Dog Euthanasia

[YurtGirl]

Aloha fellow puna webbers. I've been doing exhaustive research on what to do about this heartbreaking time that is quickly coming up for me and Max, my best friend of almost 14 years. Max is a big, sharpei/lab mix, aka Scooby Doo. We've been together since he was just a tiny wrinkly pup, it's been a long and wonderful journey. But Max's problems have gotten progressively worse over the last couple years. The prednisone has quit helping his sore joints, glucosomine, baby asprin, etc., his immune system is weakened from a skin condition that we haven't been able to cure in spite of countless trips to our local vets. He started with incontinence several months ago and we try to let him know that it's okay, but he definitely feels bad about it when it happens, which it happens several times a week. We came back from visiting family after Christmas and I realized that he is pretty much completely blind now. It happened very suddenly. His time is nearing, fast. If I can, I will just try to keep him comfortable and hopefully he passes easily in his sleep. But if it takes another step or two past that and he is in major pain but can not pass on his own, then I want to be prepared.

I've called all the vets in the phone book and couldn't come up with anyone in our area that does house visits for euthanasia. Max is old, and he's stiff. Now he's blind. He doesn't like vet hospitals and I want to give him that last gift of letting him have the comfort and dignity to die at home, with me there comforting him. I'm SO frustrated at the lack of decent and sensible care here, for both humans AND animals. In my research I have even tried to find a way to do it ourselves, humanely of course, but there is no information to be found on the web except a bullet or the vet's office. This is crazy. There has to be another way. I'm not shooting him. And I'm not dragging him into a cold clinical office to be shaved and injected and laid on a cold table to die. Options please???!!! Not interested in awful stories, or more of the same info I've found online. Just names of people who can maybe help or effective, fast, painless measures that we can take that don't include a lot of blood, any pain, loud noises, stress for him or a failure stat. And if you're a PETA freak and want to chastise me for being inhuman because I want to save my friend from suffering, all I ask is that you live here and you share your name. Otherwise, take it somewhere else.
Peace to the rest of you, and Happy New Year~~