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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 738185" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>Nomad,you had every right to expect your healthy old dog to be fine. We board our boy Mac quite often! He was boarded for 10 days in March, another 10 in June. We were going places that we couldn't take him and it never once occurred to me his health could suffer boarding him at the vet where he goes for his health care! We can't leave him home, because he is crate-trained. He has to be with people. We don't have friends that would watch him. He's blind and (although we only discovered this after the last boarding) mostly deaf and needs medication given. We used to board him and Suzie together, but now it's just him. Other than a general "Gosh I hate to have to leave him", we never thought twice about it. </p><p></p><p>A person does not stop living their lives because they have pets - or for that matter, children, or even elderly parents that live with you...and as much as you love them, there are occasions you need to go somewhere - or want to go somewhere - and you can't take them. So you find a place for them to stay until you get back. Granted, with humans that's usually relatives, but the concept is the same. I had a friend who's father would go to a nursing home when she would travel. He actually didn't mind a bit and had suggested it the first time she wanted to go somewhere. The only difference is a dog can't come to the phone.</p><p></p><p>You loved your dear dog. You wanted what was best. You would never have boarded her if you thought there was danger to her. None of this is on you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 738185, member: 17309"] Nomad,you had every right to expect your healthy old dog to be fine. We board our boy Mac quite often! He was boarded for 10 days in March, another 10 in June. We were going places that we couldn't take him and it never once occurred to me his health could suffer boarding him at the vet where he goes for his health care! We can't leave him home, because he is crate-trained. He has to be with people. We don't have friends that would watch him. He's blind and (although we only discovered this after the last boarding) mostly deaf and needs medication given. We used to board him and Suzie together, but now it's just him. Other than a general "Gosh I hate to have to leave him", we never thought twice about it. A person does not stop living their lives because they have pets - or for that matter, children, or even elderly parents that live with you...and as much as you love them, there are occasions you need to go somewhere - or want to go somewhere - and you can't take them. So you find a place for them to stay until you get back. Granted, with humans that's usually relatives, but the concept is the same. I had a friend who's father would go to a nursing home when she would travel. He actually didn't mind a bit and had suggested it the first time she wanted to go somewhere. The only difference is a dog can't come to the phone. You loved your dear dog. You wanted what was best. You would never have boarded her if you thought there was danger to her. None of this is on you. [/QUOTE]
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