Generally I agree.
The main thing is that this is the kind of thing that truly makes one circumspect of this person. She is crazy and potentially dangerous. She did not get the vet to do it nicely, but did some nasty thing as well as just selfish. Whether it is worth $25k is questionable, but it is disconcerting, regardless.
Even the most practical people regarding animals would be squeamish and a bit alarmed by her approach here.
She appears to be obsessive. Dangerous to humans? No evidence.
Clearly, she doesn’t love her animals enough to wish them to live a full life.
But, once again, I have to ask - what makes the behavior criminal? She did not starve the dog to death. She did not withdraw water from it. It was legally her dog.
Her methodology is far beneath any I would choose, if forced to do so. But I still don’t understand what made the act criminal.
>She did not get the vet to do it nicely<
The veterinarian refused. There needs to be some blame, here, on his or her part. The dog would have been spared torture if he or she had not gotten up on his/her high horse.
Years ago, a client brought a 5 month old Dane mix puppy in for euthanization because “it was biting at the children”. Um, it was a puppy, for heaven’s sake. My boss, an old, no-nonsense vet, took the dog in and brought it in the back, telling the other tech and myself to put it down. Well, we studiously avoided that task like the plague. Finally, we went to our boss and proposed to him that we find a home, with no chance of kids, to take the pup. If the owner agreed, and we could accomplish this, the pup could then be spared. Miraculously, the owner was fine with this course of action.
We found a 20 something gay man to take the pup. That dog, needless to say, lived a long and cherished life and we were spared the soul-crushing task of killing an innocent pup for the “crime” of being a puppy.