled by having to euthanize my 14½ year old hound dog last summer. Her health was declining rapidly, but the morning of her passing we had a marvelous walk and car ride. I love you Mully.
Sending you love
I know this comment is a year old, but I just wanted you to know that it brought a stranger some form of desperately needed comfort. We watched our beloved senior boy struggle, but he was always so happy to see us. Always so loving. When we booked his final appointment we made it a week out and did our best to make that last week so peaceful and loving. He was so happy. I fed him ribeye just for him, stroked his fur, talked to him, napped with him, we sat in the sunshine. I wondered if I was truly doing the right thing. The contemplation was agony. But all signs pointed to him being in pain and not being able to enjoy his life like he had before. We had the vet come to our house so he was as comfortable as possible. There was immediate regret and guilt. It's been a month and I'm still tearing up over it. But somehow reading that I am not alone in this particular experience is comforting to a degree. (though I wouldn't wish this feeling on anyone else). Not much else to say other than thank you. And I do hope that you are more at peace with everything now. Take care 🩵
@@livejadelive,I’m in the exact same situation as you. Six weeks ago for me. Prayers for our healing.
My baby girl started staring off into space. She made me realize that she was in pain and I didn't what her to suffer no more, yes it does hurt but I'm glad she's not in pain no more. Watching your videos helped me sooo much!!
I want to believe this, but it doesn't make sense to me that any animal would choose a painful or horrific death when they could all decide to go peacefully in their sleep, sparing us the trauma and pain so many of us go through in facing horrible illness or tragic accidents or being forced to make that heartbreaking decision for the animals we love. I have had so many losses in a row that I cannot believe my dog would have chosen to leave me when I was at my most broken point. That makes her seem cruel and uncaring when she was the exact opposite of that; she wouldn't have hurt me for anything. No one would ever be able to convince me she did this on purpose. It wasn't in her to abandon me when I need her the most.
Well said! I feel the same. I have a bit of a problem with these "animal" psychics.
@@14gemgirl I don't even listen to the video, I read the comments and get comfort there. All these humans who have loved another critter SO dearly, so unconditionally - it's far worse than losing most family members (sorry for me it's true anyway) _ I miss my tripod tabby so much had him for 12 years, and I know there will never be another like him.
No one knows the unseen things of this world. Religions & profits may try. Hurt & mistakes are made when attempting to answer the questions of the universe. We can only take the facts we have & apply them. This video is another attempt at making sense of the impossible.
This particular question had been weighing heavy on me for the last 9 years. I am so grateful to now have the answer to it. Thank you Danelle💝
I just put our beautiful little cat to sleep this morning, it was so hard but yet so very peaceful. Thank you for this video because it really helped me today. I am feeling so much guilt and sadness it is overwhelming. I did feel like she was sending me messages and I kept holding on but in the end today, it was her day. She is at peace and not in pain anymore. Hugs to everyone who is nearing the end with their beloved pets or have said goodbye.
I am so sorry for your loss 🩵 sending you love and light ✨
I can't begin to thank you enough for this. It gives such Dignity to my soulmate dog Forest's passing. I have been suffering so much since his Euthanasia wondering if I did it too soon. He chose to be in my arms surrounded by Love before his considerable kidney failure became agony. The vet who came to my house said be grateful that you didn't't wait until he was suffering more. That day he ate food again, went for a walk and was playing with his ball after deeply communicating with our family. He didn't suffer, it was peaceful and the hardest thing I have ever been through. The loss so profound and the gifts and lessons he gave me and many others so great.
My soulmate dog of 12 years Bauer got very sick after I was almost finished my BSN. He was there all through my LPN journey and getting my BSN and I feel like he was here to get me through it. A friend said he got me through my studies and knew I could sail on my own. I wish he was here forever but liver cancer made it so I let him go. Thank you for this. Your words always help me. 6 months now. I miss you everyday bauer.❤
Same here ❤
I lost my dog to that last Saturday it’s horrific so sorry ❤
I find it very hard to believe that any animal would "choose" to die a horrible, painful death, or to be euthanized. I also feel that I totally betrayed my pet by having her euthanized.....still grieving and feeling terribly guilty after 2 years! Just expressing my thoughts. Thanks for listening.
I feel the same. And how do pets know and choose, but humans don't?
Thank you, Thomas. I have a problem with these so-called animal "psychics". I love having pets, but the goodbyes are awful!!@@ThomasDobosz
My beloved cat Lina, 20 years old, passed away yesterday. She had cancer and I had to let her get euthanized. I also feared that I had made the decision a bit too late, but thanks to your video, I now realize that Lina prepared me for this day. She let me know it was time, but she knew that it was very hard for me to let her go and that I needed my family's support to go through it. Just a few days before, my family was still on vacation. She gave me extra time to make sure I had the support I need.
I also watched the videos about how animals communicate with us from the other side. That put my mind at ease and lifted such a heavy weight off my soul. I also feel like Lina already gave me a sign (she was always very quick to adapt to new environments), and I am very grateful to know she is still around, watching over me.
I also made a tough life decision on the same day she passed that I spent years avoiding. I feel like I reached a state of clarity. I know that through her passing, she is guiding me onto a new path. It also feels like I was guided here to this channel at just the right time. I am very thankful for that!
i felt like my dog was telling me it was time and wanted help passing. thankfully the vet let us be there with him till the end.
My was 15 and had weakness in her back legs. I asked her if she was done and ready to go? I built a ramp for her so she could have independence going potty. That work for a year and a half. She got to where I was assisting her with the ramp and she would fall in the yard. I asked her if she was done and if so it is ok and I would do my best to be brave. She got sick and didn't get better, she said it was time.
