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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pets can’t communicate that they are in pain. They don’t understand they are going to the vet for a procedure that helps them. They are just scared and in pain. They in fact instinctively hide their pain as in the animal world it would attract predators.

I guarantee you that if you asked this question to 20 retired veterinarians who worked before the private equity scourge in veterinary care, they would ALL say it’s better to euthanize the pet. [/quote]

This is correct, because 99% of people who have pets they actually take to the veterinarian in the first place value their pets' places in their lives, and good veterinarians know that there are plenty of healthy animals in need of homes and actually do feel bad about prolonging the lives of the ones that are ill just for their own financial benefit. They aren't dancing in the throes of McMansion luxury. It's a hard type of medical practice. You have to celebrate young healthy lives and let other ones go. They aren't sentient in the same way humans are.

I have a SIL who is a three decade vet surgeon and my daughter is working her way through vet tech school. She keeps bringing home pets like lab rats because she doesn't want to see them euthanized after training purposes. Like how to put in IVs etc.

I don't know what's currently going on with my SIL's practice because her brother and I are divorced, but I know her place did get absorbed into a big thing and got a whole new giant building in the next city. I also know from before that at home she and her household were reaching capacity with the animals she was taking home, though. And, one day while she was at work, two of the dogs she thought she knew well just packed up in their nice outdoor pen situation and killed one of the vulnerable older ones she was trying to save.

Animals are not humans[/quote]

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