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- From: graziano@ravel.udel.edu (Lisa Marie Graziano)
- Subject: save this dog...
- Message-ID: <C1FBCv.H37@news.udel.edu>
- Followup-To: "Lying vets"
- Sender: usenet@news.udel.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ravel.udel.edu
- Organization: University of Delaware
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:58:07 GMT
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- I feel the need to express an opinion... A vet's first responsibility is
- to the patient, not the owner. A vet is not there to serve people who
- amuse themselves with living toys. A pet owner takes on a tremendous
- responsibility by having pets; and if they at any time refuse to live up
- to it, then the animal, vet, etc have no responsibility to the _former_
- owner. Anyways, I've never _heard_ of a vet doing "experiments" with
- animals. That is ridiculous. Sorry to rant a bit, but would anyone say
- that the police had no right to interfere with those 2 children whose
- parents had abandoned them for a few weeks? That may be a different
- _degree_ of failure but it is all on the same continuum; I mean, its the
- same issue. The idea that people can be owned by other people is only one
- step away from considering other animals exclusive property at the
- disposal of their owners, with no rights as living things.
- Lisa, Chavelah, Cheerio, and Cirdan
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