We had to put one of our two dogs “to sleep” yesterday. What a dishonest phrase. We euthanized her, and it broke our hearts. It was unexpected, and I still don’t know whether that made it worse or saved us some pain. Without burdening anyone reading this with all the details, she got sick suddenly, we took her to the vet, and they found she had swallowed part of a cloth toy, which had never happened in her eleven years. …