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| Ignore a dying kitten in the street and let it die |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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 Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:52 am Post subject: Life in Your Hands... |
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| Which of the two options is preferable? |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:57 am Post subject: |
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You didn't include a third option...
3. Kill it there and then. |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Why would I have it put down three years later? Is it still sick then?
I totally believe if I could give it a good life for the time I am here, I would be happy to take care of something, really take care of it, then say goodbye to it when I leave (and find a suitable replacement owner). |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| Yes. Put it out of its misery there and then. When I was a kid, my old man took me out to the rubbish dump to show me what becomes of the cats and dogs people are too "kind" to put down. Better off dead than live like that. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| option a) is cheaper. |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| katydid wrote: |
| Why would I have it put down three years later? Is it still sick then? |
right ... so I guess you would just have it put down immediately. makes sense... |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| If you can, the best thing to do is foster the kitten until a home can be found (assuming you can't adopt the kitten). Otherwise, the least you can do is call a rescue organization that will try to rehome him/her. |
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gajackson1
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Casa Chil, Sungai Besar, Sultanate of Brunei
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Saint, is this a real-life practical application question, or a philosophical musing?
Just wondering,
Glen
(we dealt with something like this a few weeks ago, but our answer/solution is a little long for here). |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Saint, is this a real-life practical application question, or a philosophical musing?
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I wondered the same thing! Either way, it's a pretty bizarre question. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| 3 happy years and then a relatively easy death is far, far better than complete and utterly misery and dying from starvation or the like. |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| the saint wrote: |
| katydid wrote: |
| Why would I have it put down three years later? Is it still sick then? |
right ... so I guess you would just have it put down immediately. makes sense... |
If I took in a cat and then found it were sick, I would try to nurse it back to health, but there's no way I'd put down a cat just because I was leaving. I also wouldn't have a cat that was in utter pain live.
I was once faced with this decision when I took in a cat, and it turned out when the doctor went to spay her, he found she had some kind of scary-ass lump on her back. It was like the worst week of my life, waiting for the results to come in, to see what was going to happen to her, and then I would have to make a decision for what I wanted to do.
I talked with a friend of mine who told me her family's cat had cancer but her family decided they were going to give it the best life possible until it started showing signs of pain and suffering. THEN they would put it down.
That's a good enough idea for me.
Luckily for me, my cat's tumor turned out to me some fat mass which will go away in between 3 and 6 months. My cat is happy and healthy, getting in my face and under my feet, shredding my furniture and doing all the things a healthy cat does. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| why don't people care about all the starving rats? I'm sure if you cleaned them up and stroked them enough you could get a rat to shoot you the odd disdainful look as it scratched your furniture. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Life in Your Hands... |
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Because rats are just ghastly James. Kittens are cute and cuddly.
| the saint wrote: |
| Which of the two options is preferable? |
I'm assuming this is true, Saint, and an experience you just had. If I were you, I'd go back, pick up the kitten, take it to the animal hospital and ask them to put it down.
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| I'm sure if you cleaned them up and stroked them enough you could get a rat to shoot you the odd disdainful look as it scratched your furniture. |
My cat already does this. |
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sillywilly
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| My son has two pet rats. They're nice but they don't like each other much. |
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