NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/pets/4432

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: rec.pets
Subject: Re: Please save this adorable dog...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 26 Jan 93 03:51:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: iscsvax.1993Jan26.095111.10175
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Distribution: rec.pets
Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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In article <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]> writes:
>   Well, my thought is this.  Yes, to break trust is not exactly *right* but I
> sincerely believe that this vet probably does not do this often, and never for
> any other reason (such as to do experimentation on a pet to be put down, for
> example).  I think if I heard this story and the vet *had* put the healthy dog
> to sleep I would have been irate, and I would support the vet's decision to
> save the dog if I had heard about it before the decision was made.  I think
> that maybe the vet should have discussed it with the dog's owner (trying to
> pursuade them to take other courses) but if the owners refused, as there are
> some completely uncaring people out there, I think vets are not wrong in
> taking the matter into their own hands.  Legally, I don't know the implications
>  but morally, I think that's what's right.
> -=Kymberlie=-

You do have to give the couple SOME credit. At least they were humane about
their disposal of the dog. Four days after we moved to our new farm, a very
young PREGNANT cat (we think the father was her brother) that had a broken leg
and was starving to death, dragged herself to our door. Another such 'thrown
out the car window' refugee turned up a week later. We're waiting for the first
dog.

Brooke