Any of you guys go to the doctor regularly? I don't wanna go. :(

CletusJones said:
Disagree. The animal cannot tell you when it's in pain and/or suffering. Assuming the dose of medication you're administering takes care of the issue is irresponsible. If a pet contracts a terminal disease it is better to end their suffering ASAP, not anthropomorphize them and subject them to a slow agonizing death like we do to humans with terminal illnesses.
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When his limp disappears and he acts young and energetic, the meds are working. When he limps and struggles to lay down, the meds have worn off. It's pretty simple so far. But if you think I'm going to kill my dog right before Christmas out of some sense of moralistic responsibility, you're kidding yourself.
 
Sarcasmo said:
When his limp disappears and he acts young and energetic, the meds are working. When he limps and struggles to lay down, the meds have worn off. It's pretty simple so far. But if you think I'm going to kill my dog right before Christmas out of some sense of moralistic responsibility, you're kidding yourself.
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i waited until it was 'time'...she went soooo peacefully and we had a great extra 2 1/2 years by monitoring her...

now i have a female choc lab that will be 4 months old on friday...she's not a replacement - but i swear my previous dog helped me find her (for many reasons - one of which is just spooky) but i digress...
 
Domon said:
just because they cant talk, doesnt mean you cant tell. Animals cry out in pain like everything else, or flinch when you touch a painful spot, etc.
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Not the same.
Duke said:
But ending their suffering in this manner is actually enabling the anthropomorphization that you are against.

Let things die as they die. Mercy killings should only apply if there is a grevious wound and the end is within minutes, hours on the outside. Like, say, if you were disembowled by a puma and it ate half your entrails yet still you live kind of thing.

Even then, that one dude in hong kong... cut right in half. Left on the street to bleed out. Still alive this day....
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I get what you're saying but I would rather mercy kill than watch something suffer or attempt to medicate it better if it could not tell me how it felt. Maybe this is anthropomorphizing them anyways but I feel better knowing they are not suffering from a terminal illness/injury.
 
Sarcasmo said:
When his limp disappears and he acts young and energetic, the meds are working. When he limps and struggles to lay down, the meds have worn off. It's pretty simple so far. But if you think I'm going to kill my dog right before Christmas out of some sense of moralistic responsibility, you're kidding yourself.
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Not advocating putting your dog down today, I'm just saying it should be the option when the animal is suffering.

I grew up with animals (we only had dogs) treated as service tools so my view may be slightly skewed. The dog was a hunting tool first and foremost, if anything prevented this, time to go.
 
Coqui said:
I can understand that, but I also ended up watching my sister-in-law's cat suffer a siezure and die simply because she was thinking the same way.
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My seizure wasn't any sort of suffering. I remember zilch.

I've had one and now I'm an expert. :lol:
 
Haywood Jablome said:
i waited until it was 'time'...she went soooo peacefully and we had a great extra 2 1/2 years by monitoring her...

now i have a female choc lab that will be 4 months old on friday...she's not a replacement - but i swear my previous dog helped me find her (for many reasons - one of which is just spooky) but i digress...
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I wanna hear the spooky
 
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