I'm not really a pet person. I mean I'm good to any pets we've had, but I don't really get the whole family member thing. Sorry. Please don't BOO me. I went to pick up my dd from homeschool classes today. It is located in same plaza as a vet. I parked to wait. I saw this family with a German Shepherd. Mom, dad, and 3 teens. Looked like 2 boys around 16-20 and a girl maybe 15-16. Everybody was sobbing, even the boys. Nobody wanted to go in. I just knew they were there to put the dog to sleep. It looked very old. The boys were jerking with tears and hugging that dog. Probably one they had almost all of their lives. I watched that family walk in the vets office and I started sobbing myself. I just wanted to go hug them, but of course I would never intrude on a private family moment.
I'm 17 and when I was 15 we had to have my kitty who I had my entire life put to sleep and we had another one put to sleep when I was 8. Even when I was 8, I knew it was the right thing to do but it's still hard! 
I was there when they did it when I was 8, just because I wasn't old enough to stay home alone, but when I was 15 I just couldn't go.
