EnviroLink Forum

_________________
lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

_________________
I use red, not because of anger but to define my posts to catch rebuttals latter and it makes the quote feature redundent for me. The rest of you pick your own color.

Life is a time capsule we strive to fill with precious memories.

_________________
I use red, not because of anger but to define my posts to catch rebuttals latter and it makes the quote feature redundent for me. The rest of you pick your own color.

Life is a time capsule we strive to fill with precious memories.

_________________
We do what we must because we can,for the good of all of us....except the ones that are dead.

If it was already in the state of death gasping, then you essentially were hitting an already "out of it" animal. The cat's body had already gone into shutdown, and it had no awareness that it was suffering.

It seems more a case of relieving your daughter's belief that the cat was suffering, and you are to be commended for taking action to ensure her that the cat would no longer be suffering.

As far as it being judged a violent form of euthanasia by you or your daughter, that is ultimately between you and your daughter, as to how she ends up being effected by the "shovel to the head" method itself. I have a hunch, however, that society need not worry that your daughter will become a serial killer, because I have the impression that you deal with realities with your children from a very level-headed standpoint.

otoh, when she's a teenager and you end up grounding her once too often for staying out too late, I'd play it safe and wear a helmet every night when sleeping. Okay...j/k.

_________________
I use red, not because of anger but to define my posts to catch rebuttals latter and it makes the quote feature redundent for me. The rest of you pick your own color.

Life is a time capsule we strive to fill with precious memories.

_________________
lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

_________________
lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

_________________
lately i been thinkin' aunt betty stopped her blinkin'....soon she'll be a stinkin'..........my deceased mother in law speaking of her aunt who had died.

_________________
For every problem there is a solution

_________________
With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein