Fesshole 🧻Jun 26, 2024
Retired vet. Whenever someone brought in a perfectly healthy animal to be put to sleep, I always encouraged it to be done privately in their absence. If they agreed, I secretly sent the animal to some friends who run a rehoming centre. Still charged for the "euthanasia".
Show threadPete

@fesshole I took a German Shepard (my favorite breed of dog) to my vet for euthanasia.

If the kids (4 @ 4-8 years of age) went running the Shephard followed its instinct and "took them down."

The vet tried to talk me out of it. I said "it's just a matter of time before this turns bad."

3 months later I saw that dog with another human pushing a stroller. I was furious! I told the owner the story. HE put the dog down himself.

F*ck any vet who does this!

Jun 26, 2024 at 10:18pmWeb
Show threadPatrick QuinJun 26, 2024

@philpetree "Tech CEO" - why am I not surprised? I say this as a brother-in -law of a veterinarian who rightfully put down an elderly dog that developed problem behavior around her children that could not be resolved: Hope you treat those who work for you better than your non-human family members, and trust the guidance of experts rather than simply disposing of them.

Not to mention what the other (barely) human did was likely highly illegal, if I am understanding you correctly and he took matters into his own hands rather than also bringing the dog to a vet.

Show threadTexty the BardJun 26, 2024
@philpetree @fesshole Your inability and unwillingness to properly train your dog is not the dog's fault.
Show threadSteveMBJun 27, 2024

@philpetree @fesshole "The vet tried to talk me out of it."

Wherever *do* veterinarians get the notion that they know more about animals than some random guy that wandered in off the street...?