I shared this with my husband. I decided it was time for us to say goodbye to Miko. She has been fighting cancer for 9 months. On Saturday, everything changed. She was great and wonderful Friday, but Saturday morning when I got up, i noticed she was having a lot of trouble walking. She only had one good back leg. What happened to her other back leg is a different story and has nothing to do with her cancer. Anyways I noticed her good back leg was not working properly. By the end of Saturday, her leg wasn't working at all. By Sunday, whatever was happening moved to her her front legs. By Monday, she couldn't do anything. She was still able to drink and eat, but I had to hold her head up. My youngest son had to carry her outside to go to the bathroom. Even in this state, she refused to make a mess in the house. I found that amazing. I called my husband witch is a over the road truck driver, and told him I was going to call the vet and make an appointment for Tuesday evening so he would have time to say goodbye to her. He got home late Monday night. She was so happy to see him. She even did a big tail wag and gave him a kiss. By Tuesday, she was completely like a wrag doll. 💔😭
I did everything I could to keep her comfortable till her dad got home. I knew in my heart she needed to tell him goodbye, that is why I waited till Tuesday to take her to the vet.
Wednesday morning, my husband said he felt guilty that he felt we did her wrong and that we should have waited. Him saying that hurt so much. When we found out Miko had cancer, we agreed that when her quality of life was over, it was time to say goodbye to her. I know in my heart I did right by her. I have no regrets. I hope this helps my husband feel the same way.
My best friend , service dog I had to let go February 9, 2023. She was getting sick and I didn't expect to but it's the most painful thing I've done. Not a day goes by when I don't think of that last moment. She was 20 years old. I thought I was getting better but it seems I'm more de I ressed. Watching her die and knowing I signed the papers. I'm struggling to get a new service dog for my seizures. But I spend my nights crying for her. I have this book called Griffin's Heart that helps with pet death...but she left me here with her brother and I never know if I'll even have a future!
I just lost both of my cats a week apart. I was so lucky enough to have had them for 17 years out of their 20ish years. They weren't related but the way everything happened was so similar. I got them roughly the same time, they were roughly the same age, they got sick around the same time with almost the same illnesses (kidney disease being the big one for both), their health both declined rapidly, and I lost them so close together. I felt guilty when I had to put my baby girl down, I know it needed to happen, but there was a nagging voice that said you could have taken her home and taken her off that thyroid medication and she could have recovered from her wobbliness. But deep down I knew it was going to happen anyway, I just still feel guilty because she was still all there mentally, but her body was failing her. I put down my other cat yesterday. He rapidly wasted away after her passing, when just a few weeks ago he came off of a antibiotic medication that put a spring in his step and he was so vibrant again. He jumped off my bed a few days ago and landed funny and hurt himself and ever since then he stopped eating and eventually just got worse and worse. He was not mentally there anymore like she was, he was in such a bad decline and couldn't walk anymore. I knew I had to do what I've been dreading. My normal vet was closed and I had to take him to a 24 hour pet hospital, which I really didn't want to do because it was unfamiliar to both of us. He was scared. I knew that if I waited even a few hours longer he would have died at home and I didn't want that, I wanted him to have a quick, soft, peaceful passing. I made the right decision, my brain knows it, but my heart does not. I am completely and utterly devastated and feeling hollow to my core. This was a lot of grief in one small time window. My condolences to everyone here commenting about the passing of their beloved babies.
Thank you! I sent Oskar and Lacey, my beloved dogs, home 🌈 at the same time back in 2016 - I have been living with the guilt since. I told the Vet that I would understand if she reported me to the SPCA - she thanked me for recognizing that I was doing the best for my Oskar and Lacey (they both gave me signs they were suffering). Two years earlier I turned the man who abused me into the authorities- an acquaintance yelled at me for being so heartless for turning him in. Your message today finally resonated with me... I got the message from them! thank you! 💗
Thank you for this and your other videos. I had to PTS my kitty Lucy of 18 years just 2 days ago. She had gone blind and had skin cancer and seizures but still loved life and purred and ate, she wasn't in pain the vet said and said it was up to me to decide when. Was amazing to see how her other senses helped but sad to see her lose her sight and playfulness. I made the call when she looked at me at pee'd on the carpet which she had never done but now 2 in 1 day. she died in my arms and had to have 3 injections as her heart was so strong, so i started to feel like i had made a mistake. But this video really helped and she was so peaceful when i buried her. I will miss her every day but i know shes with me and my other pets are still connected to her. thank you
Thank you, Danielle ❤. This is such a comfort as its the hardest decision in the world. The constant questioning of whether the decision was the right one really adds to the pain of grief. Knowing my baby girl chose this for herself helps so much xxx
Had to put down my best friend today. Thank you for this video. I hope I was of great service to him
I don’t believe in coincidence. When I came across your videos. I felt an instant connection to you. Then I looked at your background and your styling is almost identical to mine!!
Thankyou this video helps me with tomorrows rainbow 🌈 day
Love that!
I still can not come to peace over my best friend leaving at only age 4. No, I do not understand the lesson. 😢.
I hope you have found peace. Time is the worst but best healer. Don't listen to these people, grieve in your own way at your own pace.
