But in fact those who work to reduce
animal suffering rarely have such matters in mind.
Not exact matches
Euthanasia is used
rarely and only as a final resort when it has been medically determined that an
animal is
suffering from a medical condition that is untreatable to allow the
animal to maintain quality of life, or exhibits extreme behaviors that are beyond correction and that are deemed unsafe to other pets, people, and to the
animal itself.
The dog is obviously susceptible as are many specieis of
animals (including cattle, sheep, pigs and wild
animals, etc) The cat very
rarely suffers from clinical Leptospirosis and some feel the cat possesses a species immunity.
Treatment of subcutaneous dirofilariasis has been
rarely reported in cats (Tarello, 2000a - b) although it is suggested for
animals suffering from clinical signs of this disease (Baneth et al., 2002).
Also, human nature
rarely allows someone to sit idly by while an
animal suffers.