Are you kiddin me?

[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.

[jennielynn1970]

Sad to say, but sometimes, with farm life, that's just the views that farmers have of the animals. My great grandmother was heartless in my eyes, but she just never formed a bond with the animals on the farm, because some day, she might have to do something like this person did.

I don't advocate it. I couldn't do it. And I was not a fan of my great grandmother either. She was abrasive and mean, and spit tobacco through her front teeth!! She was in her 70's and 80's during the time I knew her.

[Catty1]

Farm life - you do it with the tools at hand; likely seems a waste of gas money to drive however far you need to in order to get to AC. If they even really know about AC.

It would take a lot of money, but sure would be nice to have a lot of info booths or mobile info vehicles for rural events.

[Taz_Zoee]

I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but my dad has done this with a couple rabid cats we had when I was little. I didn't ask questions, I was too young. But I did know what was going on.
He could never do anything like that now. One of my sister's GSD's was practically dead out in the kennel and he couldn't even bring himself to go get him to take him to the vet to be PTS. My brother had to do it.
As a side note: I also do not care for my father. I do not agree with his ways, on several different topics. So to me, that's just the way he WAS.
As others stated, we do not really know the entire story. And it is obviously a child who wrote it. Either way it is a very sad thing.
RIP Sadie. You did live a long life.

[lizbud]

And I was not a fan of my great grandmother either. She was abrasive and mean, and spit tobacco through her front teeth!! She was in her 70's and 80's during the time I knew her.

Sounds like she would fit right in at "Thursdays Cyber Bar"

[jennielynn1970]

Sounds like she would fit right in at "Thursdays Cyber Bar"

I don't think you'd want her there either.

My dad remembers how she treated hunting dogs. He was raised by her, not his mom, and he had a little beagle that he loved and took hunting with him when he was young.

Well, the beagle didn't like her, and one day it was walking by her, stopped and peed on her leg. She shot the beagle. She was a nasty old lady.