I hope you have a new fur friend by now and maybe you'll find the lesson in that new life. My last one suddenly went at 6 years old and ended up with my new companion of over 13 years now. Sadly she will be parting soon too.😥
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I went through something similar, I had a beautiful mixed breed cat named Foxy, who I lost tragically to poisoning during her first two years of life. I was with her in her final moments as she passed away in my arms, I did learn my lesson with her passing and I faced so much guilt with her passing as years later I learned I could have saved her using milk to neutralize the poison she had ingested. We had another cat who ingested the same poison discovering what it was and where they were getting it, which we were able to save.
About a year later after her passing her sibling gave birth to my soul mate cat who bore a striking resemblance to her when he was a kitten. I named him Foxers, he was my best friend and constant source of strength, full of so much love and glued at the hip. I had him for a wonderful 18 years before I had to put him down due to a heart murmur and other health issue. I wanted him to have peace and I was with him throughout the process. I miss him terribly and it's been two years since then.
I wish you could talk about choosing not to euthanise your pet, because that’s what I did. I felt that that was what my cat wanted me to do. I really don’t like the idea of euthanasia, but I really felt in my heart that that’s what my beautiful baby wanted me to do. He didn’t want anything to do with the Vet or the treatments, so I didn’t take him back. We went for Bioresonance treatment instead until he passed in my arms 3 1/2 months after the Vet suggestion to euthanise him. Has been 6 months since my cat passed, his name is Toulouse, and everyday I cry. I will never know if the choices I made were the right ones, if what I chose was what he really wanted and the guilt I felt over those choices was overwhelming. I have been trying to find anyone at all to talk about that, but I found no one. What I found was, that it doesn’t really matter what choice we make, we seem to feel guilty one way or the other. Since guilt is part of the grief process, what matters is the intention with which we made that choice and it seems that the majority of us made it out of pure love. My cat was the most beautiful being I have ever met in my life and I will miss him for as long as I live. I get a lot of comfort from your videos, thank you ❤
I understand,I put my dig down and push I hadnt.i cry everyday so hard.
Thank you for this video ♥️ I miss my 17.7 Maltese dog Jake so much. He passed away on my chest last year. I went thru euthanasia process with him. Everything happen so fast that day. I couldn't think straight. RIP Jake ♥️🙏
You're welcome. Sending you and Jake love
@@DanielleMacKinnon Thank you. Happy Easter 🐇
@@DanielleMacKinnonI lost my only dog zacky 6 weeks ago he was 12 I had him from birth am devastated I miss him every day how can I get a message from him. 🤞🙏😭
Thank you, Danielle for the video. My lab lived only for 5 years, was euthanized 7 days ago because of his kidney failure. I was living in a guilt that if I hadn't done enough for him being so young.
I honestly praise you for doing this,dear Danielle! You could have made business out of this,taking money for providing us with comfort that we badly need, using our pains to earn money like many others would probably do, but you do this for free!
We lost our beloved sweet Bandit 2 days ago... we were both with him until the very end. He crossed over surrounded by greatest love possible.
Even though we didn't know until the almost the last moment that we would make this decision to help him avoid any kind of more pain or suffering,i could feel something for the past at least a month time... but now i know what it was. It was him trying to tell me to be with him as much as possible because he will soon cross over... and i am so glad i was! now i see how his precious angel spirit orchestrated all this, and now i see what he wants us both to learn. I have changed so much already during these almost 4 years with him,since we adopted him. It didn't take me long to realize this isn't just a dog,this is something divine inside his old body. We made the special connection that only 2 of us understood and that connection literally pushed me forward into the direction of becoming much better person,to reconnect with my own soul,because me and him are one soul in a way only us can understand.... and his passing is now a final push into action of cleansing my own soul and becoming far better version of myself,to abandon the darkness that had been acumulating over the years... he chose us to point us in the direction of becoming better versions of ourself and with his passing,i know he wants us to take action now.
This will completely redefine who i am. and i will do anything to keep on the right track that my sweet sweet beloved angel dog has pushed me onto. I'm not really a religious person, at least when it comes to organized religions,i prefer to rely on my own gut feeling about that,and i choose to firmly believe that our sweet dog is actually a divine spirit,our personal spirit guide,who choose us. And that we will be reunited again when the time comes. I want him to be the first one to greet me when i pass. And to walk with me and show me the way. I will spend the rest of my life believing and trusting that it will happen and that he really is our guardian spirit. That he will always be with us.
Please if you hear from him,tell him that i love him more than anything. That he is everything to me. That it's because of him i finally understand what pure love means. Please tell him to always be by my side,until my time comes. To never stop teaching me.
Thank you so much again for doing this! ❤
Thank you so much for this. I really needed to hear this. I've watched all your videos & have your books. Thank you Danielle
I have been without our sweet Kota for over a year and I feel like I was meant to see this video. Thank you!
I can't finish this video yet. I need to. My 18.5 year old kitten is nearing the end of his physical incarnation. I know your videos will be comforting. And I am grateful. But the human in me just struggles so much right now
I put my 16 year old Chihuahua/Jack Russell mix down two days ago. It’s been absolutely unbearable. I can’t stop crying. My sweet Anna girl was my whole world. I miss her dearly. I am really struggling with it all. She was my comfort, support, safe place, and best friend. She was always there for me. I am so blessed to have the love of a wonderful dog. I hope she knows just how deeply I loved her. I go and sit with her at her grave for hours just talking to her. I feel such guilt for putting her down but she was in so much pain. I didn't even know this kind of emotional pain existed. It hurts more than I can even express. My heart is so broken. She and I love each other unconditionally. I’m going to miss her until we meet again in Heaven.
