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- Newsgroups: rec.pets
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!laf
- From: laf@world.std.com (Lisa A Fullam)
- Subject: Please save this adorable dog...
- Message-ID: <C1EBzI.H0q@world.std.com>
- Keywords: vet, ethics
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Distribution: rec.pets
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:14:05 GMT
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- Does the implied deception by the vet trouble anybody out there? Sure, the
- person asking to have a healthy dog killed should have been talked to,
- dissuaded, if possible. But if the owner asked to have the dog killed, and
- the vet agreed, surely it would be wrong to place the animal in another
- home without the permission of the previous owner! For one thing, perhaps
- the previous owner knew that the dog bites--it's hardly fair to ask some
- unsuspecting Good Sam-type to take a biting dog. For another thing, this
- practice--lying to one's clients, becomes more sinister in other contexts.
- It's not uncommon for people to ask vets, when they bring old, sick
- animals to be put to sleep, "You're not going to experiment on him, are
- you?" This is fairly wrenching for the conscientious vet, who tries, as
- much as possible, to serve honestly, the needs of pets and owners. Lying
- to one's clients, no matter how noble the cause, seems to me only to break
- down the trust between vet and client.
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- What do you think?
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