[Gpdd] Misc: Other people's feelings for animals

Dawnda Stricklen dawndastricklen at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 24 14:07:09 EST 2005


Hi Shelly

I understand how you feel about no one understanding
about how you feel about your animals. My boss tells
me I have head problems for spending so much on my
guinea pigs health and care. He thought it was alright
for him to take his dog that was going blind to Ohio
State that costs him $2000.00 though.  

I never had any children and my pets are like children
to me. I take on the responsibility of taking them to
the vet for care or to be put to sleep whenever I buy
an animal or take an animal in.

If you shot an animal that was suffering in the head,
it would be fast and painless. I couldn't do it unless
they were screaming in pain though. Before their were
vets, that was the only humane way to put them out of
their misery.
I guess I would do it if one of my guinea pigs were
screaming from gut torsion. I hear that it is horrible
and I would have to drive an hour and a half to put
them to sleep after I got the vet in. I could not take
my animal screaming for hours until they got to a vet.

It would be tremendously hard though.
I, like you, could not shoot a dog that needed put to
sleep after having him for years. 

I had a mouse die from a tumor too. I didn't even know
at the time that you could take a mouse to the vet.
Well, you couldn't around my town. They know farm
animals, cats, and dogs only. 

My family never had extra money, but we would have
eaten less or lived on peanut butter and jelly for a
month if my dog would have needed care. If it took
more than the groceries, then a bill would not have
gotten paid. I get my love of animals from my mother.
Now my Dad would say, "Let nature take it's course and
just let them die on their own."

When God made all the animals, He said that he was
putting us over them to take care of them. That is
exactly what I have always done.

Dawnda


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