To be honest, I never trust a vet who suggests to euthanize... it's almost like a culture of laziness and incompetence that has built up around the vet scene. I've seen so many pets that people have owned that vets just put down. It's like it doesn't even matter to them, it's just standard procedure anymore. I mean surely it's not like they all just don't care... it has to be shitty training. It's like a poison even at their very core... I mean jesus, just look at their vet oath...
As a member of the veterinary medical profession, I solemnly swear that I will use my scientific knowledge and skills for the benefit of society. I will strive to promote animal health and welfare, relieve animal suffering, protect the health of the public and environment, and advance comparative medical knowledge. I will practise my profession conscientiously, with dignity, and in keeping with the principles of veterinary medical ethics. I will strive continuously to improve my professional knowledge and competence and to maintain the highest professional and ethical standards for myself and the profession.
What kind of bullshit is that? You know what ours says? "First, do no harm." Well, it doesn't actually say that, but that's the jist of it. Hell, most people don't actually take the oath anymore and there's so many different versions of it that who knows what anyone swore to, but here's a general little nugget...
I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them.
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan
A stark contrast, no?
Any real doctor would be stoned to death if you took your loved one in for a checkup and they suggested to put them down, but a vet? Hell, it seems like that's just what you hear more often than not anymore as the recommended treatment: Death.
It's not their fault though... to be perfectly honest, our veterinarian training is total shit. They have to focus on so many different fields across so many species that it's no wonder our understanding of animal medicine is pathetic at best.
Looking at it as a real doctor though, it's absolutely abhorring and one day we'll look back on these days in terror at the practices we had for animals.
Just look at something as commonly accepted as spaying/neutering your pets. It's absolute barbarism. You know how a human male gets a similar procedure? They get one little tube that carries sperm out their magic wand snipped and that's it. The only consequences is no sperm in the seminal fluid, all hormones intact. Animals? They castrate them... literally just turn the poor animals into eunuchs... For humans it's a crime against humanity. For animals? Standard motherfucking procedure. It's the same for females, rather than tying some tubes they remove the god damned ovaries... These are such completely mindfucking seriously damaging and permanently altering procedures that it's practically insane.
Anyways, I just felt like ranting. I swear, man... I was born centuries ahead of my time. Nobody even sees simple shit like this that is just so obvious to me.
