User blog comment:Kagimizu/Goodbye.../@comment-1669199-20130824205816/@comment-1272757-20130824211816

Thanks Gen... It's just... while he wasn't the dog he used to be, he wasn't in any real pain. He was just... old. Hell, it seemed like he even adapted to his leg issues, getting up and walking about just fine. Just yesterday, he barked up an absolute storm, something he hadn't done in a while. Then his leg gets banged up somehow, and he can't even walk down stairs or squat down to do number 2 anymore.

I knew he would have to go eventually... I knew it when the vet told us that nerve degeneration wasn't curable and would continue over time. But... I thought he would go on his own terms, months from now. Not like this...