katysails wrote:

There are choices and then there are choices. If a person does not spend the money for the euthanasia, then he will spend it for the vet. I had a client with 3 small children. The family acquired a cute fuzzy wuzzy daisy dog with an unfortunate genetic bone disease. ...

Any distaste and anger this unfortunate event elicits should be directed
at the fools who bred the cute fuzzy wuzzy daisy dog and at the
over-emotional idiots who suborned their crime by buying it. And no, it
isn't all the big breeders. Had "fuzzy" been a more healthy male, they
might have showed him til he became a "champion" then bred him and taken
"pick of the litter" in payment. Then they'd have bred him to his
daughter to recoup the $big$ they paid for him and make a profit. After
all that's what the people they got him from had done, and recommended -
and the fools before them and ... ad nauseum. That's how these horror
stories begin.