Root canals for dogs!?

There is a difference between kindness and common sense, which seems to be lacking here. Further, pets get put down gently whereas most humans in the US are still not allowed to be...
 

SeaBreeze said:
I spent over $1,000 way back in the '70s because my dog needed surgery on both of his back knees. We didn't have a lot of money either, but the dog was in pain and needed the operation. I see nothing wrong with spending money on your pets, if they are in need it's your responsibility as a pet owner. In the case of a root canal though, I'd do the same as QS and probably opt for the tooth to be pulled. People who are too selfish to spend their money on their animal's health care shouldn't own any pets, IMO.
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Couldn't agree more SB.... Being completely involved as a family with animals..professionally and personally I absolutely agree with you . I could go on at great length about this subject, but I'll leave it..I think the point has been made succinctly by pet owners on this thread. That being said, I can totally understand Ralphy's point from his own perspective.
 
aaah Ralphy who are you to judge what people should spend their money on? I would rather spend my money on looking after my animals than buying gin.
 

and I quote....."We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
 
Ralphy1 said:
You are probably charter members of PETA...
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For a number of years I was a member of PETA but only quit when we hit a rough patch financially. However I do still speak up for their good work at educating the public on how badly animals are treated and for the good work that they do directly.

Did you know that in their 'home' city, they give away new built and cozy dog houses to neglected, chained back yard dogs every winter? They also run a couple of fully equipped motor homes to go into the disadvantaged communities to do free spay/neuters on the many pets that are owned by the poor. They contact and work with multiple corporations to get them to change the way they handle the tragic animals they slaughter and they do under cover operations to bring to the light of day, the horrendous treatment that elephants get in circus's, labs around the world, dog meat markets in Asia, slaughterhouses in America and farm operations where animals are daily abused. They've also contributed funding to continued research into ways to do medical testing without the use of animals and how to produce real 'meat' without using live animals but in fact to produce that type of protein in an industrial lab situation.

Through the years, they have made a couple of missteps in their communication efforts but without fail, it was not meant maliciously but only and always with the welfare of animals in mind. Ingrid Newkirk who is the President of the organization actually takes one of the lowest wage that I've seen of most charities that I've seen. For example, in 2014 she made $40,000.00. Their financial statements are posted online every year as a matter of fact and an outline can be seen here: http://features.peta.org/annual-review-2014/year.aspx

Their mandate is to educate the public, protect animals by changing laws and hearts and to expose abusers. As far as I can see, there is nothing wrong with any of that.


And Ralph, well-loved pets are put down gently but in many shelters they are thrown in a sealed box, often a dozen at a time, to be gassed where they wind up fighting and hurting each other in their panic to escape or they get what is commonly called a heart-stick which simply means being stabbed in the heart with a huge hypodermic. Gently.....not so much.
 
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I am referring to dog owners that take their dog to a vet to be put down, not pounds...
 
Oh... and I know what else will make Ralphy crazy... I have made provisions in my will for the care of any of my animals that may survive me. How's that Ralphy? lol!!
 
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