This is my first post here. So, I'm a rookie.
My dog Sadie has reached the point where her hind legs no longer work for her. I'm not very good at construction, and I would not know how to build her a wheelchair, but I notice that a place in the USA makes dog wheelchairs, such that for about $500 USD [including shipping], I could buy her a wheelchair to support her hind legs. I've seen someone in the neighbourhood walk his dog with this sort of device.
Clearly my dog likes to live, and normally she suffers through a long flight of stairs every morning to be greeted at my bedside so that she can annoy me when I'm getting dressed, and come crashing down the stairs barking her brains out to get breakfast. It's extremely annoying, but then again, she has an IQ of less than 12.
By the standards of the Mustdashians here, Sadie doesn't really add to my happiness much, in fact, her aggressiveness and barking can be extremely annoying, but she can be sweet after you have fed her and she chills out. But sadly today, I even to carry her outside onto my deck, and she was crawling in the snow on her chest and pooped that way. There is a fist sized tumour on her chest, but it's not malignant. At one point I had it surgically removed which cost quite a bit, but somehow it grew back. [that's another problem waiting to happen]
Should I bite the bullet and import this doggie wheelchair, or should I pay to euthanize her, cry my brains out and suck it up? I'm not very far along in my Mustdashian ways yet, although I understand the concepts very well. I came from a family such that my mom suffered a lifetime of disability with MS, so my Dad became a sort of superman, and could easily have built a doggie wheelchair, but my skills never seemed to go in that direction. Should I just accept my limitations and buy commercially, or is the whole idea folly?