Audioscriptswhen stray dogs form packs and become aggressive or even chase cars and cause accidents. The truly tragic thing is each of these animals
was put thereby a person,
the person who had previously accepted responsibility for that animal. Someone shirked their responsibility and caused immeasurable distress to a creature in their care and great inconvenience to their fellow citizens. In some cases, the strays might be controlled i.e. rounded up and put down, which looks
like a solution for the city, but can hardly be called a solution for the individual animals.
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Speaker 4 PAUSE 2 seconds
What I’m about to say maybe unpopular because,
obviously, as a future small animal vet, my job will be to protect the lives and health of pets. But many times I see people come in
with their beloved dog or cat, which is seriously ill, and they want heroic medical treatment. They want the veterinarian to go to any length to save the animal difficult,
risky operations, chemotherapy, all manner of things. My position is that for the pet this is not usually the best thing. Of course,
they want to live, every living thing loves its life, but they can’t understand that the suffering and pain they’re going through is for that 15 percent chance that they might be cured. For all they can understand, they are being tortured. Sometimes abetter ultimate goal is to minimise suffering rather than prolong life at any cost. PAUSE 3 seconds
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