Just did mine 2.5 hours ago, 16 years dog, never been sick to unrecoverable by self, proud of its health. But its body got too tiring and paralysed these few days, barely able to move. After doctor's suggestion, decided to spare it from pain with tears and regrets, but I know it is the best option left.
I had to have my pitbull Dope put to sleep yesterday. He was 14 years old and I've had him since he was 8 weeks. He could hardly walk, he lost weight, had sores on him, he was suffering. He'd just had a clean bill of health a few months ago but was degenerating fast. He came to me in my dream 3 days before it was decided to put him down, in the dream I was on my way to visit him at some location but he died before I got there and I cried so hard I felt myself crying in my sleep.. then the day before it was decided he came to me in a dream and he was sitting in the sun healthy staring at me. Then I got the call yesterday that he needed to be put down. He was in a another city with my family at the time. I couldn't make it so I was on video chat with him before he was called back. I'm hurting so bad. I know he was suffering. I feel like his spirit was warning me that I'm not gonna make it in time and he's ready to go. I also feel that if I was in town, he knew I wouldn't want to do it so it had to be when I wasn't around. I hope he's at peace and I hope to see him in my dreams and in the after life one sweet day. My heart goes out to all who have lost your fur babies.❤
First, I'm so sorry for your loss Shawnee. It's very special that he was able to let you know ahead of time like that. Many of us don't get that. Sending you love
@@DanielleMacKinnon Thank you so much and thank you for responding. I just found and subscribed to you and your videos have calmed me so far. I will be doing your tips to try and reach him tonight. 💙
And yes, I've never ever dreamed of him, even while he was alive so to have those dreams back to back 2nights before the day I really feel like his spirit came to tell me because I already was trying to get back to see him because he wasn't doing well. Thanks again
I found this video 26 hours after my furbaby crossed the rainbow bridge on his own time I was with him laying on my bed next to him I'm so empty inside heartbroken that he didn't had a full life he was only three years and eight months old I'm kept asking the same question why couldn't he had a happy long life He was so special (all furbabies are special ) I just wish that he can lay on my chest one last time making doughnuts and suck my top ( he was a baby of +-a week when he was dump) I think that he was doing this thinking he is drinking some milk from his fur mommy It's just so empty inside of me and I'm feeling so guilty for not doing more for him Gizmo will always have a special place in my heart May he climbed the tallest trees over the rainbow bridge enjoying the warm sunshine playing with all the other cats and dogs that went over the rainbow bridge
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Thank you so much. Letting my 16 year old Yorkie go this weekend but I know she could go on indefinitely in her current state... I'm the one who can't go on like this anymore. I pray she knows the truth and that my heart is breaking, its just time for me to get off this roller coaster before I fall off. You've been a lifesaver when I lost my Chihuahua 6 months ago... xoxo
My darling boy Oska urinated in his carrier on the way to the vet on the day we had to do it 😢... that was not part of his illness & I believed it was fear of knowing what was about to happen. He'd never done that before. The thought of it breaks my heart that he was scared 😥 I believe he knew 😥Is it possible he was fearful? We miss our boy every day ❤ Thanks Danielle ❤
My heart tells me Oska's spirit was back in loving arms in that better place before he experienced any fear or pain.
Thank you so much for your video and information you are helping heal so many broken hearts.
Losing a family member is so hard, I had two bonded sisters. I lost my Hope she coded at home, to this day I feel horrible I brought her back only to go to the ER after hours to let her go again. 4 months prior to Hope’s passing she coded and I was able to revive her which is how I learned of her cancer.
3..3yrs later my Maggie has crossed over, she had acquired CHF our vet retired Mag’s annual visit was her last patient she had this gag. Vet said get a video and send it my first instinct is to care for Mag not my phone. Struggling started and I knew I had to get a video. Vet visit Cancer, we went home to enjoy our time, the med was giving short relief. Our last night, restless, uncomfortable, confused and exhausted. I did everything to get my little girl comfortable and settled including my spiritual beliefs morning was ok, then down fast, I made the hardest decision and called. Maggie perked up, we had our final day I was thinking I should cancel then we went down again. When it was time to leave she didn’t want to go, she didn’t want to go in, and then it was just literally traumatizing. I wouldn’t change being there for my Mag. I just didn’t expect Mag put up a fight against the sedative in every sense and the iv I wanted to just leave with her sedated and say I don’t have the right day I will come back. I don’t know if it’s inexperience with this new vet, I will say the vet tech was the one doing everything and her voice was very frustrated and panicked tone. The vet said this is hard repeatedly, said she has a strong will I said why is this happening the vet tech said Mag never liked coming she was not a cooperative patient. Watching this video and I have watched 2 others that elephant is finally stepping off my chest. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Positive thoughts and energy to you
Thank you for so gently holding my hand and heart through this heart-rending process.
I may have to do this tomorrow. Visited my dog Ollie at the vet. Took him to one vet and he didn’t seem to get better. Yet when he went to the emergency vet he was doing rly good. I’m praying he’ll be okay but I will have to make that decision tomorrow. I’m hoping he knows I love him. I wish he didn’t leave me. I’m incredibly heart broken. I adopted him after losing my other dog Gucci. I believe he brought me to Ollie. I’m praying he’ll be okay. Ollie is one of my many soul mate dogs. I love him so much. It’s so hard letting him go he’s so sweet and so pure. I have to pray about it. If he’s still not showing signs I may have to. I told him I would visit him tomorrow. I want him to go in my arms on his own terms but I love him and feel guilty to make that decision.
This just made saying goodbye to my dog 10 folds harder.
