i have...dog cant walk

dog dying(in-operable liver tumour).....

cat with terminal cancer.

thats personal exp not from clients....lists are endless from them,thing is even if its hopeless a vet cant make the decision for you,that has to be you.

I know there are cases like that - I was wondering (out loud) if it was the more common.
Maybe I have been....for want of a better word.....lucky.

I have read this thread with a strange interest, being a committed vegetarian... I do find some meat eaters hypocritical in their views about the slaughter of animals, but that is because I have always had the view that if you are prepared to eat meat, you should be prepared to kill it in the first place, the reason I justify buying meat for the dogs, they would kill to eat if they had to... anyhoo thats my opinion...
The normal slaughterhouses are far from kind and merciful to the animals there, they know they are going to their deaths and some are horrific I also don't feel easy with the slit throat method either, that initial cut must really hurt and the animal does experience pain, though I realise as blood loss goes on the animal loses consciousness.
Would I end my own animals suffering if a vet couldn't come to me or I couldn't get to them, i.e snowbound/storm etc... If I had to, not sure how, don't want to think of it tbh, but know I couldn't slit their throat...
As for going to the vet to pts, most of ours have gone to be pts, I don't see how I am a bad owner for making this choice really...

If you are suggesting that I wrote that anyone is a bad owner for chosing to take their dog to the vet can I suggest you read what I wrote.

I said that there was no need to do it to point out that there was another option. It was in answer to one post.

rune

I don't know enough about throat slitting----some people obviously do.

I have had animals shot and I have had chickens necks wrung.

rune

Great post, my thoughts exactly.

For the last time---I DIDN'T MAKE ANY JUDGEMENT ON ANYONE WHO CHOSE TO TAKE THEIR DOG TO THE VET TO BE PTS.

I don't normally get this annoyed by the fact that people are unable to follow a thread and read posts properly in relation to each other but this is REALLY getting up my nose!

rune

The you have been lucky, for many people a calculated decision is the only option they have.

But I think you know thats not what I meant,

The calculated decision being discussed was not "having to have your pet PTS" , but the "method used!

I have to ask, more because I'm curious really as I know I've always done the best by my dogs, but can you tell me how you would've handled the following situation.....

I was on nightshifts and when I arrived home one morning I walked in to find Pickles on his last legs, gasping for breath. It turned out that he had collapsed after his last walk and stopped breathing. My Mam revived him and he'd then struggled for breath all night. It was Sunday morning when I came home, my vets was shut and my elderly 15 year old dog was clearly suffering. I rang the emergency vets, took him down for them to have a look at knowing full well that I'd have to leave him behind. It broke my heart as I've always preferred to have my dogs PTS at home.

You say there is no need to take a dog to the vets to be PTS - so how would you've ended Pickles' suffering that day given that it was Sunday and the emergency vets didn't do call outs?

OK, so for augments sake, you got a crash course on the benifits of euthanizing by slitting a dogs throat.

You have two options, 1) take the dog to the vet to be euthanized, 2) have a slaughter man come and slit your dog's throat!

Its a simple enough question, but one some are avoiding like the plaque , before the will answer.