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".
@fesshole Are some people just not capable of building a connection with their pet? How can you see your pet as just a thing to abuse or throw away?
Why do such people get pets? Because it's socially expected? Because they want power over a living being?
I just don't get it.
I would live in a box and split the results of my panhandling with my pup (and hubby ๐) if it came to losing everythinge else. Or at the *very* least, find her a good, loving home with a family able to care for her.