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Originally Posted by Michael Romanos
We have found yet another law in the USA that needs sifting - giving a vet no choice to say: no not here, go somewhere else , is inhuman, unbelieveable and undemocratic. I wonder if the Chinese have a better system. So let's rephrase that - no vet in Oceania, Europe and parts of South America, Asia and Africa would be compelled to euthanise a healthy and able animal especially a young pedigree pup.
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Shoot the Chinese kill pets in front of their owners if they don't have rabies shots, not a better system IMO.
Chinese county slaughters 50,000 dogs - Pet health - MSNBC.com
Let Us Now Kill All The Dogs / China slaughters tens of thousands of canines with giant clubs. How appalling is it?
I'll bet the laws in some of the countries you mention are very similar to the US.
And there would be a downside to changing the law, and yes, the AR people are trying to do that. They want to make us "guardians" of our animals not owners. And yes, that means that the choice for care may be taken from us. While that may save a healthy dog it might also stop someone from treating a dog with cancer should someone think that it's cruel to put a dog through chemotherapy. Or it could prevent you from putting down an old dog when YOU know it's time but someone else thinks that you should be doing a treatment that might or might not help. Sometimes an owner knows when enough is enough and an outsider might not.
While is sounds awful to euthanize a healthy pet, IMO, it's still better that an "owner" have the right to make the decisions and not an outsider or government agency.
Peggy