I just got back from the vet's where my cousin's 14 year old cat Vanya was put to sleep after being diagnosed w/ kidney failure earlier this month. The $1200 bill was bad, but the worst part was herding a scared, sick animal into a carrier and seeing how the last hours of his life were spent in unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings.
My own cat is fit as a fiddle, but if he ever gets sick enough to need euthanasia, I don't want to put him through all that if I can possible avoid it. So has anybody here ever used a DM opiate to humanely put down a pet or is that just fucked up?
Like someone else said, some vets will do a house call.
Check with your regular vet. Ours does it for no extra cost. They are a great vet, though. They only charged us a normal check-up cost for the house call and euthanasia ($60). Of course we have taken all of our animals them for the last 20 years, so they may give us special treatment.
Ugh I hate having to put animals to sleep, even if it beats the alternative. I've had to put down my cat and my pug in the last year (Cat/June 2013, Pug/March 18th, 2014).
I still can't look at pictures of my pug, Rosie, without crying. I miss her :/