Chemo is fucking awful. Had a gf survive breast cancer (before we met) and the thing traumatized her so much it came up in conversation several times a day, years after the fact. Mom just died of breast cancer. All chemo did was steal the last 2-months of her life.

Want to put your pet through that? For what will likely mean them dying miserably anyway?

Here's some more info, too fucking depressing to really read top to bottom:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6681408

Seriously weird thing to bring up in an article regarding inflation and spending. Tacky at best. The author must have suffered something to have put that in there. The editor should have yanked it for sounding callous.

tl;dr: I see it as an ethical decision, not a financial one.

Actually, I stopped to think it over. I might have to agree, depending on how much the dog would feel like shit vs the likelihood of a full recovery and also depending on the age.

The dog doesn't have a say in the treatment, nor an explanation of what's happening. If the vet and I discussed and determined that the outcome might be cruel for not much hope of gain, I'd make a plan with the vet to let my pal suffer the least amount possible.

This is far from a blanket endorsement to euthanize dogs with cancer, which should go without sayin.