I don't think I'm capable of respecting someone who would put a perfectly healthy dog down to protect their own "health" (yeah right).
We euthanized a dog once. She was about 16 (in human years) and had several different diseases (heartworms, etc.) and had spent her last months just lying on the basement stairs out of the way. It still makes me pretty upset thinking about it, but we decided that she was probably in pretty heavy pain. (For the record, I'm not a fan of euthanization even in that case, but I was like 10.)
So I feel for your aunt. It's not a fun thing to go through.
Our latest collie has a guard dog mindset. Yeah, she barks a lot, but barking means lots of stuff - "Get away from my people", "I'm hungry", "I hear someone and I'm anxious" or even just "I'm happy to see you." Dogs can't talk; there's nothing wrong with them barking. Getting pissed off about it shows that you have the forbearance of a toddler.
I don't get why people find animals so hard to understand. Muzzling a dog is basically the same as forcing someone to keep oven mitts on. It's like declawing a cat - it's not really fair to the animal.
(Oh, and also, I'm sorry, but I don't really approve of your aunt moving somewhere that she couldn't bring her dog. These are things you're supposed to think of *before* you get a dog. It's not like you can have kids and just suddenly decide, oh, nevermind, sorry guys, I have to move to a new house but it's too small for you!)
like I said...my aunt didn't have a choice. She was forced to move because of legal rights iunno-what-it-actually-is. The dog was actually birthed at her place..her son demanded that his husky be impregnated despite what my aunt said...she thought just one husky was enough. (this is the same cousin that electric collared the poor thing) - but he went ahead and did it anyways. There were 5 pups, 3 given away and two that were kept. My cousin decided he couldn't keep two growing pups so he made my aunt take one. She took the pup in (aka taking care of the shit my cousin had no brains to plan out long term) and brought it up. Now there are problems and my freaking cousins refuse to help...and yelled at my aunt for being a "dog murderer" - i guess they never thought about who STARTED the problem. Now my family is trying to fix this problem. We all think euthanization is not the way to go. And despite my grandmother's arthritis...*sigh* she had no right. I've never seen my dad so angry at my grandma. Oh well. in the end...I guess I'm happy that we found a place for the dog..my poor aunt though. She had no control over the situation to begin with - don't blame her for moving. It's not as if she had a chance. The lawyers made her move.
I don't think I'm capable of respecting someone who would put a perfectly healthy dog down to protect their own "health" (yeah right).
We euthanized a dog once. She was about 16 (in human years) and had several different diseases (heartworms, etc.) and had spent her last months just lying on the basement stairs out of the way. It still makes me pretty upset thinking about it, but we decided that she was probably in pretty heavy pain. (For the record, I'm not a fan of euthanization even in that case, but I was like 10.)
So I feel for your aunt. It's not a fun thing to go through.
Our latest collie has a guard dog mindset. Yeah, she barks a lot, but barking means lots of stuff - "Get away from my people", "I'm hungry", "I hear someone and I'm anxious" or even just "I'm happy to see you." Dogs can't talk; there's nothing wrong with them barking. Getting pissed off about it shows that you have the forbearance of a toddler.
I don't get why people find animals so hard to understand. Muzzling a dog is basically the same as forcing someone to keep oven mitts on. It's like declawing a cat - it's not really fair to the animal.
(Oh, and also, I'm sorry, but I don't really approve of your aunt moving somewhere that she couldn't bring her dog. These are things you're supposed to think of *before* you get a dog. It's not like you can have kids and just suddenly decide, oh, nevermind, sorry guys, I have to move to a new house but it's too small for you!)
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