It's called Pawspice, and it's a type of hospice care for animals. Cancer is not an automatic death sentence. By treating the animal's pain, Villalobos said one in eight of the pets she treats live into the next year, and one out of every four pets lives its natural life span, according to the article. Arnold said she would readily use Pawspice if her dog were to become terminally ill. One thing she would never consider, though, is giving her dog chemotherapy or putting her through other medical procedures when there is no hope for recovery or improving her quality of life.
Humans can give consent.
But with animals, they don't understand what is happening to them. They don't understand why they are hurting, why their owner lets doctors stick needles in them or why their hair falls out after having chemotherapy. Arnold said the best thing to do for pets is to comfort them until they can no longer be comforted, and then euthanize them. She said if the medical profession could adopt this principle and relate it to humans, we would all be better off. Over 80 percent of humans die in the hospital and most of them die in pain.