# Would you kill your pets in order to stop the spread of ebola (hypothetical)?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 16, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-kill-your-pets-in-order-to-stop-the-spread-of-ebola-hypothetical/701521 "2014-10-16T19:43:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-kill-your-pets-in-order-to-stop-the-spread-of-ebola-hypothetical/701521/41 "2014-10-19T02:14:33Z")

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My pets only see me. Literally. They don’t go out at all. So they are far less likely to be infected than I am.

So, no.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-kill-your-pets-in-order-to-stop-the-spread-of-ebola-hypothetical/701521/42 "2014-10-19T04:08:18Z")

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You gotta go through me first.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-kill-your-pets-in-order-to-stop-the-spread-of-ebola-hypothetical/701521/43 "2014-10-19T04:40:44Z")

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I’d kill it in a heart beat. The girlfriend … not so much.

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**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-kill-your-pets-in-order-to-stop-the-spread-of-ebola-hypothetical/701521/44 "2014-10-20T02:29:59Z")

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They can have my dog only after they off all the other dogs on the street.

That’d give me enough time to sedate my dog and pass him off as a stuffed animal.

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