Help with pet euthanasia

My 16 year-old-dog is on his last legs and will be checking out soon. I want to do it in the home that he knows and around the people he knows and loves. Is there something that I buy here that would help me provide him with that kind of farewell? He is about 34lbs.

Thanks in advance,

Dipping

There are in-home euthanasia services. I recommend using them. Less trauma, and less chance of messing up, they use a series of drugs to keep the dog from presenting extreme overdose symptoms and a drug that doesn't let them feel or remember falling asleep. Without the proper technique and drugs you will most certainly cause more harm than good. Please use veterinary professionals.

I'd find a vet that does home visits if at all possible. Many do, some do it as a full time job. There's so many ways DIY could go wrong, especially since anesthetics are controlled and require intravenous, intraperitoneal, or intracardial injections. Plus dogs are too different from humans in how they respond to drugs for me to guess if oral medications like opiates or GHB would give the intended effect or do something wild (I know opiates can have the opposite effect for cats), or what the proper dosage would be.

Dipping5122 said:

My 16 year-old-dog is on his last legs and will be checking out soon. I want to do it in the home that he knows and around the people he knows and loves. Is there something that I buy here that would help me provide him with that kind of farewell? He is about 34lbs.

Thanks in advance,

Dipping

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Please use a professional for this. The dog will not go out comfortably if you just give him a cocktail of drugs or even just a single drug, their bodies react differently then ours and are very aware. Save the trauma of the dog overdosing and having to see the symptoms of that. As the person above me said, there is people that offer in home euthanasia that can do it correctly.

Agreed with everyone. Unless you can live with yourself putting them down ol' yeller style, which I DO NOT recommend at all, chemicals are way too easy to f**k up and you're not a professional vet.

Call a mobile vet, I had it done as did others as you see (or have recommended at least). It's very common and iirc ~ $500 USD when I had to do it.

I wholly agree with everyone else, this is not something you do yourself if you love your dog. Have someone a professional come to your home where your dog is comfortable. But I also worry that this is a thinly veiled request for advice about getting mags for suicide.

sporidicus said:

I wholly agree with everyone else, this is not something you do yourself if you love your dog. Have someone a professional come to your home where your dog is comfortable. But I also worry that this is a thinly veiled request for advice about getting mags for suicide.

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Unfortunately, there's a whoooole other forum populated with thousands and thousands of accounts dedicated to such a thing. It's....well, it's depressing and awful all around. But, good point. One I didn't think of myself. OP, please whatever you do, if you see this - get help. Vet or Psych if sporidicus is anywhere close to on point with their last sentence.

Aarfgh said:

Unfortunately, there's a whoooole other forum populated with thousands and thousands of accounts dedicated to such a thing. It's....well, it's depressing and awful all around. But, good point. One I didn't think of myself. OP, please whatever you do, if you see this - get help. Vet or Psych if sporidicus is anywhere close to on point with their last sentence.

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I've seen that forum. It was disturbing and very sad to see. I understand people with terminal illnesses wanting to die with dignity, absolutely. My aunt was one of Dr. Kevorkian's patients. But people wanting to check out because they are depressed, like what recently became a thing in the Netherlands or whatever....I don't think that we should be reinforcing the idea that suicide is the answer to mental illness. Because it's not, and seeing people on those forums being so casually "supportive" of people wanting to go that route kind of really disturbs me.