#euthanasia ment

[nevadancitizen]

hey i know this is a bit different from my other posts but my dog just got diagnosed with diabetes. i don’t need money (and please don’t offer it), i just want someone who’s lived with a diabetic dog to tell me what it was like for them.

she’s 13 y/o, a blue heeler mutt mix, ~50 lbs, and the sweetest girl ever. i grew up with this dog and i love her with all my heart. it would absolutely shatter me if anything bad were to happen to her, especially if i could’ve prevented it.

i can afford her insulin, her glucose monitors, special diet foods, and i know how to administer her shots. she is showing signs of cataracts, and her bloodwork is showing possible signs of cushing’s disease. if anyone has lived experience and is comfortable sharing, please feel free to comment/dm me.

please do not recommend i euthanize her. i’ve had this dog since i was six. we grew up together. i literally don’t know a life without her. even if you think it’s best, please keep it to yourself.

thank you for your time <3

[letterfromajax]

Animal death ment

Not to be dramatic or anything but we had to put our guinea pig down a few days ago. He was pushing 7 years old and he was sick. I know I did the right thing because he was no longer eating and he just wasn’t himself, he stopped going to the bathroom the day before the last too.

So we sat in the vet office and I held him in my lap and pet him while he was swaddled in his blanket and I don’t think he was in pain, but he wasn’t really comfortable either. He had a URI of some sort and it was hard for him to breathe and his quality of life just went downhill super fast after I took him to my usual vet initially this Monday. When I pet him he usually purrs, but I don’t think he could because of how snotty he was. And idk typing this is making me sad so I’ll explain the process of euthanasia bc it’s different from dogs and cats

Guinea pigs are pocket pets, meaning that you can’t be in the room with them when they’re being put to sleep. They have small veins, very bad veins, the most humane way to euthanize them is to go through their chest. Of course they are sedated when this happens like all animals are, but I think what’s most upsetting to me is that when the tech came to get him i handed him to her with him wrapped in his blanket because I didn’t want him to go without it and he made noise. He squeaked the way he did when my mom handled him because he didn’t like her and idk why but that is really fucking me up like super bad I really want his remains back I want him back at least with my dog I got to be there with her when it happened but I keep thinking about how scared he must’ve been and it makes me really upset

[endcant]

saw the worst nft on twitter today . text addition is my own

[actaea-p-y]

*Crawls out of my grave to post these*

Good night, everybody.

[Part 1] [Part 2]

[catbreon-draws]

May I ask what a milk band is?

Absolutely you can! :) 

So, baby mice are born pink and fetus-y, and their skin is translucent. You can actually see the outlines of some of their organs and stuff. Most notably, you can see the contents of their stomachs! The milk in their tummies shows up as a patch (or band) of white on their abdomen.

Until their skin becomes more opaque, you can check for milk bands to see whether or not they are nursing successfully. A pinky with no milk band has an empty stomach. Consistently seeing no or very small milk bands means a baby is either unable to nurse because of a health issue or is purposely not being fed by mom, and should either be euthanized or fostered to another nursing doe, depending on the situation.

[peachyteabuck]

stop spanch is the cutest ❤️ the way he looked at you baby, my bunny biscuit passed rather terribly recently, so euthanasia is something i feel strongly about too, if i could’ve offered my biscuit that opportunity i would’ve, and always will, they’re our little hearts who can’t tell you the extent of what they’re going through, at the end of the day your their home so take care of them ❤️❤️

stop i’m crying

he was very very good boy and i would've given him the world

and a dignified end is part of that

[strange-violin-guy]

*talking about a perv teacher*

my mum: I think they should euthanize everybody that attacks kids!

also my mum: *in denial even though by her logic her husband should be euthanized*

[og-doubletrouble-kinnie]

Randy tl bits that came out during rp

I was gonna just leave it at warning tags but no, I’ll stick it under a cut cause my parents were very fucked up. There’s not a lot and nothing is detailed, but please heed the tags

I usually exagerate or make up details for rp purposes but this is one of the few times where the reality is worse than what I could ever make up.

These are legit things my parents would openly talk about in this tl... And why it took me so long to transition. Dallas almost punched my father because of the kinda shit he’d say

I hate that I dont remember much for Randy tl and that most of it is how fucking awful my parents were...

Just

:-(

[kiwisoap]

Hot take but sometimes the thing thats best for an animal's welfare is not to keep it alive.....i feel like the majority of so-called 'animal rights activists' just do what makes THEM feel good and pat themselves on the back for saving an animal's life, when really the most merciful option in many cases is to simply put the animal down to keep it from having to live a life where it's suffering in constant pain. Lots of times the things that are best for animals are not the things that make US feel the best and refusing to acknowledge that does a disservice to all the animals in human care.

[yo-senpai]

I just lost one of my ferrets early Saturday morning (2:40am). I had to have him put down because of a sudden and unpreventable health issue. The real tragedy was that he was only about 2. But the issue would've been extremely painful and would've affected any possible quality of life. But now I'm falling further into a depressive spiral I was already dealing with. Going into work on Saturday sucked really bad. But I had to do what I had to do. I understand I work at a vets office and I've dealt with a lot of very tragic things in my life. That doesn't make this suck any less. Just kinda prepared me for the fact that I was able to make the best decision for him.

