Posted on 01/31/2006 1:21:51 PM PST by grundle
Q: About a year ago, I made the heart-wrenching decision to leave a great job, house, friends and family to move to Hawaii with my fiancé.
As part of this transition, I also chose to have my two beloved chow chow dogs put to sleep.
I adored those dogs, but I justified their sacrifice to the greater good of a successful relationship.
After six months, I am still tormented by memories of my dogs. The depths of anguish and loss make me think I got rid of them for purely selfish reasons, which is the kind of behavior I thought I reviled. I feel that I have gone from dog-lover to dog-killer in one trans-Pacific flight.
A: I am truly sorry you feel so wracked with guilt about your decision to put your dogs to sleep.
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I suppose she could have looked in to other options but some people are over the edge about animals. I don't remember people being this way when I was growing up, but I could be wrong. Animals are animals, people take them on for different reasons. If she's going to get all wacky about putting the dogs down she definitely shouldn't have put them down and probably should have never taken them on in the first place.
Probably an easy choice.
They were chow dogs, get over it. Now, if they had been labs.......
Yeah man that's me.
Exactly
My parent's cat HATES my brother's liberal wife. Once he nearly knocked over a plant stand trying to run away from her when she walked into their house.
Susan Smith...
About an hour ago after coming back from the mailbox, I noticed a cat in my backyard; I had let my dogs out just as I went out front and they had just spotted the cat about the same time I did.
The cat turned and was was staring at my mama dog with the puppy about 25 feet in front of the cat; mama dog took two steps toward the cat and that cat just sprinted three feet to the fence and scrambled thirty feet up a tree.
The cat's still sitting up there, just looking around at the scenery; nope, gotta take that last part back, just as I was about to hit post the cat disappeared down the back side of the tree.
I never see cats around here.
Someone should euthanize this woman...
Good point.And I wonder how many guilt free abortions she might have had in her life.
That's why we're FRiends.
Didn't mean to gross anyone out. It is a true story and this kid exactly fit the profile for people who abuse animals. He was a bully of the worst kind and was always starting fights for absolutely no reason.
If anybody tries to tell me to kill my dog they may as well take a long hike 'cause that ain't never gonna happen!
Would that be you position if she was seriously allergic to cats? Many people are...including me.
I was going to post a comment about growing up on a farm in the north woods during the summer. I was going to explain what life was like before there was an ASPCA or professional services that handled animals, including the ubiquitous barn cats that could get terminally ill or threaten epidemics among the other cats and human babies on the farm.
But this thread isn't going the way I thought it would so I won't post that.
Except I will point out that probably half of the people on this thread know darn well that they've had a cherished pet put down as the pet reached old age.
This woman clearly put her pets down sooner than she would have otherwise...which is what the ethical problem is all about...but even then I would say that a lot of people here aren't owning up to what they did themselves along those lines.
Yes.
If someone gave me a million dollars and a free mansion in Hawaii, there is absolutely no way I would do that to my dog. Not ever.
The only way I would even consider that would be if he was terminally ill.
No way, no how, not for anyone or any amount of money.
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"""I might bump off a girlfriend because she didn't like my animals""""
LOL
I have, and I will again if neccesary.
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