Mae has a little dog that she has had for a very long time. He is a little lap dog, a pomeranian. Cute and loveable ascan be. He is old and sick now. He is in congestive heart failure and has been that way for about a year or so. He is on medication as well. Twice a day for his heart problems. Another ailment that he has is a cough. The cough is something that his type of breed has. His windpipe collapses when he gets excited or over exerts himself so all day long he is panting and coughing. Mae can’t stand the coughing. She does not want to hear it. Why? Because it is a cough with a little gag at the end.
We have taken the dog to the vet over and over and it has been explained to her that there is little that can be done. The cough is something his breed just has and he is on cough syrup to try to help. Twice in the past year Mae has said that she wants to have the dog put to sleep just because she does not want to hear anymore coughing. The dog is not suffering and is in good health given his condition. He is happy and perky and jumps around and is fine. He just has a cough when he gets excited. Is that a reason to have the dog put to sleep? In my book, no! If the dog were actually suffering that would be a different story. It would be time to put him down. I personally do not believe that the vet would agree to put an animal down if he was not ready. Would they? Just because the owner did not want the dog anymore?
The times we have taken the dog to the vet that was the purpose Mae had in mind. The vet kept looking at me and I could tell that she understood that Mae simply wanted to have the dog killed just because she did not want it anymore. Today when I woke up again it was the same thing.
“I have come to a decision. He has to be suffering. He does not feel good. I know it. I can’t take the coughing. He needs to be put down. ” I said nothing for several reasons. Now I am her only transportation and she can’t get him to the office on her own. She can’t drive safely. Plus she has given me that ultimatum to leave and if so I want to take him with me.
That will pose another problem. Anything that she has, even if she does not want it, she makes sure I do not have access to. SHe would rather the dog be killed that give it to me. We have had this situation before with pets in the past. She had a cat she adopted the same time as she adopted this dog Tiny and she decided she did not want the cat. I wanted the cat becasue she had given it to me for about a month or so. Then for some reason she got mad and wanted the cat back so she could give it away. The cat was already a part of our family and I refused to give her back. I kept her for 9 years. That was always a bone of contention. Her cat that she never wanted and simply wanted back to send to the animal shelter, most likely to be put asleep. I was not having it.
Mae has a history of getting rid of all of our pets. When I was a child it was done to hurt me. Any animal that I grew to love she would get rid of. Over and over again it happened. I think it is the way with Tiny. Even thought he is sick, he knows who loves him. I do. Mae talks mean to him, never pets him and yells constantly at him to stop coughing. She barely gives him his medication and recently has been asking me to do it. I think that she is not giving it to him correctly to hasten his demise. He is to never miss a dose, yet when she tells me to give it to him, she often says, I did not give him any in the morning. I have offered to give him all his medication morning and night and she always refuses.
He has a cough and has cough syrup. She says it is too hard to give it to him with the syringe. He is not being properly medicated by her, according to the vet’s instructions. Tiny sleeps with me and she gets upset with that. He will not go anywhere near her room to sleep. She accuses me now of locking him in my room so that he can’t get out. That is not the case. The door is always cracked so that he can have access to his water in the kitchen.
Tiny is a happy but sick little dog. He has many more years left in good health if he would just get the medication the way he is supposed to. I really think that Mae is not giving it to him so that he can get sick and would appear to be on his last legs she she takes him to the vet. I have never seen anyone so narcissistic in all my life. Why treat a defenseless dog like that? It is just not right. I am doing all within my power to stay on top of his medication to be sure he gets it and to give him the cough syrup. I just hope that one day when I come home he is not gone.
The Golden Days of Mae 