[squinko-moved]

i need to be euthanized actually

[danielnelsen]

back from the vet

[thefinalfoongus]

Fishblr question, euthanasia ment

Ive had my betta Molly for a year, and two weeks ago or so I noticed he was pretty bloated, and was staying at the top of the tank. I had assumed constipation and didn't feed him for three days, and after that just fed him brine shrimp. When I noticed no difference, I thought it might be dropsy(there was slight pineconing) I ordered some kanaplex and dosed the tank appropriately, and still nothings changed. He hardly ever moves, just stays at the top of the tank in a corner, and isn't interested in eating, and the bloating seems to mostly be on his right side. I don't think the bloatings gotten any bigger, but he's also not improving, and I don't want him to keep living like that for no reason. Should I euthanize him?

[morphogenetic]

i dunno how to actually talk about this but uhhhhh yeah im putting this under a cut. cw for ment of suicide/depression/death etc, but it's not actually about me personally so don't be worried lmao. also if you can't like this post/acknowledge you read it somehow, im gonna ask that you don't read it. (i get people not being able to do that i just. want to make sure I have some idea of who read this). also can't believe I have to say this but do/n't r/b this

sorry in advance if you're on mobile.

[[MORE]] so my youngest (but older, he's like 34) brother @ ed me in an email that was basically like "this depression treatment isn't working for me and I wish voluntary euthanasia was legal" and like. obviously i don't want him to be in pain. that's obvious

but I also had the realization that I would literally not care if he died. like by this or just generally. and it's not because he's a bad person somehow or anything like that. i just. don't think I would feel anything at all.

and this has been a reoccurring thing where I realize over and over again that I honestly don't think I would strongly care if people close to me died. like I can't say this now bc theyre not my friends for. other reasons but w former friends who I was very close to, even though I very much enjoyed their company, if they randomly died i...don't think I would have been sad? like I would have been sad in a "oh that sucks :(" way but. nothing genuine. and i feel like after a few days I wouldn't really...care any more. hell that would be true when my parents die like. yeah I'd have to sort through everything but I don't think I would really, truly, feel distress and sadness over them dying

am I just a broken human being who literally can't care about other people? is that what this is? bc ive been like this as long as I can remember and. well.

bc im starting to think that people who demonize low-empathy people and call them monsters are right bc clearly? im a fucking monster if I wouldn't even be able to feel sad about my fucking closest friends dying

[mischievousmeh]

cw: animal death(s), euthanasia mention, needles ment, venting

today has been... a day. we had to take our 17 year old mix breed to the vet to be euthanized and it's not been good. the vet clinic itself was also sort of... shitty? they seemed very eager to get us out of the room after they'd given him the shot (and asked several times prior if we would be staying in the room, which we said yes to, but it was the same doctor/nurse asking... when they hadnt left the room with us?) and seemed very cold. i understand having a bad day and not feeling a lot of empathy in that line of work, because it can fuck with your empathy pretty badly, but. it's super insensitive? :/ they bagged him incorrectly as well. he was bagged with a used puppy pad at his face. which. was not where they had put it prior.

and after dealing with them, we were forced to put him in the trunk of our vehicle on the way home when we'd wanted to hold him... :/ and then had to dig out his grave in the front yard between some trees, where there were tons of rocks, and received very little help. it did not help that the entire time my boyfriend's mom (who we live with and who hated our dog and found him "messy and annoying" and forced us to go to that vet just so she could see what year he got fixed in bc it was the same vet he was fixed at) was fake crying and promptly switching to completely fine afterwards and talking about future plans. she's putting up this facade that it deeply hurt her to lose him and being completely emotionless other than on social media and during phone calls. in person she's fine and making plans for what she wants to do with her house and how she wants us to clean it.

we've lost a lot of animals lately... one of our cats, eight chickens during the winter (we keep them as pets but we do have a flock), and now what was essentially the family dog. i don't really want to go into detail about why we had to euthanize the dog, at least not in this post, but i wanted to get this out here somewhere. i dont know who to talk to about it because ive lost contact with most of my friends.

[roidespd-blog]

Chapter Eighteen : LE MARIAGE POUR TOUS

Part Two of the extensively-researched and exhausting journey through France and its Queer citizens through time. As we explored France’s Past with Queer History yesterday, Today is about that very special time of 2012–2013 with the passing of Same-Sex Marriage. Tomorrow, our present and future. In this article, we’ll explore how we came to same-sex marriage, the opposition, the climate of the time and how much of a cunt you are if you ever thought “yeah, now we have same sex marriage, we can chill”.

As most of you must know by now, Same-sex marriage has been legal in France since May 18, 2013. It became the thirteenth country worldwide to allow same-sex couples to marry (out of 28 as of 2019). Unfortunately, even in a country that promotes itself as gay-friendly, it wasn’t an easy fight. And here are the highlights.

