Speaker 1: All right, it's Mojo in the Morning Show. Anybody that
Speaker 1: has a pet that grows old with you knows it's
Speaker 1: the toughest thing. Ever, when you know that they're growing
Speaker 1: old is not going to be happening much longer. Shannon's
Speaker 1: been dealing with this on a couple of occasions with animals,
Speaker 1: because she's got a few of them. One is Wes's dog,
Speaker 1: which miraculously Wes's dog is still with us, and Lively pig.
Speaker 2: Willow our friends Toe.
Speaker 3: We were going to have to put her to sleep
Speaker 3: because she had a spine issue, and she came back
Speaker 3: from the dead Lazarus.
Speaker 2: But it was great, Yes.
Speaker 1: But with the dog you truly love, because the other
Speaker 1: dogs are whatever, But this was the dog that you
Speaker 1: kind of had your start with.
Speaker 4: Charlie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how old is Charlie?
Speaker 3: He is sixteen and a half. Sixteen and a half,
Speaker 3: I know. He's my little rider Die. I got him.
Speaker 3: If you've been listening to the show for a long time,
Speaker 3: you remember me crying on the air because I was
Speaker 3: so lonely. I had just moved back home to Detroit
Speaker 3: and I would come home every day to an empty house.
Speaker 3: And so I got this little fluffy black and white
Speaker 3: dog to keep me company. And it's been sixteen and
Speaker 3: a half years. I had Charlie before I had my husband's,
Speaker 3: my kids. Like, just yeah, he's been there for everything.
Speaker 1: But Charlie's lived through a lot relationships you had dated
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Actually, Charlie was there for you
Speaker 1: when you had an engagement ended.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean when I say ride or died. This dog,
Speaker 3: this dog knows it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he is.
Speaker 3: I can tell he's nearing the end and it is
Speaker 3: really really apparent. And it's hard because he still does
Speaker 3: a lot of things normal. He still eats, he still
Speaker 3: begs for treats, he's still like you know, princes around,
Speaker 3: although he's getting he's having a tougher time with that.
Speaker 3: And I have wood floors throughout my house, so he
Speaker 3: does this like Bambi thing a lot or his legs
Speaker 3: display and he gets stuck there and we kind of
Speaker 3: have to pick him up and kind of get him
Speaker 3: going again. The vet has told me he has really
Speaker 3: severe dementia because he paces all day and he cries
Speaker 3: a lot until we've had to give him some CBD
Speaker 3: to help with the anxiety and the dementia. He's been
Speaker 3: wearing a diaper for like a year or two, so
Speaker 3: it's nothing new for me to have to use that,
Speaker 3: but now more so than ever.
Speaker 2: He poops in the house too.
Speaker 3: He's just like a lot. I don't think you can
Speaker 3: see or hear well at this point. And so I've like,
Speaker 3: I've been having this discussion with Wes, like when do
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: That it's actually time?
Speaker 3: And I don't think I will ever be able to
Speaker 3: make that decision. I don't ever want to have to
Speaker 3: make that decision. And it's gotten to the point now
Speaker 3: where I wake up in the morning and he sleeps
Speaker 3: in a little bed next to my bed, and I
Speaker 3: just really hope that he has like died sleep because
Speaker 3: I don't want to go, Okay, today's the day that
Speaker 3: I have to take him to the vat, you know,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I still feel like this dog's got
Speaker 3: some time and.
Speaker 4: All aside from the dementia. Do you think he's like
Speaker 4: in pain.
Speaker 3: Because I know he has arthritis, like, but he's still,
Speaker 3: like I said, he still gets around, he goes up
Speaker 3: the stairs, he's you know, the vets like he's actually
Speaker 3: for his age, he's in really good shape, like he's
Speaker 3: got dimensionly, he's got arthritis whatever, But like there's you know.
Speaker 1: Can I say this though, that's I don't believe because
Speaker 1: they're all thats are about our bill. I feel I
Speaker 1: feel like there's a lot of cases they're like he's okay,
Speaker 1: everything's good, but it's quality of life. I think that
Speaker 1: at some point, you know, does Charlie want to be
Speaker 1: you know, walking around with a diaper on and having
Speaker 1: his legs go out from underneath him and bouncing into
Speaker 1: the walls like at some at some point and I
Speaker 1: know it's tough for you, but at some point it's
Speaker 1: almost humane for the dog. And just to say and
Speaker 1: it listen, I believe this. I believe this for also
Speaker 1: humans too. I hate to say this, but I think
Speaker 1: we as humans, you know, if we're that way, they
Speaker 1: put us in places called, you know, nursing home. You
Speaker 1: ever walk into a nursing home and said I want
Speaker 1: to live in this place?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And so I was talking to my friend Kristen, who
Speaker 3: works for henry Ford Health and she's becoming a friend
Speaker 3: of mine, and I was telling her about this. We
Speaker 3: went on like a hike the other day and she
Speaker 3: said she was in the same predicament with her dog,
Speaker 3: her older dog, and she finally said to her dog,
Speaker 3: please let me know when it is time for you, like,
Speaker 3: please give me a big sign to let me know
Speaker 3: that it is time, because she was in the same
Speaker 3: boat as me, and she said her dog stopped eating
Speaker 3: and she was like, okay, so I know that it
Speaker 3: is time. Like she felt at peace with making that decision.
