(10-19-2014, 01:47 PM)Danyel72 Wrote: I am not a doctor and I don't know specifics but I think they did the right thing in this case. Believe me, I think it was extremely sad for the dog. I never like to see a pet be put to sleep, but if he did have the disease and this was the only course of action it needed to be done.
I don't think it would be fair to make a dog, or any pet, live in quarantine for the rest of his life. I know I would never chose this option and I am sure the dog wouldn't either. I just hope and pray for us and the animals that we can get a handle on this horrific situation.
Danyel
I agree with you - and much as we love our pets at the end of the day if is a choice between human lives and pet lives human lives have to come first (although I know some people may disagree with that and there are definitely some individual humans I would save any number of pet lives over)
Living in quarantine for their whole life would be unacceptable - and what if the quarantine failed? Chances are over time the people caring for them would relax and possibly miss a precaution out and then you have the disease back in the human population.
It tears my heart but I cannot see what else can be done. Hopefully research will ascertain whether the disease will live in dogs and other pets and it will be discovered if the danger is real or not.
