[expatguy]

Our family dog is getting old, he can't see and the vet told me he has heart worms or something. He does not even get up when we call him anymore.

We have spent the last 6 months trying to talk to our dog and he does nothing but stick him tongue out and fart.

The dog refuses to play with the children, bark and chase the mailman or keep cats out of our yard and serves no useful purpose anymore. He has become nothing more than a financial burden on us with absolutely no hopes of recovery.

Perhaps we should remove his feeding bowl and put him out of his misery.

[Awestruck]

and yet if you did starve your dog, you'd be arrested and demonized in the press..

[lastchance]

Your dog seems fairly useless, of no value to anyone, unable to function in but the merest capacity. Why not have him run for judge in Pinellas County?