I was at this orientation thing for work today and got into a conversation with a girl that works at a local kennel. She talked fondly of her own pets, 1 cat and 1 dog, and also spoke quite fondly of the pets that were in the kennel... She spoke expecially highly of this cat that had some sort of Japanese name that I won't even attempt to spell. Then she made some comments that got me furious. The coversation went a little like this:

Her:"Yeah, [insert Japanese kitties name here] is the sweetest cat, but he's been in the kennel for a really long time. I know that he hates it there so I'm really happy that it'll all be over for him soon"
Me: "Oh! he's getting adopted? That's great!"
Her: "No, we're just going to free him from kennel life"
Me, confused: "So you're going to release him?"
Her: "No, we're going to put the lucky little guy to sleep"
Me: "WHAT? Lucky? What are you talking about?"
Her: "We're putting him to sleep, you know, so he won't have to be cooped up in a cage any more.."
Me, with disbelief: "So that's it, you're just going to give up on him and kill him?"
Her, oozing with superiority: "No, no sweety, we're just going to give him a little shot and he'll drift off into a happy little sleep. He just won't wake up, don't you know anything about how shelters work?"

Yeah... I'm now at a loss for words...i'll just leave it at that....