God, I hate to ask this. We have a black lab for 14yrs now. She is so wonderful. She is getting up in her age and now has become deaf and the vet told us that she has an enlarged heart. She was on heart medications, but her being on that made her very slugglish and not eating well. We switched her meds, and same thing. The vet told us that we are real lucky to have her and two years ago he said to us, that we didn't have much more time with her.
She is now having a difficult time getting up the deck stairs which she needs to access the back yard. She constantly coughs due to enlarged heart, keeping us up at night. No heartworms.
I want to hold on to her as long as possible.
But, the question is, I don't know if she is in pain, or unhappy with life now. She wags her tail, and tries to play ball, but she can't and I think she is getting depressed about it.
Any other meds or suggestions? We love her dearly, but don't want to see her suffer.
2007-06-20
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