EUTHANASIA – IS IT NECESSARY?
Introduction
In recent years, euthanasia of pets such as cats and dogs have become more prominent in the lives of the general public. We are now seeing posts on social media that cry out for our help to end the euthanizing of dogs and cats in shelters in the nation. A specific post may come to mind; the one where euthanizing dogs are lined up in the hallway of a shelter, those dogs being the ones euthanized only that day.
Earlier this month, a lady by the name of Vanessa took her female pit bull, Patty, to the Petersburg, VA Animal Shelter hoping to help give her dog a better life by the possibility of adoption or the shelter would find a rescue agency to take her and at the last resort possibly euthanizing Patty. The next morning Vanessa “had a change of heart” (WRCI Nexstar Broadcasting Inc., 2017) and when back to the animal shelter to bring Patty home only to find that she had already …show more content…
N. (2003, May). Improving the Nation’s Animal Shelters: A Path to No-Kill (Honor's thesis). Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
Fennell, L. A. (2003, August). Killing With Kindness: An Inquiry into the Routinized Destruction of Companion Animals. Between the Species, 13(3). doi: 10.15368/bts.2003v13n3.4
Frank, J. (2004, February) An Interactive Model of Human and Companion Animal Dynamics: The Ecology and Economics of Dog Overpopulation and the Human Costs of Addressing the Problem (pp. 107-130) Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org
Kure, J. (2011, September). Euthanasia – The “Good Death” Controversy in Humans and Animals. Retrieved from http://nphf.nl/footage/fm/File/Euthanasia_-__The____Good_Death____Controversy_in_Humans_and_Animals.pdf#page=247
Slaybaugh, P. (2017, March 8). Petersburg woman devastated after dog killed an hour after she surrendered it to shelter. WRIC, Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. Retrieved from http://wric.com/2017/03/07/petersburg-
Introduction
In recent years, euthanasia of pets such as cats and dogs have become more prominent in the lives of the general public. We are now seeing posts on social media that cry out for our help to end the euthanizing of dogs and cats in shelters in the nation. A specific post may come to mind; the one where euthanizing dogs are lined up in the hallway of a shelter, those dogs being the ones euthanized only that day.
Earlier this month, a lady by the name of Vanessa took her female pit bull, Patty, to the Petersburg, VA Animal Shelter hoping to help give her dog a better life by the possibility of adoption or the shelter would find a rescue agency to take her and at the last resort possibly euthanizing Patty. The next morning Vanessa “had a change of heart” (WRCI Nexstar Broadcasting Inc., 2017) and when back to the animal shelter to bring Patty home only to find that she had already …show more content…
N. (2003, May). Improving the Nation’s Animal Shelters: A Path to No-Kill (Honor's thesis). Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
Fennell, L. A. (2003, August). Killing With Kindness: An Inquiry into the Routinized Destruction of Companion Animals. Between the Species, 13(3). doi: 10.15368/bts.2003v13n3.4
Frank, J. (2004, February) An Interactive Model of Human and Companion Animal Dynamics: The Ecology and Economics of Dog Overpopulation and the Human Costs of Addressing the Problem (pp. 107-130) Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org
Kure, J. (2011, September). Euthanasia – The “Good Death” Controversy in Humans and Animals. Retrieved from http://nphf.nl/footage/fm/File/Euthanasia_-__The____Good_Death____Controversy_in_Humans_and_Animals.pdf#page=247
Slaybaugh, P. (2017, March 8). Petersburg woman devastated after dog killed an hour after she surrendered it to shelter. WRIC, Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. Retrieved from http://wric.com/2017/03/07/petersburg-