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Dr. Cheryl’s journey throughout life has helped shape how she interacts with animals and people.

Dr. Cheryl Ramos has been providing caring home euthanasia services for over a decade. Each family she helps care for leaves her with experiences that continue to shape her behavior and desire to help people in their time of need.

Dr. Cheryl Ramos is a UC Davis College of Veterinary Medicine graduate and a native Californian. After graduating from UC Davis, she moved to Florida to train with veterinary specialists during a one-year internship program. She returned home to the East Bay Area and worked as an emergency and critical care veterinarian for more than 10 years.

Dr. Cheryl Ramos is also certified in Jikiden Reiki. Dr. Ramos became interested in energy healing modalities after hearing multiple pet parents express they themselves or their child had the same medical condition as their animal family member.

Our animals are cherished members of the family. Our animal family members impact our relationships and help us to define the quality and style of our lives. Because of these close bonds, euthanasia can be one of the most difficult decisions to make in our lifetime, but it can also be one of the most compassionate.

The decision to euthanize can be a consuming and exhaustive emotional process. You may experience many different feelings ranging from guilt, sorrow, anger, or frustration to name only a few. One day you may feel it is time to say good-bye, whereas on another day you may not. In addition, some family members may feel it is time to say good-bye where others disagree. These situations can result in conflict and heightened stress and anxiety for the entire family, including our animal family members. I believe our stress, fear, and anxiety has an even greater negative impact on our animal family members due to their high level of sensitivity. I believe our animals want to take care of us and bring us joy, so when we are upset it disrupts their natural state of being. As a result, they unnecessarily expend additional energy in an already energy-depleted body which further negatively impacts their quality of life.

Understanding from friends, counselors, family and veterinary professionals can help guide you during the euthanasia decision making process.

Dr. Ramos, (Cheryl), at Pets Eternal Rest can help support you not only through this process but can help YOU support your animal. For more information please contact Dr. Ramos at 925-408-5112.

Preplanning allows families to take time in advance to understand the process and timing of euthanasia services, explore options and have questions answered. In addition, pre-planning will not only help determine what your animal’s needs are but what needs you have too.

We typically grieve far in advance to the decision to euthanize. Each family member including our animal family members have their own unique grieving process. In addition to understanding each individual has their own process, it is extremely beneficial to recognize your feelings from others and not comingle them. If you can identify and separate your feelings from others you can be empowered to transform them if desired. Once undesired feelings are recognized they can be transformed to allow for a more positive experience for yourself, your family and especially for your ill animal. Our actions and I believe our thoughts affect our animals to a great degree. For this reason, I feel it is not only important to be mentally aware of what we are thinking and feeling but be open to changing our thoughts in order to better support and improve our entire family’s wellbeing.