Understanding Convenience Euthanasia: A Delicate Topic in Pet Care
Before we begin…
This is an extremely difficult subject to explore and reducing it to a binary of good/bad is not helpful. The intention, here, is to open an exploration of perspectives. Around 66% of US households identify as having a pet - that’s about 87 million American families (Insurance Information Institute, 2023), and all of those families have adopted or purchased a pet for their own reasons. At some point, almost all of those families will need to say “goodbye” to their animal. This is not coming from a place of judgement.
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A brief discussion of the challenges of in-home euthanasia for veterinarians