Speaker 4: What kind of appetite is Charlie him?
Speaker 2: He still eats like a.
Speaker 1: He does normal, Okay, Because if that's the case, I agree,
Speaker 1: yeah a certain point, you know.
Speaker 4: That's the thing.
Speaker 3: And the diaper, by the way, the diaper we put
Speaker 3: on a because he's such an alpha and he was
Speaker 3: just like anywhere he smelled the other dog.
Speaker 2: This was like years ago when we first.
Speaker 4: Got b that just started having what's up tivity? How
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 5: Bye?
Speaker 6: So I started crying a little bit when I heard Shannon.
Speaker 7: I had a dog for eighteen years that I got
Speaker 7: as my graduation gift from high school actually, and she unfortunately,
Speaker 7: we had to put her down a week before I
Speaker 7: gave birth to my daughter. And it was probably the
Speaker 7: hardest thing.
Speaker 5: I've ever done because she was with me all like my.
Speaker 6: Growing up life, through relationships, through college, through you know,
Speaker 6: three engagements, through my son being born.
Speaker 5: And I was already.
Speaker 6: Emotional because I was heavily pregnant, but doing that because
Speaker 6: she was like my first baby, like baby baby, It
Speaker 6: was really really, really tough.
Speaker 5: But she looked at me and I knew it was
Speaker 5: one of those books like Shannon was say and her
Speaker 5: friend like that, like, just give me a sign.
Speaker 6: My dog her name was Barbie.
Speaker 5: And I said, if you need to go, just let mommy.
Speaker 8: Know, and she gave me this look and I told
Speaker 8: my mom, I said time. But I mean I had
Speaker 8: the best memories with her, and as much as I
Speaker 8: wanted my daughter to meet her, I knew it was
Speaker 8: the right decision.
Speaker 4: So wow, that's hard. And how long ago was this
Speaker 4: that you had to do this?
Speaker 6: My daughter is just hehrm four.
Speaker 4: Tough.
Speaker 1: Isn't it wild that that we mourn and cry in
Speaker 1: our family? We did this way more than when my
Speaker 1: dad passed, Like my dad meant a lot to my boys.
Speaker 1: I know that I'm not taking that away, and he
Speaker 1: meant obviously a lot to me and Chelsea, but we,
Speaker 1: like Lily was, it was devastated.
Speaker 2: Did you guys have to put Lily downright, we did.
Speaker 4: Lily had.
Speaker 1: Lily had such bad cancer that if we didn't, it
Speaker 1: was just going to cause for her to have more
Speaker 1: and more pain and she could bleed out and stuff.
Speaker 1: So it was you know, that was one thing I
Speaker 1: will say about our vet that we go to some bets.
Speaker 1: The vet that we went to at that time was
Speaker 1: just like, guys, what do you you know you got
Speaker 1: to make that call. Some bets though, I swear to you,
Speaker 1: I think that they sometimes just want to hold onto
Speaker 1: a bill.
Speaker 3: I really do see my vet. I feel like he's
Speaker 3: very He's not a fact. Yeah, he doesn't a sugarcoat.
Speaker 3: What's anything?
Speaker 4: What's up? Lexi?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 9: How are you guys?
Speaker 1: We're doing okay. Poor Shannon's over here crying and stuff
Speaker 1: and getting emotional. Our last caller too, is very emotional.
Speaker 1: But how are you doing?
Speaker 10: But I'm doing good.
Speaker 11: I just have a comment that you know makes me
Speaker 11: emotional too.
Speaker 10: These dogs, all they give you is love for years
Speaker 10: and years, and I always say.
Speaker 12: The best thing you can do is let them go
Speaker 12: on a good day. My childhood dog was fine, fine, fine,
Speaker 12: up until she was about fourteen. The night before she
Speaker 12: was acting fine, and unfortunately I did. I don't want
Speaker 12: to see your monger.
Speaker 10: But you wake up and with the seizures and all
Speaker 10: of that, at the end of the day, there's still animals,
Speaker 10: and unfortunately things do happen, and sometimes it's best for
Speaker 10: you and other people to let them go on a
Speaker 10: good day. You know, they gave us everything, and it's
Speaker 10: hard for us to make that decision. You know, it's
Speaker 10: an impossible decision. But versus giving yourself a situation that
Speaker 10: you know might traumatize you in a way, you know,
Speaker 10: I guess that's kind of my.
