should expose their children to witnessing the "miracle" of life by watching a live
animal birth. How callous and thoughtless. Animals are like us - they want privacy at
such a private moment and not being subjected to gawking children and parents.
One very wise animal rescuer commented on this and said - then they should also show
them the reality of death -horrible places in the recent past where surplus dogs and
cats were killed by being placed in gas or decompression chambers. While thankfully,
some cities have instituted the use of painless lethal injections as a humane way to end
an unwanted animal life, sadly there are still way too many towns and cities across our
nation which still use cruel and archaic means to put their animals down.
I'm not sure when veternairian hospitals came into being. But interestingly
enough, I just found a yellowed article from the now defunct Cleveland Press
which featured a pet column by Max Riddle. Probably written in the 70's or 80's,
the article addressed the need to spay or "castrate" our pets. Yes, "castrating"
sounds like an "ouch" word, so I'm glad it has been surplanted with the word
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