Well done for having the devotion, compassion and persistence to see this difficult matter through. There are so many senseless, random examples of cruelty to animals around the world and it is difficult to understand the Buddhist mindset that allows such suffering 'by default' although not intended.
You and the vet have made a difference today and stood up for humane values.
RIP little doggie.
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Urgent - Need Vet That Will Agree To Provide Euthanasia
Started by pumpum, 2012-01-30 16:05
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32 replies to this topic
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ETatBKK
Senior Member Posted 2012-02-06 20:43:59
+100
pumpum, please keep this vet contact with you, sooner or later someone will need this service, unfortunately. #28
meatboy
Super Member Posted 2012-02-07 06:21:02
+100 pumpum, please keep this vet contact with you, sooner or later someone will need this service, unfortunately. #29
WaatWang
Senior Member Posted 2012-02-07 14:06:05
In December we had to make this difficult decision as well. We had tried everything to help our dog get better, but he was very old. Towards the end, we were going to visit the vet once or twice a week to try different medicines and treatments.
I just knew in my heart the day I had dreaded had come. We brought him back to the vet and asked about it. He requested that we do some bloodwork just to see if anything else could be done for him, but indeed it showed his liver was starting to shut down. The vet agreed to do the euthanasia, and we were surrounded by other kind, supportive staff as well. Everyone knew our dog since we had been there so often. Sorry for you loss - I know how difficult it can be. I am glad you were able to find someone to help him cross over and end his suffering. #30
pumpum
Advanced Member Posted 2012-02-07 15:25:34
Thanks all. The funny thing is, this little guy was not even my dog, he belonged to my landlady who lives out of town, so we just shared living quarters. That did not make his suffering any easier to bear though and I just had to do something for him.
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bina
Platinum Member Posted 2012-02-07 15:34:16
there is no 'rule' against eating meat. there is one of the precepts to 'not take life' therefore eating meat means taking n animal's life. it is not a religious injunction. just a suggestion to someone if they want to 'live right work right etc'...
as far as slaughtering animals, i have met thais that wont slaughter at all, thais that wont eat 'higher animals i.e. buffalo, beef, etc; others that eat anything and everything but wont slaughter and yet others that will slaughter. since buddhism is a personal system i.e. individuals are responsible only for themselves, everyone chooses how he/she wants to behave. therefore there is no 'rule' to not euthenize, but there is no rule that says u must either. to us it means leaving an animal in endless pain. to others it means killing , for no reason whatsover (playing god as to who lives and who dies). which is a different discussion. buddhism also says that life is a line of birth lving sufferring and death). i.e. u suffer and then die. it is part of living and no one but your own self can do anything aabout it. of course from our point of view that is seemingly criminal and cruel. but someone from an other culture, deciding when someone or something should die, is cruel and criminal (rather like debates about abortion, and human uethenasia). even here , getting a vet to euthenize is not so easy, often they wont do it unless it really really is for the sake of the animal and not for the sake of the owner who feels that hte animal is sufferring , or cant take care of the animal in last stages of disease ... whether or not thais slaughter or not slaughter, poison or not poisons animals is not the debate, as i said before, every person's aderance to budhist precepts is their own choice and not a collective way of living. therefore it is a personal decision for a vet to do this. and having been owner of farm animals and pets that have had to be euthenized, and working with vets and helping to euthenize, it is never an easy decision for the vet to decide whether or not 'now is the time', regardless of what the owner might feel. my own personal hope with many of the farm animals that i have had to euthenize (a paralyzed goat kid, a buck with septicemia to mention two that until now i cant forget) was ' am i making the right decision, is this animal ready? or is it me just not wanting to deal with its pain? - and always hopeing that the animal might go to sleep and just not wake up, before i have to insert the needle, and push the contents of the syringe in. death of an animal is always sad, but it is the sufferring before the death that makes it so difficult for us. most likely younger and more modern thai vets will be more likely to be willing to euthenize if needed. bina #32
MauriceVanTine
Advanced Member Posted 2012-04-26 14:11:55
My wife is most kindhearted and loves animals she ocasionally will bring home an animal that has been injured by an automobile and is clearly past most help available here . I have often wondered if there might be a vet out there whom might be willing to train a layman how to properly administer a lethal dose of antistetic to these unfortunite anamals.
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Naam
Star Member Posted 2012-04-26 16:27:05
having one of my dogs put to sleep is my worst nightmare. but i'm the first one to go for it if there's something incurable and they suffer. what i will not do is leave him/her with a vet but he/she will die painless at home in my arms by the medication which i will administer myself.
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