🩵 sending you love ✨
I had to say goodbye to my cat Flower last Friday December 29th 2023. Its was so unexpected which I had to have her euthanized. I'm still grappling with the reality that she is gone. After viewing this video, it confirms I did the right thing for her. Again, I grieving her lost terribly and trying my best to heal.
This video helped me sooo much. Thank you!!
My 15 year old lab mix, Bella, passed away yesterday. Your videos are very comforting. Thank you!
You are a very kind lady.
I said goodbye to my pug JoJo just the other day. I had been questioning myself if it's too soon, but really, she was suffering. I am so thankful I came across this video because now I see she was sending me signs! I kept seeing pugs I follow on social media crossing the rainbow bridge and friends too losing their pets. Thanks for the video, it brought me comfort that I did the right thing for my baby.
I just had to help my pet rat Topher pass over and my brain ALWAYS guilt trips me and asks if I did it right, if it was the right time etc.
He came out to me to ask for relief from how he felt. He turned 2 in February and his brother died suddenly in January. Fly free my boy
Danielle, I was in a very serious auto wreck just over 20 years ago. I should not have been driving. To my regret and sorrow to this day.. our family's dog .. our family member.. their life was taken in the accident. If they are here to teach us, I'm trying to wrap my head around that. I took their life. 😢
My 12 year old greyhound had bone cancer and it got pretty bad. When the vet came for home euthanasia my dog tried to run away and hide. She dragged herself out of the room and I had to make her come back, lie down and accept it. That was unpleasant for her and me. Haunted me for years.
Can you even communicate with a hamster thats passed on?I have faith that my beloved Roach (fur baby hamster) is happy in heaven now. Kind of strange though because a week or so before his passing I stumbled across a pet loss video which said something on the sort if I could lick your tears I would but I am still with you in spirit and bring me home a brother or sister as a pet and I balled my eyes out not understanding why as he was still with me at that point. But he went down hill fast to a week or two later I was having vivid thoughts in my mind the night before he was put asleep a few hours earlier of him asking me to let him go to heaven the place I always talked to him about but we still always love each other and be together in heaven again. So that night after I came home from work he was limp and unconcious but still breathing. I really wept out loud as I love him with all my heart. I was willing to pay out hundreds to save his life,but the vets advised me the kind thing to let him go. I was relunctant but remembered the conversation I had with my hamster in my mind. I stroked him told him I loved him and that he was about to go to heaven. He was euthanised and he went peacefully. It broke my heart and still do, but his happiness is what matters. Some people may find it odd a human having a connection with a hamster, but I feel that Roach and I really did have a connection on a heart and soul connection, a very rare and unique one.
Thank you for reassuring me that our Frankie is ready to go. He's been sick for a couple months and not getting any better. Today is the day at 1:30 p.m. Our hearts are filled with love and compassion as we let Frankie go... 💔
I'm so sorry for your loss 🩵 sending you love and light ✨
I miss my Sadie. I let him go on 29 March and it was not easy. I hope she still loves me and I hope to see her one day again. God I miss her. I hope she knows I really really really really miss her.
yes she knows ;D we let our sweet dog daughter go on Thursday 21st March 2024 , sending you a very warm gentle hug , she loves you so much
I had to put my baby boy down five years ago and I felt so bad it took me a few months to come to terms with it he was 14 I still miss him so much but I know I will see him again one day on the other side
I've really been struggling with this. I just said goodbye to my sweet Lacie (14 1/2) in November 2022 and I keep telling myself, did I say goodbye too early? She was in so much pain (osteoarthritis) and at the last moments, she looked at me and said thank you mommy for taking away my pain. But I just still feel so bad and my heart breaks for her every day.
I understand how you feel. It is really, really hard to come to terms with this. But if you can trust that your timing was EXACTLY as she planned it, it might help. Sending you love
My dog had only been poorly for a very short while when we took her to emergency vet, it turned out she had masses in kidney and intestines and we could take her home but she couldn't have pain meds and she would die in 12-24 hrs . We chose to put her to sleep and we were all with her. Do you think she should ahve come home? I thought I'd done the right thing but now I don't know she may have been happier at home but she would have been in pain without the meds.i miss her so much it physically hurts.
Why would my other dog choose to die in a horrifying manner? We would have taken her to the vet. Now we all live qith guilt
This makes me feel better about what happened with my beloved dog. I feel I waited too long and he naturally passed due to his illness. I'm so sorry Harry boy 😓
Thank you so much, Danielle. You have healed a lot of my deep wounds. I’ve been broken since I put my baby to sleep last September. Your messages really touch my heart and change my perspective. I miss him like crazy. It was so hard to put him to sleep ❤️🩹
How can i feel better about my pet getting cremated i loved him so much it hurts my heart making me feel bad that he went through cremation my brain keeps thinking he was in pain during the process
He successfully got my mom and my sister here and me ♡ i held his paw. He sat on my mom. My sister had his hand on his chest. When he died. His eyes didn't glaze over. He looked so peacful. God, I miss him
I lost my best friend, and I blame myself. Please help me, Danielle. I don't think she planned her death, but it was my fault for not applying tick prevention measures before hiking. She got babesiosis, and now my furry happiness, my home, my everything, is gone.
