Mastrogiacomo
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No way in Hell! I don't have the heart...
I had a puppy once that had parvo when we got her. It cost me $200+ and almost a week in the vet's clinic... But she's 9 years old now, and she and my father are inseperable best friends. You "had" to shoot your friend's puppy because the vet wouldn't have put him down if you DID take him...I had to shoot a friend's puppy once, the SOB did not spend the money to get the puppy his Parvo shot. That was really a hard thing to do.
Contrary to apparently popular belief... it doesn't make you a "real man" to "put down" your own animals by blowing their brains out with your .357 magnum! I must sound like a PETA card carrying, mink coat staining liberal right now, but GEEZ that's barbaric... I hunt, I fish, I LOVE to shoot my pistols, but it is not my JOB, my RIGHT, nor my RESPONSIBILITY to kill my dog, or anyone else's dog, in some ill-conceived effort to "end their suffering"!!! I'm sure you're Clint Eastwood, and it's "1 shot, 1 kill" and all that... but in my experiences, animals DON'T always die instantly, even with head shots!If I had to put one of my two down, I would much rather do myself then take them to the Vet and have some stranger do it.