re: A time to die.
A very hard thing to do. Someday, I will have to do that for my own dog, and I think about it now and then. Bowser pointed out that dogs have short lives, and that this is their only fault. Someone once told me that God arranged it that way because, however hard it may be, a human can deal with the death of a dog much more easily than a dog can deal with the death of their master or mistress. Don't know if that's true or not.