Even though they tried to resist the euthanasia med? It's like Gabby fought it. It broke my heart. But her health was getting worse by the day. I'm so sorry Gabby. 😔
One of the other videos about what actually happens to your pet when they cross over addresses this part better about any resistance- it's not resistance, but the spirit is already starting to disconnect and break away from the physical body. Rather than it being resistance, it's an energy push to help the spirit break with the physical body. 💕❤️ My dog also had a moment of resistance and I felt so bad about it, once I heard it the way it was described in the other video I was able to look back from that perspective and feel better about that part
i lost both my dogs in the last 5 months. the oldest in november and my younger one just last month. when the first one had to be euthanized, i knew it right away. she was found on the floor that morning, unresponsive but conscious. like just completely unaware of anything, even when my mom came over to help me (husband was out of town and i didnt know how to help her), even when we carried her into the car. she had a brief moment or clarity halfway thru the morning but it was gone within 15 minutes. my 2nd one tho, that was a struggle. for the last 2 weeks of his life, his health just plummeted. i was sleeping on the floor of the living room terrified every night. he wasnt able to stand at some points, falling constantly. i kept asking my husband if it was time. he kept saying no. then he might have had a seizure or stroke. just one morning he refused to eat. he was panting horribly. he couldnt stand at all. but he wouldnt take his medication either and that just made it even worse. he had been living with heart failure for the last 5 years (and we were only given 6-18 months! such a trooper) and without his medication he couldnt stop coughing, his fluids building up in him. when he refused to even attempt to get up for dinner i asked one more time if it was his time and hubby finally agreed. of course when we got TO the vet he could finally stand and was active nonstop making me regret my decisions, but i couldnt make him ever go thru that pain again. and my anxiety probably couldnt take it for much longer anyways. i know his heart was struggling, and all the medication was making his kidneys shut down. which was probably causing the seizures as well.
Our beloved cat Oski passed on Aug. 2nd at the age of 21. He had CKD. I could tell he was having trouble walking, and sometimes he would lose control of back legs. I had always told him that I want to make a good decision when it is time to go back in spirit. Please let me know. Oski had a wisdom that I would sometimes refer to him as the cat buddah. The day he looked at me and urinated on the carpet was his way of saying I'm ready now are you getting the message? I made the appointment the night before, I was laying next to him and he put his paw on my cheek and drew me to him and started grooming me on the top of my head. It was his way of saying thank you. The day he made his transition, he looked more tired and when the doctor gave him the injection, he laid his head on my hand within seconds he was gone. I know it was the right thing to do. I feel at peace.
Thank you for sharing your story. It's similar to what I went through and I always wondered what was my furry cat daughter trying to say to me when she could barely sit up, yet looked up at me and just stared into my eyes after syringe feeding her. I thought at that moment, she was saying thank you, but now that she's no longer here... She was actually saying goodbye to me and looking at me for the last time. Her back legs also was losing control and was getting weaker.. Deteriorating more every day and when she couldn't sit up anymore or stand firm on all legs to use the litter box.. She collapsed getting out of the litter box and whimpered to me 3 times as I was walking away to get a paper towel to help clean her. When I heard that whimper, I turned around and we locked eyes.. And she gave out a whimper that I even saw she was using all her strength from her stomach to let out.. I knew she telling me.. help let me go. And I let her go that day. I still can't believe she's gone.
Thank you. I'm having a hard time right now I just lost my boy 2 weeks ago traffic accident he was attacked by a much bigger dog. and I had to put my Girl down a year ago. And I miss both them so so much. my heart is broken I'm dyeing inside 💔
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I'm so sorry for your loss.
@@DanielleMacKinnon Thank you. I'm really having a hard time with it. on what happen to him.
I needed this video today because tomorrow I'm Euthanize my 14.5 year old Chocolate Lab. and this is exactly the thinking I am going through and I'm going to MISS HER. Thank You for this video I have had her all of her 14 plus years.
No. My dog did not want to go. She tried so hard not to go out of the house when i took her. Then she fought so hard not to close her eyes when they sedated her. I can't get those things out of my head and i can't live with this regret but i can't take it back. I don't know what to do with myself. She was always so happy all i had to do was look at her and she would wag her tail with joy. Even when she could no longer walk, she was so very happy all of the time. How could me putting get down be her choice?
I am dying inside. This just happened yesterday and i am beside myself with so much guilt. I want to take that choice back because it was the absolute wrong choice.
When they thought she was sedated enough they have get that injection and she shot up and wailed in so much pain, my dog never felt pain like that before and now I am feeling it.
I did the wrong thing. I made the worst mistake ever in my life.
What is crazy about this is a stranger at my work walked by with a girl that looked exactly like my sick dog the day i was thinging of letting her go to sleep. The owner brought up having to put down another dog and helped talk me through it. I thought that was a sign...
My dog was diagnosed with kidney failure and has to be put down tomorrow,I've been crying all day
What about cases of behavioral euthanasia in younger pets? I struggle seeing why or how they made that choice.
She’s deceived and borderline looney.
Animals don’t have power over anything.
My cat loved me a lot....please tell him that I miss him a lot.....
Thank you for this ❤️🩹🐾🐾
Hi Danielle, I came across your video just now. We put our furbaby down a few days ago and i've been having a hard time. I have guilt and what ifs the come and go. As far as our fur babies sending us messages. 2 days before we put her to sleep, I woke up from a dream of her nudging my face. It felt real. I felt like thay was her trying to tell me it was ok to let her go :( your video has helped me .
Thabk you
It would be great to see Jeff Mara (here on YT) interview you.
I wish I knew the lesson he was teaching me ...
We just had to put down our 6 month old kitten. I’m heart broken. She was diagnosed with FIP a mutated coronavirus. I held her while she took her last breath. I just hope she knows we loved her. There was a treatment that’s kinda a black market and we couldn’t do that to her. I just hope we made the right choice. And that we didn’t give up on her. Hardest decision because she was so full of life.
