Are you kiddin me?

[Casper]

Sadly, this happens quite a bit.

Around here it is usually the people in the country(though not everyone, of course!) who put the dog "out of its misery" this way. There is a girl I go to school with, her family breeds BCs(terrible looking ones, at that), and if one falls ill or gets terribly old, this is the method they use. I was appalled, and offered to pay for the vet to put them to sleep in the future, but she refused.

[Freedom]

I didn't click on the link; read enough in the posts to understand the jist of it.

RIP dear one.

[moosmom]

Poor Sadie. How the heck did the jerk who shot her know she didn't suffer???

I hate stupid people.

[boomersooner]

Besides the obvious trauma Sadie endured....the poor girl and her brother...who knows how old that boy was when his father made him help him do that deed....I know I'm reading details we don't know to be true, but I imagine the dad made the boy help.....sheesh.....

[Suki Wingy]

I am assuming the brother was an adult since the writer mentions he lived away from home.

That is a rather archaic way of dealing with things. I wonder if they really did feel a gun shot was painless, unless it was at point blank in the head. Still, why would you do that with children around?

[boomersooner]

I am assuming the brother was an adult since the writer mentions he lived away from home.


I didn't read the whole thing because it sickened me....but if they had the dog for 15 years, both siblings were raised with her....just a mentality I don't understand......

[Catty1]

It was over 40 years ago...on my grandma's farm near Plumas Manitoba, many of the cats came down with distemper. Dad was asked to dispatch them.

The closest vet would have been 3 hours away at that time.

Dad loved cats - but he also knew when a case was hopeless. The only blessing is that he had been a member of the RCMP for many years, so the poor kitties never knew what hit them.

Rounding up the sick semi-ferals at the time and trying to take them 3 hours to Winnipeg...with no carriers...it wasn't a feasible option. However, many do-it-yourselfers do a really crappy job of it.

When I first saw this thread, I thought they had drowned or strangled her, which would have been horrific. I just read the linked story and I agree with how they did it - as long as it was true she died instantly.

This is the AC in Sierra Vista: http://www.ci.sierra-vista.az.us/cms...=78&Itemid=206

No mention of the charge for euthanasia, if there is one - or how far away it is from where this family lives.

RIP Sadie. No more pain.

ETA: The children were in the barn.