To Euthanize an Animal in Front of Another Animal
Is it inhumane to euthanize an animal in front of another animal especially in an animal shelter where there is already plenty of stress and emotional distress.
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Senior British politician says that her family was so poor that they had to kill their cats
I am surprised by this story. I have held back writing about it but it keeps popping up. Emily Thornberry is a senior Labour politician in the UK. She said that her background was very poor. This is because her father abandoned the family unannounced when she was seven years old. Her mother had …
Greenville: Justifying the euthanasia of a cat within 72 hour holding period
Greenville Animal Protective Services have justified the killing of a cat within the 72-hour holding period. Midnight was a cat who escaped from his home on August 31st. He was returned to his family in a bag a few days later by Greenville Animal Protective Services. It is argued that Midnight was euthanized too …
Family asked their veterinarian to kill their cat because he had fleas
Yes, it sounds unbelievable but a family took their three-year-old, well-behaved, black cat to their veterinary clinic and asked the vet to kill him (euthanize is the wrong word) because he had fleas. Yes, I am as shocked as anybody else. It happened in Britain, a country where there are meant to be lots …
Convenience Euthanasia
People like to hide behind language when discussing the death of a pet which is why so often the word “euthanasia” actually means “to kill”. The phrase “convenience euthanasia” means to kill a healthy pet on the request of the pet’s owner. The online version of the Telegraph newspaper in August 2016 reported that, …
Police kill tourist’s cat brought into Iceland Illegally
This appears to be a brutal tale of unnecessary cat killing by the authorities but correct me if am wrong. Why did an Icelandic veterinarian have to kill a domestic cat brought into Iceland illegally? All they had to do was isolate the cat – place the cat in long term quarantine – to …
Why don’t we euthanize humans when we euthanise cats?
Without seeing a survey, I have an impression that the majority of people would like to see laws which allow humans to end their lives in a compassionate and dignified manner when the circumstances demand it. There are many chronic diseases which kill people slowly in an unpleasant way. A person suffering from such …
Microchip Would Have Saved This Elderly Cat Put down by Veterinarians Incorrectly
This is a UK story. The story concerns a tabby cat who was nearly 20 years of age. He went wandering outside which is typical in the UK. Some students picked him up, they fed him and say that he looked well. They handed the old boy to a local veterinarian in New Dover …