Speaker 11: Point of it all. Where how do you make that
Speaker 11: impossible decision?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's where I am right now.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I feel like I need to give him
Speaker 3: the pep talk that my friend Kristen told me to
Speaker 3: give him, of like, let me know when it's time.
Speaker 10: I will.
Speaker 2: I will not make that decision.
Speaker 1: Well, in that collar, you said to the first collar,
Speaker 1: when the dog gave a look to that color, what's up, Jacqueline?
Speaker 3: Bye?
Speaker 5: Good morning, God good.
Speaker 9: I'm so sorry. I dogs through my life. I have
Speaker 9: four right now. I've rescue plenty of seniors, put down
Speaker 9: plenty of them. Unfortunately. But my last dog, he was
Speaker 9: a shelty and he had really bad our stortation. He
Speaker 9: struggled on the hardwood floors as well. But I got
Speaker 9: him little doggy grippy socks and they helped him so much.
Speaker 9: Like you can just how I put those on. He
Speaker 9: was walking around, strutting around, and it was just wonderful.
Speaker 9: And I mean he wore those up until we decided
Speaker 9: that it was time. So I highly recommend getting those
Speaker 9: are to talk amazon.
Speaker 1: They're super I'm looking right now, isn't it funny? He's
Speaker 1: gonna look like he's gonna look like the old man.
Speaker 2: I don't care. That would be very helpful.
Speaker 9: Little actually my other Golden too when she passed away.
Speaker 9: That helped her. But Clap of Love and Home just
Speaker 9: in Asia was probably one of the most beautiful things
Speaker 9: I've ever done.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something moment.
Speaker 3: I know all about lap Belove because that's who we
Speaker 3: hired to come for Willow And an hour and a
Speaker 3: half before the fat was going to come, she got up.
Speaker 4: She she.
Speaker 1: Was like, yeah, yeah, I don't want it to We
Speaker 1: took Lily to that whatever the emergency doctor that they had,
Speaker 1: the emergency vet because I didn't want it to be
Speaker 1: that we have to sit there and walk by the
Speaker 1: spot that Lily died, Like you know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll do it in.
Speaker 4: Lily's area or dog and I'm like, that's our living room.
Speaker 3: Every day we go look at the living room and
Speaker 3: talking to me about okay, like we need to have
Speaker 3: a plan, and I'm like, I don't even want to
Speaker 3: talk about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, don't make me sure it's.
Speaker 1: Funny with a willow. You're like, kill the damn thing. No,
Speaker 1: that was not my discussion. Let the willow run on
Speaker 1: the streets. And Shannon was like, literally, off, my is Caim.
Speaker 4: Are you there, Kim?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 11: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kim, this is a horrible topic to have for
Speaker 1: you coming up this morning after what happened to you
Speaker 1: on Tuesday.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I just wanted to tell Shannon I completely understand. I
Speaker 11: lost my twenty year old cat on Tuesday, and you know,
Speaker 11: they're just a part of your family and every one
Speaker 11: of those seasons that you go through and you remember
Speaker 11: and they can't laid next to me while I was
Speaker 11: in chemo, he laid next to me and I was
Speaker 11: going through breakups. He was like my ride and die
Speaker 11: for everything. And we also lost our cabapoo back and
Speaker 11: things like Thanksgiving time frame, so that the worst scenario.
Speaker 11: But what I wanted to say to Shannon is he
Speaker 11: was perfectly fine until two days before and then it
Speaker 11: was like he absolutely pulled us.
Speaker 4: It was time.
Speaker 11: And I spent the day just holding him in the
Speaker 11: sun all day and giving him all his little special treats.
Speaker 11: And it's horrific the day after, right, because all the
Speaker 11: routines you're used to and getting up and feeding them
Speaker 11: and letting them out and doing all that, but they're
Speaker 11: at peace, right. You have to just know that they.
Speaker 5: Need to have that peace in their life too.
Speaker 11: So I'm so sorry you're going.
Speaker 1: To this, Kim. I want you to know that we're
Speaker 1: very sorry for your cat. But Shannon doesn't care because
Speaker 1: she hates cats.
Speaker 2: I hate the ID. I'm not a cat fan.
Speaker 4: She's basically like, oh good, another dead cat.
Speaker 1: I mean I was like, now the Kavapoo, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: he's just a little fair. How are you doing, By
Speaker 1: the way, I'm thinking of you. You said you went
Speaker 1: through chemo. Are you feeling okay?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 11: Actually it was It's funny. I'm on my way to
Speaker 11: a doctor's appointment at Michigan Medicine. Yeah, and I am
Speaker 11: fourteen years out from breast cancer and I'm actually going
Speaker 11: to have my implants chucked because they've been in too long.
Speaker 11: I kind of laughed and said, what, you did not
Speaker 11: expect me to live this long? So now I'm finally
Speaker 11: going back to get that chucked. But yes, Michigan Medicine
Speaker 11: saved my life.
Speaker 4: To love you, Kim, Thank you for I appreciate you