[timetraveler]

People, I read the most depressing article that had to do with what I'd call the pure selfishness & cruelty that some people exhibit toward their animal bretheren. It seems that there was this young man who had a perfectly healthy 2 year old Yorky, and before he passed away, he had given orders that his dog be put down so that the dog could be buried with him. Well, the man passed on recently, so his family complied with his final wishes & had the local vet put the dog down. The poor vet tried begging them to let the dog live, but was eventually coerced, more or less, to do the awful deed. Now the poor man is essentially in hiding & won't talk to anyone. Quite frankly, who can blame the man? Myself, I think that there ought to be a law that says that if a person brings in an animal that proves to be perfectly healthy & physically fit, for euthanasia, then the vet should be able to take immediate custody of the animal & have it put up for adoption 30 days after the vet takes custody of the animal.

I was so heartsick after reading the article, as I imagined what the poor dog might have been thinking. Bad enough that the poor thing couldn't understand what happened to it's "daddy", but to be further traumatized because it couldn't understand the reason for it being put down, thinking to itsself, "what did I do wrong? I'm not sick or mortally injured, so why are they doing this to me?"

Like I said, there ought to be a law.