Originally Posted by
montanaskier
wicked hard decision....no idea what I should do. Dakota is a 16 year old malamute. She has some nerve issues we think in her back that causes her not to be able to stand or walk very well. When she does walk she walks on her back left knuckle quite a bit. She doesn't do much of anything anymore. Lays around the house or lays outside on the patio. We can't really go on walks, though I will take her across the driveway to the park, she typically pees and goes right back to the house. She has a really hard time standing up by herself. She slides on the hardwood floors alot and ends up kind of sliding/falling down and requires us to pick her up. She is still very lucent. She knows who we are and is still mentally pretty ok. Her voice is gone, she can't make noise anymore. She poops in the house as once she's down she has a hard time standing up and will just go. I don't think she can feel when she has to go anymore until the very last second. We gave her a steroid shot last week and that helped some but some of hte issues above are still there maybe just about 15% better than they were. She is on a medicine twice a week that keeps her from leaking urine. She also has developed a little tumor like growth above one eye that seems to be getting bigger and causes lots of irritation in that eye. She has never been a big eater but really seems to not eat very much lately and is only around 60lbs now...she's never been a super big Mal. I want to do what's best for her and it's probably saying goodbye but her being still mentally sharp makes it tough....really tough. No idea what the right thing to do is at this point.
