>There are people who look at an animal as just that, an animal.  They
>believe they're a 'disposable' commodity, and shaking them or talking
>to them, means nothing.
 
I met someone who was telling me they just put their dog down.  I
sympathetically asked if the dog was old and very sick.  She said "no,
he was a 2 year old lab, but he was just too energetic.  The vet said
it was more humane than taking him to a shelter"!!!!!!  I had seen this
dog, as they live around the block from me.  She admitted he wasn't mean
or anything, just too "common", i.e. a lab can't get adopted around here,
I guess.  It made me sick - heck, I would have taken the dog to keep it
from death.  She told me her boy was upset.  Duh!  I admit I kind of
wondered about that vet!
 
Jean
[Posted in FML issue 4232]