Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Not here in Germany. You won’t find a vet who will kill a healthy animal. Kill shelters are also not a thing. Ditto the UK.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You cannot own a human being.

  Anymore. Humans can be amazing and very cruel.

  But yes, ask a veterinarian and they will tell you sadly why.

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  • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Slavery still exists, in fact there’s more slaves today than ever before. 50 million slaves last I checked. Mostly because overall human population has obviously increased drastically too but I digress.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Privatized prisons are slavery too, you’re right.

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      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        State-run prisons where labor can be required would also qualify as slavery by any definition.

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      • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Depends I guess if you view UNICOR as private or not since it’s government owned. We call them crown corporations in Canada.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anymore

    Exactly, and when you could, it was also allowed to beat them to death, as long as they didn’t die immediately, but it took a day or two. Those are the rules of the bible.

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• RaoulDuke85@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  From experience, it was hard to have a healthy dog put down. It was my dad’s dog and he had dementia. It was a very aggressive dog and killed other dogs in the pack. I had to keep convincing the vet it was a danger to have. It wasn’t an easy process.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I had to keep convincing the vet it was a danger to have. It wasn’t an easy process.

    If it wasn’t your dog, you are not the one to decide, obviously your dad having dementia means he isn’t fit to make the decision. You did well in this case. And I think the doctor was acting according to regulation.

    But when you actually are the owner, it’s a very different story, and our neighbor did exactly what I wrote, in her defense she was dying of cancer, but we and another family she knew both offered to adopt the dog, the dog was very fond of both of us, my wife walked it daily, and when we visited, the dog would jump on the couch and lie across my lap, which it did for nobody else. But she went ahead and had the dog put down anyway. Perfectly legal as it is done humanely.
    My wife actually has trauma about the incident, because the vet came to her house, and my wife was there for support, and when my wife found the leash to hold him, he was so filled with joy because he thought they were going for a walk, but it was only to hold him while he was injected.

    So yes you can have perfectly healthy happy good dogs put down, you don’t even have to give a reason. They also do it at rescue shelters all the time.

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