I remember the time when a very friendly and loyal dog was attacked by an infected animal and contracted a disease which I guess to be rabies. He stayed under the barn for days on end seemingly sulking and unable to move or eat or simply have a life. My grannie had no option but to dispense with the animal by surreptitiously creeping up to him and struck him with an object and that was the sad demise of this particular pet. In reality, consulting the vet on how to administer treatment would not have made much of a difference since rabies is a viral disease and the remedy for such is to vaccinate the dog against it. But in retrospect, I thought it would have made more sense to dispatch the dog humanely like by using strong sleep medications to confer a painless death. Have you ever faced a situation where you had to dispense with a pet?
