Puppy going blind and getting stiff legs

[we3beagles]

Good on you Horseman. I am so glad your pup is feeling better and thank you for doing all you could to ensure that. I think it is really easy for city people to sit back sometimes in condemnation of farm folk and their apparent cruel ways and forget that the clothes they wear and food they eat encourage more cruelty than any rancher, farmer, etc... It is difficult to imagine killing anything for food or out of necessity when you have never had to. What about a coyote that is eating the chickens that provide you with breakfast. Are you not supposed to shoot it. Where does the line blurr. Does a suburban housewife not kill a moth that inadvertantly ventures into the house?

[doggirl]

Why do you assume that people who asked questions about the skunk are from the city?

[Prin]

Originally Posted by we3beagles

Does a suburban housewife not kill a moth that inadvertantly ventures into the house?

No, we trap it in our cusped hands and set it free outside. (not that I'm a wife or anything, but that's what I do- no need to kill things unnecessarily. We're also in their home, you know.)

[chico2]

Same here,I've been known to apologize to bugs,if I accidentally vaccum them up No killing of moths here!!!

[we3beagles]

The point was he did what was necessary to save his dogs life. If he hadn't killed it and taken it to the vet like he was supposed to he would instead be receiving flack for not doing everything he could. I never said you were or weren't city people. I simply stated that our (mine included) urban lifestyles have become so santized that we can no longer identify with a hunter gatherer lifestyle. I cannot bear the thought of killing my own dinner, but I still eat chicken.