[BeksTeene]

at some point most of us will have to make a similar calculus, as heart-wrenching as it may be. I love my dog like crazy but at the end of the day - she's a dog. If fixing her up like that would bankrupt me, then I can't do it. And even if I can afford it, I want to be damn sure that it's going to improve her quality of life before I put her through something so traumatic. I'd rather she have a few final wonderful and happy days than put her through that only to be the first of a lifetime of surgeries or pain and suffering.