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Less than two weeks ago, we had our cat, Peregrine, euthanized. He was 19. He had kidney disease which eventually caused blindness which was really distressing for him. My 12-year-old son cried and got over it. My friends were all sympathetic at first, but are now hinting that it's time to move on a...

You made the right decision. It always feels wrong to take someone's life, but she was definitely suffering, it would only have gotten worse, and she'd have died anyway. The choice wasn't, "Do I end her life or not?" It was, "Do I allow her to suffer a long, humiliating, and frighteni...