As someone else previously mentioned it is not who does the killing, but how it is done. As far as I know there are not laws prohibiting you from putting an animal down, but there are laws against torturing them or treating them inhumanely. For most people it is easier to get the vet to do it or animal control as they do not want to be the one personally doing it. If you are of strong enough character to put your own animals down without doing it for sport (other than hunting) and your intention is to relieve the animal of suffering, then more power to you. I personally could not put my own dogs to sleep. As far as whether eating dog or cat is gross, that is purely an American conception, as most other countries do eat them. Most of the American laws against their consumption came about to protect people from getting their animals stolen to be used for this purpose. We as a society have dictated that eating cats and dogs are taboo. Butchers and meat processing plants are heavily regulated and do use humane methods to destroy the animals they are processing for consumption. What seem like brutal methods to the average person are in fact humane in nature. What makes a process humane is whether the animal has prolonged suffering, like bleeding to death, or dies instantly, as in the case of a gunshot to the head. As far as farm animals are concerned, in my experience, the people put their own animals down due to necessity. If you live 50 miles from the nearest vet and you have a cow suffering in delivering a calf, it is more humane for you to put the aminal down than to wait for the vet to arrive, who will most likely not make it before the animal bleeds to death.
--->Why HUMANE for Vets to KILL, but not ME?
I'm just wondering why it is considered humane when you have a vet kill your animal, but if you kill your animal it's not humane? What is wrong with our society? They are animals, nothing more! We eat cows, dear, lamb, pig, etc... but if we eat a dog or…--->Why HUMANE for Vets to KILL, but not ME?
I'm just wondering why it is considered humane when you have a vet kill your animal, but if you kill your animal it's not humane? What is wrong with our society? They are animals, nothing more! We eat cows, dear, lamb, pig, etc... but if we eat a dog or…...
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