Imagine being shifted from home to home, only to be abandoned by your owner in a shelter. You are considered too old, too ugly or too tempered, and therefore become a case of euthanasia. You are not given a chance to be rehomed or available for adoption, and you die because it is easier for the shelter to euthanize you. According to the Humane Society of the United States, this is sadly the reality for 2.7 million dogs and cats every year, in the USA alone.
There are many reasons for dogs and cats being abandoned in shelters, however most of them link together; Cesar Millan’s website, a dog behaviourist known for the television series ‘Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan’, claims that the most common reasons for dog abandonment is lack of training,
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Nicholas H. Dodman, a veterinary behaviourist at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in Boston, states that the brain structure between humans and cats is similar. Our brains are composed of white and grey matter, and we share similar thinking patterns.
No, a cat and a dog can not intelligence-wise, fully compare to an adult human, but we are biologically similar; If a dog represents the intelligence of a two year old, why is it okay to abandon and euthanise a dog - but not a human child?
The concept of assisted suicide became an international debate in 2008, after Luxembourg legalized physician-assisted suicide. Later the same year, Washington and Montana legalizes the act and joins the list of the three states in the USA where human euthanasia is legal. Reactions were outrageous, as most people consider it ethically wrong to terminate a human being no matter how much the individual suffers. Well here is an ethical argument for you; Assisted suicide was legalized based on the fact that the patient is capable of giving competent consent. If assisted suicide is justified at all, it is not happening in the case of euthanizing small children considering they are unable to give competent