I know, but it’s not murder, like it would be for a human being. I understand how attached people are to their animals, and that they don’t consider them *just* animals, yet it doesn’t have the euthanesia issue behind it.
People put down animals that are sick or too badly injured all the time. I’m just thinking that it would be more merciful than letting it suffer. Burn pain is supposed to be beyond the reach of pain killers. I can’t imagine what this kitten is suffering.
Yes....I agree that we have to decide whether to put the animal down...and this might have been a case to do so.
But ‘murder’ is just a word that people gave a definition. If someone murdered my pet.....God knows I’m going to suffer as much as humanely possible over it.
Look at the pictures above. That doesn’t look like a cat that’s writhing in unbearable pain. And the second article says he bats at toys, which is something a kitten wouldn’t do if it was in horrible pain. I’m sure the treating vet evaluated little Adam’s quality of life and made the decision to treat rather than euthanize with that in mind.