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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
Good goddess! What a horrible death for the dog, MAStudent. And that must have been awful for all of you, too, since your dad had hoped to quickly and painlessly kill the dog so he or she didn't die slowly from tumors and possibly painful cancer.
How did your dad react? Did he wish then that he had taken the dog to the vet who could have quickly and painlessly ethanized her by lethal injection, or perhaps have recommended letting nature take its course? Death by old age is not always painful.
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It wasn't the first or last time he had to kill a dog he loved.
In the country, dogs encounter things like porcupines
http://blackramfarm.files.wordpress....orcupine-1.jpg
that they try to bite and get the quills stuck all inside their mouth and head
http://therealsouthkorea.files.wordp...cupine2_sm.jpg
wild hogs that rip them up/ gut with their tusks. Boars/ hogs are smarter than dogs, and up to 800 pounds or so
http://www.bigtusks.com/a-images/Boar2b.jpg
or bad people that try to poison them.
You could pay a vet a lot to kill them, but you might as well do it yourself. It is usually quick and as painless as possible to shoot an animal in the head, this time it just went wrong. The vet can make mistakes, too, you would just never know about it.