In the tale of Mice and Men, Candy's dog gets by one of his friends, Carlson. Candy's dog should have been killed.“Can't eat, can't see, can't walk without hurtin’.” Was what Carlson had pointed out. The dog was too old and in too much pain. However, Candy oversaw the struggles and pain the dog had and was suffering. It would have been better to have him dead than alive and to go through another day and suffer. It shouldn't be Candy who kills the dog. He wouldn't be able to do it or would later regret ever having done it. Candy was better off having someone else kill his dog rather than doing it himself. Although, he let it happen, he knew deep down it was the right thing to do. “No I couldn do tha’. I had ‘im too long.” This was the response