critter diseases

[glatt]

Originally Posted by lookout123

i don't know what the cost is for a hamster but i know that for a 40lb dog i paid well over $250.
even if it is $20... it was a $4 hamster. try to make it comfortable, but come on.

Holy crap! $250! I had no idea it was that expensive. We have an old cat that's gonna need it soon. I better start looking into this so I don't get ripped off like that. That's highway robbery.

The home euthanization technique posted earlier was just for rats, hamsters etc. I wonder if there's a way to do cats?

[Brigliadore]

Originally Posted by glatt

The home euthanization technique posted earlier was just for rats, hamsters etc. I wonder if there's a way to do cats?

Yeah, take it down to your local humane society. They will usually do it for $20 or $30. Call them first to find out about what time they do it each day so your cat doesn't sit in a kennel all day scared shit less because the dogs don't stop barking.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by glatt

Holy crap! $250! I had no idea it was that expensive. We have an old cat that's gonna need it soon. I better start looking into this so I don't get ripped off like that. That's highway robbery.

The home euthanization technique posted earlier was just for rats, hamsters etc. I wonder if there's a way to do cats?

i checked it out and that was actually a fairly decent price. that does include disposal of the body though. they don't exactly let you walk out of there with your dead pet. i couldn't have done it anyway, i was too heartbroken - the best damn dog i ever had. and on that note does anyone want this EFFING boxer my wife got me to replace him?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

The home euthanization technique posted earlier was just for rats, hamsters etc. I wonder if there's a way to do cats?

Paint an American flag on it and mail it to Iraq.
I've a feeling the price a vet would charge would be dependent on whether you were a regular or dropped in from nowhere. Certainly a syringe of the blue juice isn't that expensive. I've seen a vet come out to the car and do it for a large dog.

[garnet]

Originally Posted by lookout123

i don't know what the cost is for a hamster but i know that for a 40lb dog i paid well over $250.
even if it is $20... it was a $4 hamster. try to make it comfortable, but come on.

You paid $250 to have 40 lb. dog put to sleep? You got ripped off.

A few months agoI had to take my very old, sick cat in to the emergency vet to be put down. It was on weekend and in the evening. Even at the emergency vet (which are notorious for ripping people off) it cost me less than $100.

[jane_says]

Garnet - yes, I think snapping an animal's neck, as you so poetically put it, is more humane than letting an animal suffer. I wouldn't do it myself because of the "ick factor". I could probably stitch up my kids' cuts when they get hurt, but I'm not going to. Dead is dead, and unless you're torturing an animal, I don't see any reason to wait for a more clinical death if other options are available in the present.

FWIW, I have worked closely with our local humane society, and I have taken calls from people who wanted to have a sick or injured animal put down. I know that here it takes several days to get help with anything. The staff is entirely made up of volunteers, and none of them are vets. I have taken calls on Friday and found them undelivered on Monday. We have one 24 hour emergency pet clinic and they normally won't even answer the phone - you have to drive there and see if anyone's around.

I have a feeling I'm getting into more than I should, discussing animal issues with a PETA employee.

[garnet]

Originally Posted by jane_says

Garnet - yes, I think snapping an animal's neck, as you so poetically put it, is more humane than letting an animal suffer.

Did I say you should let the animal suffer?

Like I said, according to the HSUS (and PETA, too, by the way) the ONLY acceptable way to euthanize an animal is by lethal injection. Snapping an animal's neck, is, according to any animal organization, a CRUEL and unacceptable method of euthanasia. In some places you could actually be charged with cruelty to animals by doing it.

It really frustrates me how many people state that they love their pets so much yet they are too cheap or too lazy to bother taking them to a competent vet for proper treatment. If you can't afford or have no interest in providing proper veterinary care for your pets, you shouldn't have pets in the first place. You'll spend $50 at the Red Lobster for dinner without thinking twice about it, but you think that's waste to spend on an animal's euthanasia. Bizarre.

Originally Posted by jane_says

I have a feeling I'm getting into more than I should, discussing animal issues with a PETA employee

Yeah, you probably are getting in over your head, because you obviously don't seem to know very much about veterinary care and human methods of euthanasia.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by garnet

Yeah, you probably are getting in over your head, because you obviously don't seem to know very much about veterinary care and human methods of euthanasia.

Wow, garnet. That was positively abrasive and obnoxious.

Tell the truth. You're originally from NYC aren't you?

[garnet]

Originally Posted by dar512

Wow, garnet. That was positively abrasive and obnoxious.

Tell the truth. You're originally from NYC aren't you?

You know, dar, I actually found this to be just a tad bit more "abrasive and obnoxious":

Originally Posted by jane_says

Oh, and I forgot.

Bruce is right. You're a fucking asshole.

And check out Sycamore's "fucking idiot" comment in the other thread.

But that's OK, right? They use four-letter words to insult me, and I'm "abrasive and obnoxious."

[wolf]

Originally Posted by garnet

Yeah, you probably are getting in over your head, because you obviously don't seem to know very much about veterinary care and human methods of euthanasia.

I know many things about human euthanasia.

I could do a seminar ...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by garnet

Like I said, according to the HSUS (and PETA, too, by the way) the ONLY acceptable way to euthanize an animal is by lethal injection. Snapping an animal's neck, is, according to any animal organization, a CRUEL and unacceptable method of euthanasia. In some places you could actually be charged with cruelty to animals by doing it.

This kind of rant is exactly what turns people off to PETA.

[garnet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

This kind of rant is exactly what turns people off to PETA.

Awww Bruce, that hurts my feelings...I'm crying. And I doubt PETA really cares about how people like you feel about them.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by garnet

Awww Bruce, that hurts my feelings...I'm crying. And I doubt PETA really cares about how people like you feel about them.

Bruce is a pretty open minded individual, when you write people like him off, you doom your organization to failure.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by garnet

Awww Bruce, that hurts my feelings...I'm crying. And I doubt PETA really cares about how people like you feel about them.

But that doesn't stop them from asking for my money, repeatedly.

[jane_says]

By saying the only proper thing to do is take an animal elsewhere to be euthanized, in my area, you are most certainly saying it should be allowed to suffer. Did you read any of what I said? About working for our humane society, and taking a very long time to get any response? Furthermore, since when did the HSUS and PETA become sole arbiters of decency and kindness? Oh wait! They haven't. Now I remember.

And for your information, I have never spent $50 at Red Lobster, because I have never eaten there. I don't eat at chain restaurants. I will thank you to keep your silly generalizations to yourself. You have no idea what my priorities are. If I could keep an animal alive and healthy through veterinary care, I would. But paying to have a hamster euthanized, when it will die very shortly anyway, is ridiculous.

Anyway, as a PETA employee, shouldn't you be railing against people keeping pets at all, rather than for medical intervention? As for being in over my head, well, you know what they say about opinions.

This thread has been hijacked beyond recognition, and out of respect to the OP, I'm backing out of it. Again, sorry to hear about the hamster.