What's your opinion on... euthanasia

[.sarah]

I am so glad that euthanasia is available. I can't tell you how many animals have been euthanized at work who were suffering and simply would have been strung along had it not been available. My boy Buttons was euthanized in February, on a bad day for him. It was just his time to go, his organs were shutting down, and we felt it should be a fast, painless death. He was getting extremely disoriented, he had already started going senile, and he just wasn't happy anymore. I could never euthanize my pet on a good day, unless if he/she had to be euthanized because it needed a sugery that was nearly impossible to recover from. In that case I would try to make it's last day a good day, but in most situations I would wait until my pet has no quality of life yet, because one good day can always lead to another one.

And I truly wish that euthanasia was available for suffering people. I wish Terri Shaivo could have been euthanized instead of starved to death -- how cruel!

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

I'm not sure whether I'd put them to sleep on a good day or a bad day, both Echo and Jesse were really sick and didn't have a whole lot of good days so they both were euthanized on a bad day. I was really young when we've had to put our other past dogs to sleep so I'm not sure what my family did...