What do you think of this? (for people who care about animal rights)?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100224234048AAY9JLi&r=w#TLZIGHT1CVSH41GFkTW3
This girl said her mom is making her get her cat put down just because he’s incontinent. She said that the vet told her he’s "very healthy for his age." Does this make you mad that people will have a pet killed just because its become an inconvenience? I mean, they make incontinence products for pets – just because it would take a little extra work and the mom doesn’t want her precious furniture ruined. If grandma or grandpa was wetting themselves would she have them put down too? This really disgusts me – a pet is a commitment just like a kid, whether it gets sick or has problems or not.
I know it’s not really about food&drink but I know there are people who post in this section who would have an opinion about it (hence I put that in parentheses).
I would have to disagree with the answerer above me. This is the perfect place to such a question. Being a vegan is more than a diet.
Sadly, my mother would do the same thing. She’s been getting crueler in her old age. Just the other week she was telling me that she found a pregnant rat in her house and went out to buy mouse traps. I was mortified. I suggested one that would at least not kill the rat but for some reason she had it out for the rat because "this is her home."
And I guess it’s the same mentality. "This is MY home and if anything messes it up, it will pay." It’s really very greedy. It’s sad as well, the cat has been in their family for 16 years then suddenly has a problem and they don’t want to deal with him anymore. Then they look for an easy way out. It’s really barbaric. If I were a vet I would refuse to put the cat down because he’s an "inconvenience."
I would tell her that she has taken up a responsibility. The cat was there by her demand and now that he’s in need of help, you have to live up to that responsibility.
This is really sad.
EDIT: Hmm, Shell, funny thing is- is that I never called my mom bitter. She is, however, looking for an easy way out that that happens to be cruel.
Why she has them is beside the point. The point is what she’s doing about it.
yes, it is cruel because the cat is totally healthy, but sometimes if the cat is very badly injured or has some kind of terrible sickness its kinda better for the cat to get put down
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PK, as much as I agree with your statement and with the person who said that the cat should just be given to a shelter since it’s still healthy for his age…this really shouldn’t be posted here because it has nothing to do with Vegetarian & Veganism…at all. No offense chick but seriously, vent it out in the Cat section, not here.
Ms. Skeptic…I understand that many Vegans and Vegetarians in here are in for animal rights, and PK, I understand that you putting animal rights is specifically for those who are down with it…but i was just making a basis on the fact that this a food/drink category. However, I’m not stopping you both lol, carry on, dont mind me.
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I would have to disagree with the answerer above me. This is the perfect place to such a question. Being a vegan is more than a diet.
Sadly, my mother would do the same thing. She’s been getting crueler in her old age. Just the other week she was telling me that she found a pregnant rat in her house and went out to buy mouse traps. I was mortified. I suggested one that would at least not kill the rat but for some reason she had it out for the rat because "this is her home."
And I guess it’s the same mentality. "This is MY home and if anything messes it up, it will pay." It’s really very greedy. It’s sad as well, the cat has been in their family for 16 years then suddenly has a problem and they don’t want to deal with him anymore. Then they look for an easy way out. It’s really barbaric. If I were a vet I would refuse to put the cat down because he’s an "inconvenience."
I would tell her that she has taken up a responsibility. The cat was there by her demand and now that he’s in need of help, you have to live up to that responsibility.
This is really sad.
EDIT: Hmm, Shell, funny thing is- is that I never called my mom bitter. She is, however, looking for an easy way out that that happens to be cruel.
Why she has them is beside the point. The point is what she’s doing about it.
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ere they going to eat it? was it your house the cat was pissing & shitting all over? You should have offered to take the cat home yourself. It’s only a cat FFS!
I had a friend once, had a cat, was sick, couldn’t bear to ‘euthanise ‘ it, so I offered, cat was dispatched with one shot of a .22 rifle, it didn’t suffer.
It’s better to euthanise an animal in distress than allow it to linger & die, that’s cruelty!
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Good lord…why in the world would you ask this question here…except to have everyone agree that your mother is a horrible monster.
Mrs Skeptic…Why, instead of calling your mom bitter. WHY isn’t your first question "WHY DOES MY MOM HAVE RATS????"
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Healthy for it’s age in reference to a 16 year old cat is alive.
As much as I don’t agree with putting a healthy animal down, the animal the girl is talking about isn’t exactly a healthy cat.
We don’t know the situation, they have a 16 year old diabetic cat. It is unfair to condemn the mother for the situation the cat isn’t just peeing on everything it has a host of medical isssues.
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Some people don’t comprehend the fact that animals go through a life cycle just as we do. They are young, grow old, and may encounter problems such as incontinence. I believe some treat their animals no different from furniture. When furniture becomes old and out dated you throw it away. I live in an area that is quite cold during winter months. As a guardian (I won’t say owner sounds like slavery to me) of my companion animals I make sure they are well fed and warm. However others in my neighborhood aren’t as considerate of their animals. I have seen several left in sub zero temperatures chained up with no shelter. Don’t worry the authorities were notified. They are owners not guardians and poor owners at that. I am reminded of a friends dog, he goes by Scrappy. Scrappy is epileptic, he has seizures and loses bowel control. My friend has never considered poisoning an otherwise healthy dog. I have a Lab Dalmation mix, a bad a** cat, and a pit bull. They make diapers for them when they grow old.
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Yes! no 1 shld done dis 2 animals no matter what "reason".
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If it was my cat, old and urinating on everything, I would have it put down- and just about anybody that has owned a cat in a similar situation would agree with me.
I would not video tape it, though.
It’s interesting to note that most vegetarians appear to be opposed to putting the cat down, yet whenever somebody posts a question asking how vegetarians feel about abortion, most vegetarians respond that they are in favor of killing unborn children that are an "inconvenience".
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my friends mom had her cat put to sleep for spraying on the drapes then after it was done they discovered it was the other cat that was doing the spraying oops.
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Personally, I don’t out down pets because of incontinence. But I have the luxury of having large open spaces and don’t allow animals inside the house. I can see several options before I would have to put down this particular cat but that’s based solely on my own situation and resources.
What I don’t see is you and other animal rights fanatics offering any solution beyond your rants. I don’t see you volunteering to go to that person’s house everyday to clean up the mess or replace furniture if it gets damaged. Did you at least offer to buy her new furniture just in case? Did you even volunteer to adopt the cat itself? Or would that be too inconvenient for you? Animal rights activism is a commitment just as much as pet ownership. It takes more than ranting and pretending to find no other section to post this "question".You are not looking for an opinion, you are looking for a pat on the back for keeping with the "code" by feigning indignation over a situation you know you won’t do anything about You can’t make any commitment to save that cat’s life yet the same lack of commitment disgusts you? That;’s called hypocrisy in case you are not aware
Yes and you are the same poster who answered several questions with nothing but a lame " that’s the wrong topic to post in the vegetarian and Vegan section" particularly when you have nothing better to say.. what’s that "H" word again?
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There’s no such thing as "animal rights."
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