We are going through quite the opposite with our 16 yo hound mix. He's not the same dog at all as he was when he was younger than 10, or even when he went though his slow down aging between 11-14. He's now fully geriatric with dementia. He still eats his food and drinks, but doesn't respond at all to our requests. He's become very frail and skinny, and has accidents about 2 times per day. Some days he smells like he's decomposing while alive and it's just disgusting. He actually had a really tough week about a year ago in May, and he pulled out of it, so he we are again. We are in a week to week assessment period with him now...our old friend is gone as far as I'm concerned and we're just taking care of his vessel now as we achieved equilibrium living conditions for him (eating, outdoor exercise and rest). It's not always pleasant when you see and hear stories of senior dogs pushing into elderly status...movies definitely get it wrong and Stephen King got it way wrong in his recent Fairy Tail book.
I felt that my dog has been moving slowly closer to passing since the last year. But more in the last month..But I strongly feel that she was fighting to stay in body . I think God was asking her to leave..and her soul was , as you said previously, slowly moving out and connecting more with an expansive state. The night before whilst vomiting and drinking water all night, a beautiful singing bird sang outside.
This past Friday a neighbors pit bull broke through my fence and killed my two oldest cats Tommy and Fatcat. Dad who is 83 tried to save Tommy from the dog but couldn’t and it went after him. He made it inside. I was still in bed. When my sister woke me and told me what happened I quickly dressed an ran outside. Tommy was laying dead in my front yard. Fatcat was still alive but her throat had been ripped open. The dog was on my porch. Cops showed and he and my sisters husband had to put Fatcat down. She was shot what sounded like 5 times. The cop couldn’t do anything with the dog. I’d been trying for weeks to nurse my youngest cat Gracie back to health she has a UTI the vet has done all he could. She’s lost a lot of weight. Her and Tommy were like father and daughter. I’m still in shock over losing Tommy and Fatcat to such a horrible death. I dunno if I can bare losing Gracie too. Can you tell Tommy and Fatcat I’m so sorry very sorry for how they died. I had let Fatcat outside earlier I feel responsible for what happened to her. If id only not let her out Atleast she’d still be here. Dad did all he could to try and save them and he feels really bad that he couldn’t. As for the dog it’s still alive. The cop told me id have to see a magistrate to get any thing done about it. It’s killed other cats in the area before. It was the most horrible day in my life. Please tell Tommy and Fatcat I’m so sorry for what happened to them.
When did Kelso pass and have you gotten another pet?
Making a decision whether or not to euthanized a sick dog is hard. When i saw my keisha who is in IV, is in pain, find it hard to breath, not eating anymore (whenever we force feed her, she just allow the liquid food to flow and spill, no gulping reflex anymore) not drinking water or taking meds anymore, always vomiting, lost weight, not herself, look confused, always lying down, not peeing anymore...i knew its time. It was so devastating and heartbreaking to lose one of my babies but i have to let go and give her peace and stop her pain. She had advance ckd. Her deterioration happened so fast 😢 Rest in peace my beautiful keisha. Please look for me in heaven if its my time to go there ❤️🙏🙏
My girl is 15, has cancer but overall isn’t in too bad of shape. However she has started peeing in her bed, she’s deaf and struggles with her legs. I feel like it’s too soon but I’m struggling. She’s become difficult but I love her so much.
Its true. The week before i had to euthanize my beloved brown burmese cat lockey my brother came over ( he hadnt been over in months). He saw Lockey and voiced his concerns over weight loss, not purring etc. He said if you cant get him better in 4 months when i come back here do the right thing this time anf put him to sleep so ge doesnt suffer like our previous cat did when he went into heart failure and died an unpleasant death.
Looking back, my brother gave me this message roght before Lockey randomly went into laboured breathing the following week. It was as if that was a sign or message from Lockey, passed by my brother.
I felt anguished about it and unbearable quilt. Lockey told me he didnt want to go- but it was hard to stay here feeling so weak and sick.
My beloved cat, Frances fuzzy winkle was almost 20 years old and two weeks ago. I had to make the choice to put her to sleep. She was so good, for five years she had thyroid disease and her kidneys were going, but she hung in there because she knew I needed her so desperately. And then she started to have to go for fluids three times a week and she did that for a whole year! Two weeks ago she started refusing her fluids, and I knew it was time. After the second day when she didn’t take her fluids I sat down and had a talk with her and I said I know this is your way of letting me know you’re ready and even though I’ll be shattered into 1 million pieces I have to honor you For everything you’ve ever done for me because I know definitively this is what you’re telling me that it’s time. And I didn’t want to see her suffer a minute longer. She had put in her time to be my spirit guide through drug addiction, divorce the death of my mother… I still don’t know what my lessons were from her. I will buy the master class to hopefully reconnect with her and I hope I’ll see her again someday. Until that time my heart is broken and I miss her terribly.
This video was very comforting, thank you 🙏❤️
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100% i believe that! My sweet beagle died oct 2020 and me and Georgee cat were left alone and grieved him together but i had needed it i think because i started getting sick and covid and several life altering things, i think we see it later. With georgee just tgis week euthanized and i xant tell you how spiritual oir connection was! We felt when jebby spirit xame to visit and he meowed and he knew everything! He also knew that with my disease i have been wanting to choose euthanasia and i have gotten so ill. I believe he knew i wouldn't go wgile ue wax still here! We really were that connected! Hod i miss him so much and i really cant wait yo be with both of them! I was feeling guilty and regret grieving if i should have etc but he got sick and ... thank you! Animals are truly magical!
