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- From: "amy lynn young-leith" <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Please save this adorable dog...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.120152.29539@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Keywords: vet, ethics
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <C1EBzI.H0q@world.std.com>
- Distribution: rec.pets
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:01:44 -0500
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- In article <C1EBzI.H0q@world.std.com> laf@world.std.com (Lisa A Fullam) writes:
- >
- >Does the implied deception by the vet trouble anybody out there? Sure, the
-
- Doesn't bother me one bit. It does bother me that people who use pets
- like this don't have the shit beaten out of them when they try
- something like this.
-
- >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
-
- No, it would not. I believe that by wanting something KILLED just
- because you no longer have the time means that you relenquish any
- ownership to it, since it IS a living being. It's life takes priority
- over someones "right" to it's body.
-
- >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
-
- I imagine that a person coming in to have a viscious dog put down
- would clearly state so, and not say, "Oh, it's gotten too big and I
- can't keep it any longer." I doubt that any vet would ever try to
- place an unsafe dog with anyone other than someone who knew clearly
- what the dogs problem was, and was going to attempt to change it.
-
- >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.
-
- I wouldn't trust a vet who WOULD put down animals just because the
- owners were selfish shitheads.
-
- amy
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- alyoung@kiwi.indiana.edu Occupation: Lifetime Student
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- *This post was made on personal time and has nothing to do whatsoever with *
- * the attitudes or opinions of Indiana University. *
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