Many thanks to all for the support and wonderfull stories. I really appreciate them and the poems were just what I needed to get me through. My wife and I both said goodbye to Heidi yesterday afternoon stroking her gently through the whole process. We almost backed out of doing it but realized we were being sellfish and were forgetting about her pain. It was brutally hard but today I almost feel at peace with something, I don't know what, but I just feel a little better. Although when I woke this morning, took my leak, I headed for the garage to get her scoop of dogfood for breakfast, like I have for years. Again thank you for your thoughts and support. Have a wonderfull Christmas... I know Heidi will. I close my final post with a couple of pics of her taken yesterday. I thought some of you might feel an attachment to her somehow after reading this thread and would also like to say goodbye. The first one is her on the couch yesterday morning watching cartoons with my boy Zack. The second is with me in the front yard getting ready to go for our last drive, she was too gimpy to go on that last walk like I wanted.

Bless all of you!