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I hope you're not a livestock farmer.This is a photo from a clip showing a hunt (Duke of Beaufort's Hunt) shooting hounds that are 'to old to hunt anymore. What a sick bunch of evil pricks these scum are.View attachment 990309
I hope you're not a livestock farmer.This is a photo from a clip showing a hunt (Duke of Beaufort's Hunt) shooting hounds that are 'to old to hunt anymore. What a sick bunch of evil pricks these scum are.View attachment 990309
Retirement doesn't last forever. Then what do you do?Thankfully old gun dogs retire in front of the aga.
I’ve never been more miserable than when having had to put a good dog to sleep. I still feel the loss of dogs keenly, sometimes years later.
It’s not nice to watch, and it was foolish to be allowed to be filmed, but if you’re in the business of killing animals for a living which many of us are, then you have to tread very carefully when criticising others who do the same.
Farmers are NOT in the business of killing animals for a living.
You sound like a Vegan activist with comments like that.
When the time came for my dog we got the vet to come to the house. As for other methods, as shown on this thread, I see nothing wrong with it as long as it's quick and painless. When you see what some of us have to put up with in our final days I think most of us would prefer a less traumatic end.I took one to the vet to get put down, never again.... the old girl knew. I've put a few dogs down in my time. It's a thing that stays with me a day or two afterwards, but I always make sure they never see it coming. There's nothing like a dog to break your heart.
I sent 25 lambs to slaughter last Tuesday. I sent 40 the week before and probably another 30 or so in a fortnight. Plus another 60 or so in the new year. There will be a trailer full of cull ewes going on Monday.Farmers are NOT in the business of killing animals for a living.
You sound like a Vegan activist with comments like that.
You haven't been farming for long enough if you haven't had to shoot your own cat.
Of course it's not nice but if it's in agony what else are you supposed to do?
I don't see that as any different to what they do with spent fox hounds.
Argue against that and you argue against all of livestock farming.
It's the one's who keep old animals alive in goodness knows what pain that I take issue with. They keep them alive for their own emotional needs rather than the animals welfare, spending more on treatment than would save a refugee. Immoral.
Farmers are NOT in the business of killing animals for a living.
You sound like a Vegan activist with comments like that.
Farmers are NOT in the business of killing animals for a living.
You sound like a Vegan activist with comments like that.
When the time comes for an old dog I get the vet to come out to farm. They give it an injection to calm and sedate then a short while after give them another to kill them. No stress at all to the dog and you have time to say your farewelllsFriend of mines small animal nurse and says that’s the worst thing to do they have to try calm a dog who is usually well worked up either because they don’t like the vet or because the person who’s dropped them off has been upset and the dogs pick up on that we took our house dog the vet years ago big wolfhound took three jabs to find a vein then she took five mins to sleep sicked and pee'd I don’t think she was in pain but wasn’t relaxed and for me never again quick shot in there own environment when they never see it coming is the right thing to do you owe them that