| how do you go about gentley telling someone their dog needs to be put down?
Posted: 9/24/2007 6:28:45 PM | RIP Ozzy, I thank you again for helping to do the right thing. He's no longer suffering. I'm getting choked up again for the guy. Thanks for being there with him, he is now having the time of his life I bet, running in the greenest field with the sun shining on him happy as can be....
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| how do you go about gentley telling someone their dog needs to be put down?
Posted: 9/27/2007 1:07:19 PM | Paws,
Thanks for helping this sweet boy, to move on and end his suffering. I know how hard it is, and I am glad he was not alone. When I had to say good-bye to my shepard, I felt like she knew too. She had suffered enough, but not nearly as long as this poor dog did.
I am so glad you got his family to listen.
My computer broke and I was unable to check back for some time, on your progress.
I was so glad to hear Ozzie's suffering was over. | |
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| how do you go about gentley telling someone their dog needs to be put down?
Posted: 10/14/2007 3:24:06 PM | I didn't see this thread until today. I think it was very nice for that poor animal to have so many of us here concerned. I think many animals in the same situation would not have had as much concern. Kudos to all of you who posted.
I will remind you all of one thing that some do not know (apparently) I actually asked the question of a police officer at one time...
An animal is the property of a person. To feed it poison or take it away for any purpose (even as a kindness) is stealing and/damaging another person's property. The officer told me that the only thing you can legally do is to confront the owners or the authorities. You cannot take action yourself no matter how well intended.
He used the analogy of a person's front door. If you saw it was hanging off the hinges and knew it needed repair to prevent the children inside from suffering the cold drafts, you are no more at liberty to repair it, replace, it or do anything to it any more than you would be at liberty to break a perfectly good door down to gain unwelcome entrance to the other person's home.
Rest in peace, Ozzie.  | |
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| how do you go about gentley telling someone their dog needs to be put down?
Posted: 10/16/2007 11:55:06 AM |
An animal is the property of a person. To feed it poison or take it away for any purpose (even as a kindness) is stealing and/damaging another person's property. The officer told me that the only thing you can legally do is to confront the owners or the authorities. You cannot take action yourself no matter how well intended.
I'm not sure where you are from, deceased, but in canada, or atleast BC, you can legally take someone's dog, or cat for that matter, from them if you can prove that it's being abused or negelected. We have the right to claim that the owners are not properly caring for the animal and the owners can also be charged if the animal is injured. According to the SPCA, Dog control, and 2 police officers, I could have taken this dog to the vet and put him down without consulting the owners, however, they are family, and i know they did love him and that's why it was so hard for them to let him go. i wanted them to have the option of being there when it happened, just so they could say good-bye, rather than just taking him away and not telling them. Plus, it was damn near impossible to get this dog into a vehicle. If you tried to lift him he'd yelp and and snap cause it hurt, but he couldn't jump in himself either, so getting the vet to come to him was my only option, but the vet wouldn't come out to the house unless I had permission from the actual owners.
My friend and i stole/rescued a dog from our neighbour once, this poor dog spent his entire life on the end of a chain attached to a dog house that was way too small for him. (he was a siberian husky/malamute cross) and he never had clean water, he got table scraps and that's it. I never saw them feed him kibble and I never saw them take him out of the yard or off the chain for that matter. We took pictures (with the dates on the film) and after about a month of watching this dog get skinnier and skinner, and his fug get more and more matted, we finally jumped the fence into his yard, unclipped the chain from his collar and he immediately started running laps around his yard (which was about half an acre fully fenced, and all he got was an 8 foot chain) he came over to us, jumped up and started licking our faces taking turns jumping on both of us.
We unlocked his gate and opened it and he bolted out, ran across the street to the park and just stood there waiting for us to catch up to him. We walked him to the corner store and used the pay phone to call the spca. We gave them the pics and told them the story and they thanked us, and also told us that they needed a pic of his owners so they knew who not to give the dog back to. They ended up giving his new owners our names and numbers so if they ever needed a dog walker they could call us and we'd do it for free. (this poor guy was like a big teddy bear and was so full of love it was heartbreaking to see him on the end of such a short chain.)
He ended up going to a great family with kids and another dog for him to play with, and my friend and I got to visit with him every few weeks. he looked 100% better after the second week with this family, and he even got his own couch and his own toddler bed inside with the rest of the family. | |
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| how do you go about gentley telling someone their dog needs to be put down?
Posted: 12/16/2007 4:05:28 PM | The biggest thing one needs to think of, is whether or not the animal is suffering. Some people view their pets, as family members. They wouldn't think of pulling the plug on life support of an aunt, uncle, grand parent, child, etc.
If any of my animals are in a situation where they would benefit from death, then yes, I would put them down, but if they are not in excruciating pain, and still have a mind, and heart, then I would be a little hesitant as well.
The people may know that the dog needs to be put down, but sometimes its a case of following the heart and the brain both at the same time...
CowTrucker
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| how do you go about gentley telling someone their dog needs to be put down?
Posted: 12/19/2007 4:03:27 AM | | When an animal or a person is suffering people are usually oblivious to their pain due to the emotional attachement they have with that individual. They will pretend that it is not happening because they will miss them if that person were to die. If My cat ever suffers immensely I will have her put to sleep. that way I know she is no longer suffering. And when I suffer a stroke and can't talk right anymore and i just mumble, S.h.i.t. and piss runs down my leg and i also have alzheimers, I pray to god that they blow my f.u.c.k.i.n.g. brains right out. I can't live that way. | |
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Posted: 12/19/2007 7:44:07 AM | I'm currently 'sitting' a 'Little-dead-dog' that my neighbor couldn't take with her to her new apt.
She's a little Dauxie . . but the most Pitiful thing you ever saw . .
Mostly blind . . half deaf, and limping around on 4 gimpy16 year-old little legs . .
It's an effort for her to get over the doorway _threshhold_ to go outside . . !!
I would've taken her to the vet..months ago .. but thought she'd pass naturally . .
But she's hangin' IN there . . !! . . and PooPin' on the rug . . | |
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| how do you go about gentley telling someone their dog needs to be put down?
Posted: 12/19/2007 8:27:10 AM | yna6 - Thank you for effectively removing yourself from the gene pool by virtue of your comments.
You're doing the world a favor.
OP - It ain't your dog.
It does sound a little extreme the way you're describing it, but I wonder what a description by the actual owner of the dog would sound like.
The dog knows when it's time to go. | |
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