When many pet friends see that their dog has an incurable disease, they think of euthanizing the dog when they see the dog's painful expression and moaning. This approach is different. Pet friends have different opinions, and what are the methods of pets euthanasia, can these methods really make dogs die without pain?
How to euthanize pets?
1. Injection of potassium chloride: use 10% potassium chloride injection at 0.3 to 0.5 per kilogram of body weight Rapid intravenous injection of milliliters causes instantaneous hyperkalemia. High concentrations of potassium ions can lead to conduction block of the heart, weakened contractility, and finally inhibit the myocardium, resulting in sudden cardiac arrest and death. This method only shows very short-term muscle rigidity and then floppy death.
2. Oral sleeping pills: Oral sleeping pills make sick pets sleep, and then inject central anesthetics with respiratory depression. The anesthetics here usually refer to some powerful sedative drugs that can cause suffocation. Injecting a powerful anesthetic suppresses the respiratory system of the sick pet, which eventually stops breathing and dies.
3. Inject coagulant: first let the sick pet sleep with anesthesia, and then inject coagulant to block the vein. The mechanism of action of coagulants is mainly to act on the coagulation factors of blood proteins in the animal body, causing blood coagulation, forming thrombus, causing blood vessel obstruction, blocking blood flow, and causing the death of sick pets.
What is the public's attitude towards pet euthanasia?
1. Opposition: There is an old saying in China that it is better to die than to live. After all, pets are also a life, and we humans have no right to deprive them of their lives! For some sick dogs and cats with disabilities, what the owner should do is to try his best to save his life instead of ending his life hastily. Many Chinese people who believe in Buddhism have a thought that God has the virtue of good life. Even a dying patient can only help him continue his life as much as possible. How can he help him end his life early! The same is true for pets.
2. Support attitude: any creature has the right to survive, but you have no way of knowing the pet selection. Instead of seeing it in pain, it is better to let him end, and maybe it is also a relief! Relieving a pet from pain is the last love for a pet.
3. Neutral attitude: It is irresponsible for life to euthanize pets hastily, and it is unbearable for us to let pets die in extreme pain. With a responsible attitude towards life, the choice of pet euthanasia should be cautious.