"Inhumane" Treatment of Animals

[kurious]

Thank you, everyone, for you great suggestions.

[KarlGrenze]

@Lynn_Bodoni

I think that being in stress from pain will delay the healing, but that’s just my layman’s opinion.

IIRC, that was also one of the reasons given for administering pain meds. And yes, offering pain medications after desexing (or any other type of surgery) is much more common now than even 10 years ago, not to mention 20 years ago.

[Corcaigh]

I wouldn’t want to stand around in a field in all weathers

I wouldn’t want to stand in a stable 22 hours a day with no form of entertainment

I wouldn’t want someone to decide when I have offspring, whom the father will be, nor forced to have sex with him (IIRC there was a group of people trying to get stud farms shut down because they were ITO “legalised rape”)

Shoes nailed to my feet, even if they don’t match my outfit?!
For the most part, the horses don’t seem to mind, although I’m on the fence with the whole taking your mare to a stallion carry on

[Bozuit]

@Eve

Keeping birds in cages and fish in bowls.

Whether or not that’s harmless is up for debate.

[coffeecat]

Someone here once pitted some animal-rights fruit loop who was harassing him for leaving his Samoyed outside in the middle of winter.

[Quasimodem]

I was sent this on my FB page last night. Every like and share provides one dollar for this little guy’s surgery.

Thanks

Bill

[Quasimodem]

I meant that the American Humane Society will provide the money.

Q

[Dissonance]

@Elendil_s_Heir

I would not want to be leashed and led around outside.

Get with the times already.

[Enola_Gay]

@Lynn_Bodoni

It seems to be more common for vets to offer this option, for spay/neuter and other problems. In the last few years we’ve adopted 3 cats, and we were offered pain management after the desexing for all of them. One of the boys is prone to UTIs, and each vet (two emergency vets and his regular vet) has offered pain meds for each episode. We always opt for the pain management, by the way. I think that being in stress from pain will delay the healing, but that’s just my layman’s opinion.

It was always my understanding that pets were not given pain meds after surgery because they would (e.g) walk on newly set broken leg, chew out the sutures of a newly stitched wound, etc. That’s how my vet explained it to me anyway. If the pet doesn’t feel pain, is there some other way to prevent it from doing these harmful things?

[Chronos]

I feed our cats little bits of raw chicken when we have chicken for dinner. They get raw chicken because most cooked foods in our house contain onions, garlic, or both, neither of which are OK for cats to have.

For that matter, I wouldn’t dream of denying garlic or onions to a human. Or chocolate.

[Lynn_Bodoni]

@Enola_Gay

It was always my understanding that pets were not given pain meds after surgery because they would (e.g) walk on newly set broken leg, chew out the sutures of a newly stitched wound, etc. That’s how my vet explained it to me anyway. If the pet doesn’t feel pain, is there some other way to prevent it from doing these harmful things?

I don’t know about broken legs, but stitches ITCH. Just about every female cat that I’ve ever had has removed her own spay stitches. I think that one cat didn’t. I’ve had a hysterectomy myself (with the abdominal incision), and I had a hard time restraining myself from tearing out the staples (I got stapled shut). Painkillers seem to relieve the itch as well as the pain.

[Enola_Gay]

@Lynn_Bodoni

I don’t know about broken legs, but stitches ITCH. Just about every female cat that I’ve ever had has removed her own spay stitches. I think that one cat didn’t. I’ve had a hysterectomy myself (with the abdominal incision), and I had a hard time restraining myself from tearing out the staples (I got stapled shut). Painkillers seem to relieve the itch as well as the pain.

Now that I’m thinking about it, I suppose you could put one of those cone-like collars on a pet to keep them from chewing out the stitches. Not sure how you;d keep a pet from walking on a bad leg, though, unless they felt the pain.

Cats are unpredictable because I’ve had 2 females and neither one chewed out her spay stitches. Go figure. And for some reason, I’m getting a visual of you chewing on your hysterectomy incision…

[Bozuit]

@Enola_Gay

It was always my understanding that pets were not given pain meds after surgery because they would (e.g) walk on newly set broken leg, chew out the sutures of a newly stitched wound, etc. That’s how my vet explained it to me anyway. If the pet doesn’t feel pain, is there some other way to prevent it from doing these harmful things?

As far as stitches go, putting a lampshade on their head seems to be the thing to do.

[KarlGrenze]

@Enola_Gay

It was always my understanding that pets were not given pain meds after surgery because they would (e.g) walk on newly set broken leg, chew out the sutures of a newly stitched wound, etc. That’s how my vet explained it to me anyway. If the pet doesn’t feel pain, is there some other way to prevent it from doing these harmful things?

Elizabethan (E-) collar (the lampshade things) will keep the animal away from sutures. As for the second part, that’s where “owner participation and compliance” comes into play. The owner restricts the animal’s movements (place in a cage, controlled leash walks, restricted to a run or cage). Also some pain killers can also be sedatives (or combined with them), so the animal will be chilling and relaxed instead of in completely running crazy mode.

[Der_Trihs]

Putting your entire community in a box. Especially when you have to dig your own tunnels without tools.