When to Put Your Dog Down Quiz
Understand your dog’s comfort and daily function in about 10 minutes. Free 15 question check with no sign up that organizes observations to discuss with your vet and flags urgent warning signs.
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BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Basic Needs and Daily Function (BNaDF)
Basic Needs and Daily Function (BNaDF)
Average
5.6
Normal range
3.6 — 7.7
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15
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Engagement and Overall Trajectory (EaOT)
Engagement and Overall Trajectory (EaOT)
Average
6.7
Normal range
4.1 — 9.2
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0
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15
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Physical Comfort and Distress (PCaD)
Physical Comfort and Distress (PCaD)
Average
10
Normal range
7.2 — 12.8
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0
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15
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Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS
Example Questions From the Test
- Care is brief or well tolerated and leaves ample time for rest, comfort, and valued activities.
- Some parts are unpleasant, but distress is short and my dog returns to comfortable activities.
- Appointments, procedures, handling, or side effects consume much of their comfortable time or cause recurring distress.
- Necessary care causes extreme or sustained distress, and the veterinarian has not identified a tolerable way to provide meaningful relief.
- They can eliminate with their usual routine and remain reasonably clean and comfortable.
- Occasional accidents or added assistance are needed, but cleanup and repositioning prevent ongoing distress.
- Frequent accidents, straining, constipation, diarrhea, or soiling repeatedly leaves them uncomfortable despite care.
- They cannot pass urine, have severe repeated straining, or remain continuously soiled with skin injury or major distress.
- I have not observed any of these events.
- There was one brief unusual episode, already shared with the veterinarian, and my dog returned fully to their usual state.
- Episodes have recurred, recovery takes longer, or disorientation meaningfully disrupts daily life.
- There was a prolonged seizure, repeated seizures without recovery, collapse, unresponsiveness, or another active crisis.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES
About This Assessment
When to Put Your Dog Down Quiz - Symptoms and Signs
This free quality-of-life check helps you organize observations about your dog’s comfort, basic functioning, engagement, and recent pattern before speaking with a veterinarian. It cannot determine whether or when euthanasia is appropriate, and its score bands are unvalidated reflective summaries—not medical cutoffs. Seek urgent veterinary help now for struggling to breathe, collapse, prolonged or repeated seizures, uncontrolled bleeding, severe distress, or inability to urinate. No sign-up is needed.
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