>The Applellate Court brief was very short, and actually it was ferret >friendly, focussing on language issues in the CDC Compendium of 1997. It >stated firmly that execution (why do they call it euthanasia?) is NOT >mandatory in all cases involving animals in whom shedding periods are not >conclusively determined. I've been wondering the same thing. I have always considered euthanasia to be defined as "mercy killing," a last shot for a poor fuzzy (or human, if we weren't all so squeamish about it, but that's of course MHO :) near the end. This is *not*, in my philosopher's picky opinion about semantics, euthanasia -- it is indeed simply the completely unnecessary *killing* of an innocent animal. Calling it euthanasia is just another attempt by TPTB to sugar-coat a reprehensible act by slapping a euphemistic label on it. GO KODO!!! -Tasha "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." -- Bertrand Russell [Posted in FML issue 1944]