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For some background, my dog is a White German Shepherd, not gonna say her name for anonymity reasons. She's about seven years old now, fairly good health besides glaucoma. With this, the fluid pressure in her eyes builds which causes pain, and she's slowly lost her vision. About two years ago the vet informed us she'd eventually have to have her eyes removed so she wouldn't be living in pain, and we all seemed to agree that'd be the way to go.

Come yesterday, my mom calls me and informs me that we have to decide between putting the dog down and going through with the surgery. To my surprise, she strongly wants to put the dog down. The dog has needed the surgery for awhile now, but my mom kept putting it off as she couldn't stand the thought of the dog not having eyes. I've been far away at uni for the past four years, and she hasn't been in too much noticeable pain, so it was kinda just a "this doesn't need to be immediately addressed, I'll cross that bridge when I get there" type of thing.

My mom's main reasons for wanting to put the dog down are 1. She is now alone at home as my brother is also at school, albeit about five minutes from home, and 2. The surgery is too expensive. For point 1, I kinda see her point of view, as she did become the primary caretaker of the dog once I left for school, and has also footed the bill for vets visits, food, and medicine. As for the surgery being too expensive, I'm baffled - we're solidly upper-middle class at this point, I've seen her drop $2k on lamps. A $3k surgery isn't cheap, but it's nowhere near unmanageable.

I can't really wrap my head around wanting to put the dog down when the surgery would be minimal and immediately improve her quality of life, things I learned after calling and discussing with the vet. I'm even willing to come back home over a break or long weekend/skip a week or two of class in order to handle the surgery and immediate recovery care, and foot the bill.

Over several phone conversations where I tried to lay this out, my mom essentially just got more and more accusatory, claiming I'm not grateful for all she's done for me, it's not fair that she's had to care for the dog all by herself, she's so busy and stressed from work, breaking down crying, etc.

At this point she's agreed to let me schedule the surgery, and depending on the timeline I will be heading home to deal with immediate recovery care. After graduation in June I'll also be taking the dog with me, which was the plan anyway. In my eyes my mom’s view is basically "this surgery is kinda difficult, so let's just put the dog down" which I'm appalled by. I'm also furious that I've had to take everything into my own hands and fight her on this, when I'm the furthest from home and least able to help at the current moment (brother is non-committal about helping care for the dog). Am I just overreacting?

not wanting to put my dog down