"Wally" wrote in message
news | Jonathan Ganz wrote:
|
| Bull****. Sometimes that's the most humane option.
|
| What does "humane" mean in this context?

I think it means they'll put you down nice and quiet like with a syringe...
for your own good..... as opposed to the "feline" method of ripping your
body to shreds while maintaining a vise like grip on your throat for their
own good.

A vet here got nailed on cruelty charges.... apparently someone brought in
their cat to be "euthanized' [sic] and as he was getting into his car in the
back parking lot... saw the vet grab his dear ole cat by the tail and swing
it around prior to smashing it's head on the counter... Twice!!

They claimed it was inhumane.... the vet claimed the end results were the
same.

CM

Capt. Mooron wrote:

What does "humane" mean in this context?

I think it means they'll put you down nice and quiet like with a
syringe... for your own good..... as opposed to the "feline" method
of ripping your body to shreds while maintaining a vise like grip on
your throat for their own good.

I was meaning the option to put down or not put down, rather than the method
of putting down.


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"Wally" wrote in message

| I was meaning the option to put down or not put down, rather than the
method
| of putting down.

The option is always there Wally..... the methods vary. Generally it would
mean in this context that the critter was a goner anyway, eventually, so
the choice was made for it. Go gentle into that good night now... or rage
against the dying of the light later.

Humane is an intent.... the reality is the outcome remains the same. If the
cat had learned to talk... it could have decided whether it would rather die
in a battle with an enraged pitbull or gently in it's sleep having it's
tummy rubbed and ear scratched. Then again if it could talk it would have
hired a team of lawyers... sued it's owner, demanded freedom for all cats
and become a burden on society.

Some Asian family is starving because they can't afford to buy a cat or dog
for supper and we're burying $1500 cats. Is there no justice?

CM

Capt. Mooron wrote:

I was meaning the option to put down or not put down, rather than
the method of putting down.

The option is always there Wally..... the methods vary. Generally it
would mean in this context that the critter was a goner anyway,
eventually, so the choice was made for it. Go gentle into that good
night now... or rage against the dying of the light later.

Your use of "gentle" paints a picture of the vet's injection that isn't
neccessarily true.


Humane is an intent.... the reality is the outcome remains the same.
If the cat had learned to talk... it could have decided whether it
would rather die in a battle with an enraged pitbull or gently in
it's sleep having it's tummy rubbed and ear scratched.

Those two scenarios are polarised and don't really reflect the spread that
exists in reality.


Some Asian family is starving because they can't afford to buy a cat
or dog for supper and we're burying $1500 cats. Is there no justice?

Perhaps that would be better placed in a thread concerned with politcs and
economics.


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Wally
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"Wally" wrote in message
| Those two scenarios are polarised and don't really reflect the spread that
| exists in reality.

You're just trying to "psych" me out aren't you Wally..... it ain't gonna
work!

| Perhaps that would be better placed in a thread concerned with politcs and
| economics.

Sailing is all about compromises Wally...... like politics & economics!

CM