>Cindy R in Maine had the option in the early 80's to do with her
beloved companion what was humane. We no longer have that option. Sure, we can >pay
the vet to do it but it is not as humane to do it with drugs as it is with a
bullet from a 22. I was with a girlfriend of mine when she had her >severely
nevicular QH put down at the vets. He ran in place on the ground for a couple
of minutes. Very hard on my friend. I told her he was just >dreaming
about running without pain. Beccy
Just to put my two cents in
on this---what you saw was a badly done euthanasia, and while that particular instance
may have been less humane than a bullet from a .22 (though I have my doubts a
.22 will reliably do the job consistently on an animal the size of a horse), a *correctly
done* IV euthanasia is very humane indeed. While I haven’t euthanized
thousands of horses, I’ve done maybe a hundred or two, and all of them just
slipped to the ground and at most, took a few big breaths and were gone.
None ran in place. You saw a very bad example of drug-induced euthanasia.
