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- From: klf@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (karen.l.fenton)
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- Subject: Re: Please! Help Save This Adorable Dog from Death!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.213519.22590@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:35:19 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.170110.22276@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan21.185514.23301@inel.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan21.185514.23301@inel.gov>, kkv@inel.gov (Jamie J Ferguson) writes:
- >
- > Some people really make me sick. My mom said her old vet was
- > examining some woman's cats one time and the woman mentioned
- > that she had had a cat put to sleep one time. The vet asked
- > why, and this woman said the cat kept going into heat and
- > was irritating. The vet asked why this person didn't get
- > her cat fixed, and the woman said she never thought of it.
- >
- > And people wonder why I give my money to animal charities...
- >
- >
- It's true that some people are scummy, but we don't always
- know the whole story. The poodle people (and maybe even this
- woman) may have had another situation they just weren't up to
- explaining.
-
- A close friend of mine took her 12 year old, ailing dog to her vet.
- The dog was blind (and becoming cranky as a result), and was ill
- with a variety of serious problems. The quality of his life was
- deterioriating and he was loaded with arthritis.
- My friend explained to the vet that she wanted the dog put down,
- it was time, and she wasn't able to deal with the care requirements
- any longer.
- The vet absolutely spazzed and castigated her with comments about
- the availability of medical options, the number of years of good
- times the dog had given her, 'and now you're tired or
- bored and you just want to dump the dog'...etc etc.
- What my friend wasn't able to bring herself to explain (in between
- insults) was that her husband was dying and between the two she just
- couldn't handle it. She had to be at the hospital all day&night, and there
- just wasn't anyone to step in. As the dog was in increasing pain, it
- seemed the right time to do this.
-
- Now maybe this is unusual, and the poodle people (and others) aren't
- in such a dificult situation...or maybe you agree with the vet.
- But dealing with overwhelming personal crisis can make you face up
- to hard decisions which you don't always feel capable of exploring with
- complete strangers. Unless I know better, I'd like to give people
- the benefit of the doubt. I have to say that anyone who would
- want a dog put gently to sleep rather than have to adjust to
- the confusion of a new home and new people after 5 years, and who would
- go to the trouble of grooming the dog beforehand, probably
- love their animal. It may be a little odd, but we each approach things
- in our own way.
-
- Karen
-