Danielle can you please do another TH-cam live Q&A event like the one you did a year ago?With much gratitude🙏❤️
Lost my 3 babies cats 2 months ago...among them I could not meet my favorite chunu my 10 months old cat.wwhom I loved the most.I miss them terribily..
I had to put down my 16 year old Miniature Schnauzer a few weeks ago on my birthday. Hardest decision I've ever had to make.
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. This blog (in the pet dying process according to animals section) often helps people understand and cope with the loss of pets: www.daniellemackinnon.com/pet-euthanasia-at-home/
This one may help as well: www.daniellemackinnon.com/my-cat-or-dog-just-died/
Danielle doesn't offer private readings, but you could get one from one of her Certified Soul Level Animal Communicators. They specialize in Danielle’s type of reading: www.daniellemackinnon.com/readings/
Again, I'm so sorry for your loss, and I hope this helps,
Brittany (Team Danielle)
what i would like to understand is how does your pet actually choose euthanasia? The human and doctors are choosing that . I can see them choosing when do die naturally and i’ve seen that with my grandfathers dog . But i’d like to know how they choose euthanasia maybe that will make me feel a tad better about what happened to my dog .
Thank You! This really helped!
Hi Danielle
Thank you for your videos.
They have helped me so much.
Can you please discuss what animals that have been horribly abused tell you 😢?
It's heartbreaking to think that they literally devote their souls to improving ours & you get people that abuse them😭
Two years tomorrow since my Freddy was euthanised. Im hearkbroken & guilt ridden every day wondering if the vet was wrong. It was so sudden. I couldnt bear seeing him that way. My poor baby boy. We held him as he went. I struggle thinking I might one day have to do the same for one of our other two cats. Its overwhelming
I had to say goodbye to my cat, Fudge, last night. He deteriorated so suddenly and I still don’t feel like it was the right decision. I feel so much guilt and I have no idea what to do.
Thank you... i made the decision 2 days ago but its been comming for over a year or so. I was given the signs.. i just didnot expect to feel the guilt and regret. I knew i would miss him and look for him but i just never anticipated the guilt. The techs had a hard time inserting his catheter so unfortunately he was in a little pain and it is NOT WHAT i wanted. It is eating me alive and i just want to move forward. I was able to hold him and calm him just minutes before he crossed over.. im soo sorry brewbee😭😭💔💔💔
There are no words that describe the guilt that follows. I am all consumed with guilt and worry if it was too soon. I wish you peace of mind.
The lessons are not clear, it sucks not knowing what the lesson was. It sucks letting them go. We just put one to sleep today and one last year. I swear instead of helping, it breaks our hearts.
I am hoping for some clarity. Your video didn’t necessarily cover my unique situation. I had a rescue dog Isabella for 10 days. I took her to the vet on day 10, an ultrasound of the bladder confirmed TCC , an aggressive bladder tumor. The vet stated she was not comfortable w me taking her home , that she was suffering & euthanasia should be done now. It was all so unexpected. Back story, Bella was surrendered to local shelter. A rescue group pulled her as she was peeing blood . They thought she had an UTI & put her on a broad spectrum antibiotic. She was on the antibiotic when she came to me. As soon as antibiotic course was done, she stopped peeing & deteriorated. That’s why I took her in. For what I thought was a uti. I didn’t have enough time with her to let her know how much I loved her. Also, I feel guilty I did not search for second opinion or done research to try to save her. But I don’t have money for huge vet bills & I have 3 other dogs at home to care for 🥹 I didn’t rescue her to end her life. I feel so guilty
Does this apply to behavioral euthanasia as well?? For a aggressive animal?
I just put my dog down yesterday , congestive heart failure. It's tearing me apart. It has been about an 8 month battle. And his were going. I would have to. Pick him up to walk. The Stat cough medicine quit working. Constant coughing. I am so sick and so heart broken.
I didn't have the option to euthanize my beloved cat. He didn't see his regular vet and she seen an issue with the heart valve (he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in September of 2023, shortly after I had nearly died of a Saddling Pulmonary Embolism. He seemed to mirror my illnesses, so I was surprised). She told me oh he's fine he will just have good day and bad days so I asked he is OK then she said mhm yes so I took him home that Friday night and he cried all night long. I feel as if I tortured him and made him stay with me when I probably should have crossed him, I'd thought that if the Vet would have said look he's not going to get better and he's not going to respond to treatment, maybe you should give some thought to crossing him verses trying to fix him. I had actually thought about it and had my vet suggested it, I would have ripped my heart out to give him a peaceful crossing but I went by what this quack Dr (sorry I just don't have much regard for her, I blame her for me feeling like I tortured my baby). The ending result was Saturday Oct 14th 2023 my Baby passed in my arms of a heart attack and I feel like the worst kitty parent there ever could be. I want to cry all the time, I regret how he died because I feel I didn't do enough for him, comfort him in his needs. I got another kitty the following Friday, she is almost 1 year old and a beautiful little sweet girl (before I got her I asked my Baby if he wanted me to get a sibling for me that I want him to pick the cat he wanted and I believe he chose her, she is her brothers sister), she is helpful but I still break down and feel terrible and cry because he was a rescue, he was an abused kitten and I had him 14 years. It's been just a little over 4 months since his passing and I am still feeling miserable and like I did nothing for him. In my heart of hearts, I know he knows I love him and I will forever love him but I just can't move passed how I feel, I feel like I failed him as a furbaby parent, regardless if I did or not.