Why are people so go forth and multiplyingly useless?

[gus3049]

Some good friends of ours spent their morning helping us collect a trailer tent which we have been given. We will convert it into a standard trailer.

Whilst at their place, we saw a cat the other side of the road that didn't look at all well. I went over to it and basically, it was skin and bones. Apparently it had been fed for while but stopped eating. It was very friendly and wanted a fuss but was in obvious distress. Whilst stroking it, I felt it over just to see how it was and there was a HUGE lump in its throat, which would obviously make it difficult if not impossible to eat. Pretty soon I reckon it wouldn't be able to breathe either.

I asked our friends if they hadn't thought that it might be a good idea to put it out of its obvious misery. Oh we couldn't bear the though of being responsible for killing an animal!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

The poor thing was going to die very soon in pain. I hate killing animals but do it on a regular basis in order to eat. How do they think animals get converted into meat? Someone else does it for you but the effect is the same. So thats OK but seeing an animal suffering and doing something about it isn't.

We took it straight to the vet and sure enough, a giant cancer bought on by the feline version of AIDS. The poor thing would have been hugely infectious to other animals including their dog. We stayed whilst the vet ended the poor thing's life.

A nation of animal lovers.

 

[doorframe]

Well done sir.

Not an easy thing to have done.

I have held all of my cats in my arms while the vets have given them the injection that ended their suffering. And I cried the whole way through, every time. Maybe I'm a softie, but I can't bear to see any animal suffer.

Roy.

 

[Jonzjob]

Gordon, that is a very sad tale, but why am I not surprised by it?

You know my stand on cats, BUT I would not stand by and see one in pain or need. In fact the only cat I have had was a throw out and had been injured in an accident. Sox was what I named her and she was lovely, 4 pure white feet. I found out why she had been thrown out shortly after I had taken her in because I didn't have a cat, but a cat and 6 (SIX) kittens!

She used to team up with our yellow lab, Trixie, and lure other cats into the garden and then they both set about them! Amazing to watch...

I'm not at all surprised to hear what you did and I think it was totally right!

 

[Digit]

It's a rotten job Gordon, what ever species it is.

Roy.

 

[jordec66]

You took the time to do a good deed for an animal in pain , very commendable . You certainly have my admiration.

 

[Sawyer]

Well done for doing the decent thing, Gordon.

 

[kmcleod]

Well done, not many people want to 'do the right thing anymore'

As for people no longer knowing where their food comes from - it amazes me that people seem to have forgotted that pigs = hamburgers, and cows = steak, and that someone has to dispatch the animal.

We've had lots of TV programs in the past couple of years showing people the link, we've even had them showing the end to end process from live animal to meat on a plate, and still people have no fecking idea where their food comes from.

Frustrates the hell out of me that people get all lovey dovey over animals but have no idea about the realities of nature and of farming. I'm sure if they did there might be less casual animal cruelty.

 

[Digit]

Frustrates the hell out of me that people get all lovey dovey over animals but have no idea about the realities of nature and of farming. I'm sure if they did there might be less casual animal cruelty.

Me too! I dropped out of a debate elsewhere 'cos of the lack of knowledge and daft ideas shown by some.
I've just returned from taking my 15 yr old grandson back to Telford, he spent ages looking at cattle and asking questions so basic that I was astonished.

Roy.

 

[Halo Jones]

When I was a teenager I used to volunteer at vets during the weekends and school holidays thinking I might one day be a vet (never happened). I saw a lot but the one thing that has always haunted me was kitten a few months old and the owner had brought it in complaining it smelled. Turns out the poor thing was effectively rotting from the inside out after an infection on it's backside - the owner admitted that they just didn't want to clean the kittens bum and had "never looked closely at that area".
Even the vet was nearly in tears when we put that animal down - needless to say the owners didn't stay to see it done.

 

[Losos]

Gordon, I can only say 'Well Done' as you say in your header some (many) humans are generally useless. I am dreading the day when our two beautiful Newfies are to old to walk and can not eat properly and are in pain from whatever it may be. BUT I hope that I will not prolong the decision to take them out of all that, they have and always will be part of our familly, and I think we owe it to them to see that they depart this mortal coil in a humane way.

 

[Sawyer]

When I was a teenager I used to volunteer at vets during the weekends and school holidays thinking I might one day be a vet (never happened). I saw a lot but the one thing that has always haunted me was kitten a few months old and the owner had brought it in complaining it smelled. Turns out the poor thing was effectively rotting from the inside out after an infection on it's backside - the owner admitted that they just didn't want to clean the kittens bum and had "never looked closely at that area".
Even the vet was nearly in tears when we put that animal down - needless to say the owners didn't stay to see it done.

At least the owners bothered (eventually) to take the poor creature to a vet. There are all too many people who wouldn't even do that much, to end its suffering. Perhaps we need to continue on a happier note :?:
Last autumn, we saved a kitten's life. She was a week old, abandoned in a pile of mouldy straw (I suspect ignorant neighbours had something to do with it), weak, frozen and clearly at death's door. Tried hand feeding with a bottle but she was too weak even to swallow, or meow. I recall my wife's entreaty "Come on.. choose life."
The vet's opinion was 'try if you like, there's nothing to lose, but don't get your hopes up.' Armed with special milk powder and lots of advice, warmth and two-hourly feeds pulled her back from the abyss. Tara is now a regular workshop companion and couldn't be more full of life. Also, fully vaccinated, chipped and spayed.

 

[Hitch]

Reminds me of a story, how true it is i dont know!

Chap, a lorry driver, happily driving along, something ran across the road, he thought he hit it. Pulling in just up the road he got out to have look.
Walked back down the road, and saw a cat layed out on its side by the hedge, legs outstretched, tiny bit of movement. Thinking he had seriously injured it, thought he'd better put it out of its misery, he went to grab a shovel to give it a clout and the cat got up and ran off.....Just as someone a bit further down the road shouted at him about the dead cat in the gutter further back.

Close call!