{"id":149,"date":"2012-06-27T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/i-killed-my-dog-today\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:23:16","slug":"i-killed-my-dog-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/i-killed-my-dog-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I killed my dog today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-F-WVwP3f2Vc\/T-uQ9S6tpyI\/AAAAAAAAAVI\/rLqW8JdAjIw\/s1600\/IMG-20120627-02397.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG-20120627-02397.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/320;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A while ago, I posted that Xena had cancer.  The vet sent me home with steroids and tramadol, a pain killer. Gradually, she needed more and more pain killer until today, when something got much worse overnight and she could barely walk at all.<\/p>\n<p>I called the vet to ask how much it would cost to get a housecall and then I started calling for cabs that would take a dog.  I wish I could say something nice or reassuring about her death.  I showed up at the vet&#8217;s office and they were running more than an hour behind, so Xena lay in the middle of the waiting room floor and looked around nervously. Then she limped around with me to a back room, where she was frightened and hurting.  She lay down on a blanket they put out. The vet shaved a section of her leg to give her a shot. She sniffed my eyes where I was crying as he pushed in the injection and just collapsed her head down and had stopped breathing within a moment.<\/p>\n<p>He said she felt no pain, but how would he know that?<\/p>\n<p>I took her collar off and her head flopped easily in my hands. Her body was still warm, her ears still soft, her eyes still open.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had done it before she got that bad. I wish I hadn&#8217;t had to do it at all.  It doesn&#8217;t matter what I wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I posted that Xena had cancer. The vet sent me home with steroids and tramadol, a pain killer. Gradually, she needed more and more pain killer until today, when something got much worse overnight and she could barely walk at all. I called the vet to ask how much it would cost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/i-killed-my-dog-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I killed my dog today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,103,107,108],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-death","tag-dog","tag-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}