Why do you kill them?

[TOTO]

You have a pet - dog, cat, horse...etc

You LOVE your pet - dog, cat, horse...etc

It is a part of your family, and has been for years.

Your pet gets old, starts to have health issues assosiated with old age - cant see very well, doesnt move all that fast...etc

Instead of looking after pet as you would for any other member of the family, you take your pet to the vet and are having it "put down". You KILL your pet - the one you "LOVE" - dog, cat, horse...etc.

How can you kill a live creature that you love ? WHY ?

[MSTRS:Me]

Because you don't want to see it suffer and if you leave it living you risk being charged with cruelty to an animal.
You'd do the same for some person you love, if you were allowed to...

[SMOKEU]

Because you don't want to see it suffer and if you leave it living you risk being charged with cruelty to an animal.
You'd do the same for some person you love, if you were allowed to...

+1 to that.

[yungatart]

We all know instances of people who have died a long painful death because we aren't allowed to help them on their way. It is cruel to both them and their families.
When my aging pussy gets to that stage, I will certainly be taking her to the vet. I doubt very much that she will last another winter, the cold will get to her and she is not an inside cat.

[Goblin]

I had my dog "put down" so she wouldn't have to suffer any longer. When you come home and your dog just lays there looking at you, no spark left in her eyes, she's in pain and there's nothing any vet can do to make her better again, its the only humane thing to do.
When my Grandmother was into her nineties, all she ever asked for was a knock on the head. We all knew she'd had enough and wanted it to be over. Took her three years to die slowly. Bloody awful thing for her and her family to go through.

[Usarka]

The bastard ate my homework.

[EJK]

Have you seen "Million Dollar Baby"?


Go figure.

[Mom]

I had to have an old cat of mine put to sleep a few years ago, it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. The cat had kidney disease and was n steriods and other drugs to keep him as well as he could get. He basically only slept and ate. I had toddlers who LOVED him. He would get himself settled in a sunny spot for a sleep and one of the kids would pick him up, or pat him as only a loving toddler can. he did not get a moments peace. I used to put him on my bed and close the door on him for some peace. He just pissed all over my bedroom as he could not get out The drugs would keep him well for about a month and them he would go down hill again. Had I not had the kids I may have kept going with him for a bit longer, but it was cruel to him in the end.

[Ronin]

Because my cat of 18 years didnt understand why he couldn't make it outside anymore. Didn't know that all the pills and injections were to help him.

To keep him alive any longer would have been cruel and more for us than him. His quality of life had gone.

[Big Dave]

The bastard ate my homework.

Aldus, see me after class.

[Mom]

The bastard ate my homework.

I had a goat that ate anything, literally. I told the kids to stay away from Max, one time he ate a birthday party favour from some kids hand and I had to pacify said kid who was in tears. We were growing flowers at the time and one day the kids cleared the mail complete with a consigment of seeds I had ordered in for a trial crop. They were expensive and I had waited a long time to source them. Yepper you guessed it, the friggen goat had a good attempt at eating them along with the other mail, pity it did not suceed in eatnig the bills and the foil sealed package of seeds proved to bit a bit difficult to tear into, a few seeds crushed was the only damage. I never killed the goat over it, though I was tempted to murder the child

[duckonin]

Because you don't want to see it suffer and if you leave it living you risk being charged with cruelty to an animal.
You'd do the same for some person you love, if you were allowed to...

+10, that is the way it is.

[onearmedbandit]

Yeah 'cos keeping them alive on drugs etc for our pleasure and entertainment is sooo much more desirable.

[Ixion]

.. Instead of looking after pet as you would for any other member of the family, you take your pet to the vet and are having it "put down". You KILL your pet - the one you "LOVE" - dog, cat, horse...etc.

How can you kill a live creature that you love ? WHY ?

Because you love them. Sometimes love means rising above selfishness and realising the final gift your love can give is the gift of release

Master, pity Thy Servant! He is deaf and three parts blind.
He cannot catch Thy Commandments. He cannot read Thy Mind.
Oh, leave him not to his loneliness; nor make him that kitten's scorn.
He hath had no other God than Thee since the year that he was born.

Lord, look down on Thy Servant! Bad things have come to pass.
There is no heat in the midday sun, nor health in the wayside grass.
His bones are full of an old disease -- his torments run and increase.
Lord, make haste with Thy Lightnings and grant him a quick release!

You are young, when you are old you will understand

And, I would do the same for a person I loved, were it not for the law. And I wish that those whop love me could do the same for me.

[Oscar]

You have a pet - dog, cat, horse...etc

You LOVE your pet - dog, cat, horse...etc

It is a part of your family, and has been for years.

Your pet gets old, starts to have health issues assosiated with old age - cant see very well, doesnt move all that fast...etc

Instead of looking after pet as you would for any other member of the family, you take your pet to the vet and are having it "put down". You KILL your pet - the one you "LOVE" - dog, cat, horse...etc.

How can you kill a live creature that you love ? WHY ?

I would respectfully suggest that you get some more life experience before you make statements like this in such a pejorative manner.


I had my dog put to sleep.
I held her in my arms and watched her eyes change as the pain went away.
I cried like a baby for my friend of fifteen years.