I had a lab that was 12 years old, i had it since i was 7 and about 6 months ago he started having trouble breathing so we took him to the vet. the vet gave him some medicine and said he probably had another year. Well i picked him up on the way home from school and as soon as i got him home he had some kind of attack, I had to watch the hole thing, knowing i couldnt help him. I also had to wait an hour before anyone else came home. that was one of the hardest things ive ever done
Ive had the same dog for 9 years. I would hate to ever have to put her down. My dog is a beagle, and luckily beagles outlive most other dogs. Their avergage lifetime is 15-17 years .
cson, My cat just shredding my leg a few weeks ago because of a dog we were dog-sitting. I was pretty convinced my leg would stop bleeding. Thought never occured to stop the cat's breathing. Couldn't you have declawed the cat, instead of killing it.
cson, some cats do that. you picked it. you raised it. you declaw it, if it's too much, or let someone else declaw it. I'm sorry. I think you made a completely unnecessary decision to euthanize a cat.
Listen man...I had a cat like that. We didn't euthanize and he just kept attacking neightborhood kids. Sometimes declawing isn't an option. What if this cat was want to get outside from time to time. It isn't the easiest thing to stop. Looking back on it our cat was a potential legal problem. We should have been responsible to our neighbors and put the cat down as he was overly aggressive. I'm also fairly certain that c-son didn't come on here to be bashed for making a difficult decision.
HeyP is right. I find it terribly ironic in a very dark sense that this thread is labelled "If you've ever truly loved a pet" and is about killing one instead. I have scars from our cats and would never even dream of killing them for it. Declawing wasn't even an option; I knew what I was getting into and accept the painful with the good. What a sad story...
You can't possibly know what that cat was really like from a BBS post about it. Were that cat to have bitten or scratched somebody else it could result in a lawsuit...possibly causing homeowner's insurance to be dropped...plus the city would have put the cat down. I promise you that cson did it a lot nicer than the city would have. That's just my guess though...
Thanks Falcon, Ref, and all who've viewd the post & never will reply. I should have known better than to bring real issues here, dealing w/ real emotion, life and decisions. When I am only to be judged an idiot w/o most realizing the years of anguish,tears, vetinary consultation, clinical research, behavior modification techinques and trainings, the years of sleepless nights. Thank you all! I'm going back to Rockets Game Action where I can just mole around or write r****ded feckin' post about "Trading Francis" and "The Importance of Orange Uniforms in 8 easy lesssons."
I don't think that is a correct interpretation of the Hangout. Your judging the forum based on two or three statements that either don't understand what you went through and/or don't believe in what you did. People post their life issues here all the time and, normally, it goes pretty well and everyone is supportive. There are always bad thoughts associated with putting a pet down. I think some of those have elicited responses here with only partial knowledge of what took place over time. I am sorry for your loss. I know that it wasn't easy for you irregardless of whether everyone can agree on the outcome. We all love our pets...almost as if they are human.
A declawed cat can still bite the **** out of you, right? By the way, if cson spent seven years trying to help this cat, he's probably given it the college try. Sorry, man. That sucks.
Sorry cson, but I am not sorry for you. I don't blame your decision, at all, or want to launch guilt...but I am not sorry for you. I am sorry for the euthanized cat, as I am sure you are, too. I didn't post here to bash cson. I posted here to say I have a cat just like his...trust me, I do. I do not view this cat like a "pit bull." It is not the same. For anyone else who has one, I think there are options. Personally, like Dylan, I don't think declawing is an option, either. I try not getting in there way when a dog surprises them. I don't pick my cat up. I don't try to get in the middle or pull the cat away when it's upset. I have on more than one occassion been "attacked" by my cat, when it was freaked out by something and just attacked the whole world. My landlord was "cornered" once, and actually called me to free her??? WTF?? My neighbors generally know to try not to pet it. The only thing I can do with my cat is very aggressively (and quickly) grab it and throw it if it is in a deadlock or being attacked, or I try take out the other animal. It is a rough business these freakish, yet loveable, cats. My philosophy is that I'm here to feed it and rub its head when it wants me to. That's all. If it dies attacking a dog, so be it. But I am not here to entirely control it, nor do I believe it is good thing to try.
Look, if anyone in here has a reason to question a decision like this, it's me. I've got 17 cats and I'd probably FREAK OUT if any one of them had to be put to sleep for any reason. But, Jesus! The guy did what was obviously a very difficult thing for him to do and he's getting the **** beat out of him for it. I mean, heyp, don't you leave your cat outside? There are some who would call you barbaric for doing that. Talk about a lack of sympathy for a guy in a tough spot. Judge not, boys.