With the implementation of the PACS in 1999, the country was somewhat at peace with LGBTQ+ rights. It didn’t last long though. On June 5, 2004, Mayor of Bègles and former Green Party Presidential Candidate Noël Mamère conducted a same-sex marriage ceremony for two men. The Minister of Justice later declared the union null and void. The case went up to the Court of Cassation and the European Court of Human Rights, to zero positive results and Mamère was suspended from his functions.

In 2006, as the PACS was getting more and more rights, a committee on the “Report of the Family and the Rights of Children” argued that marriage, adoption and medically assisted reproduction for same-sex couples were still out of the question.

Flashforward to 2011. While the government was no longer trying to give more rights to LGBTQ+ people (it should be noted that only the L and G were in the public’s mind. Maybe a little L but with even less consideration), LGBT organizations decided to go the Constitutional Council and ask a review of same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. The demand was rejected and the question was send to the Parliament. On June 14th, the Assembly voted 293–222 NO to same-sex marriage. Socialists deputies were “mostly” in favor of the law and just like that, as gay rights were a major player in the 1981 presidential election, the same happened with the 2012 legislative AND presidential campaigns.

2012 AND ITS PROMISES

Power-thirsty candidate François Hollande announced during his presidential campaign his support for same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples. To be fair, Hollande was already a vocal supporter of those rights back in 2004, while his partner at the time, Ségolène Royal, was less into it. Queer people had their cheerleader and, no spoilers here, Hollande won the election on May 6th, 2012. With a absolute majority at the Assembly a few weeks later came a promise of a bill no later than spring of 2013. The first draft was submitted to Parliament on November 7, 2012. And that’s when…

BIGGOT’S SHIT HIT THE FAN

November 17th, 2012 saw the creation a collective called “La Manif’ Pour Tous” (or MPF) as a response to the new government’s plea for same-sex marriage. Made mostly of faith-based associations (37 to be exact), it was founded by Frigide Barjot, Ludivine de la Rochère and Albéric Dumont. Yep, if you feel the need to thank anyone for feeling like a piece of shit back in 2013, those three seem like the main recipients.

I was going to do a portrait of Frigide Bardot but on second thoughts, she’s so not worth it. The self-proclaimed “press manager of Jesus” also created the ‘Collectif de l’Humanité Durable” which campaigns against abortion and euthanasia rights. Her quotes are as intelligent as “Same-sex marriages are like weddings between animals” and she’s a ridiculous person.

So, back to MPF. Did you know that of those 37 organizations, Le Monde found out that 22 of them did not exist or were just “empty shells” associations ? Hmm. Funny, right ? Anyway, on November 17th, the first manifestation is organized. Around 70,000 people took to the street with slogans like “La Famille, Patrimoine de l’Humain”, “Un Papa, un Maman, on ne ment pas aux enfants” or “Le Gender, c’est pas mon Genre”. What a bunch of clever little Jesus Freaks.

A second manifestation is put together on January 13th, 2013. This time, sources talk to close to 340,000 people all around Paris. Marine LePen was there, all smiling and happy. CUNT. A month later, 700,000 signatures were on a petition sent to the Conseil Economique, Social et Environnemental (CESE). The demands of the Manif pour Tous were rejected by the Tribunal Administratif of Paris, which dimmed it invalid, the Cour d’Appel of Paris and finally the Conseil d’Etat.

Third manifestation on March 24th. 300,000 people attended while the Right Party (UMP) joined the march.

On the fourth manifestation on April 21st, only 45,000 people were present, showing a slowing down of the bigoted movement. The Manif Pour Tous was tearing itself apart from the inside, with Frigite Bardot becoming a too crazy-and-permanent presence in the media and a few important organizations leaving the show, like Printemps Français.

Did you know that the Manif pour Tous was still active and is now a political party ? More on that tomorrow.

Nothing about that was funny. More than dramatic, it was a scary time for Queer People as La Manif pour Tous instigated a new rule to the game of life.

THE RIGHT TO HATE

It became apparent in 2013 that parts of the country was liberating themselves from its political correctness that came with the Aids Epidemic et the arrival of the PACS. A report from May 2014 announced a 78% gain in homophobic slurs and attacks in 2013. In total, 3500 cases were reported to the police at some point during the year. A third of those cases were linked to the Manif pour Tous. The media saturation on the subject made it an everyday debate from Monday to Sunday, from the workplace to the dinner table. A Queer person was being attacked every two days, mostly in public places.

Quote from the report “victims consider that the exposure to aggressive rhetorics gave the attackers a sense of encouragement, a feeling of doing the right thing, and favorable impunity when it came to act”. Queer people were forced back in the closet in some way, as just holding your partner’s hand or kissing in public could land you in the hospital.

Example : A lesbian couple in Lyon cuddled on the subway. A young homophobe saw that, called them “disgusting lesbians, whores, sluts, bitches” and hit them both. Example : On April 7th, 2013, the very public bashing of Wildred de Brujin while he was walking with his boyfriend in the streets of Paris (see article “Queer Community vs Violence”). Example : I COULD DO THIS ALL DAY. I, myself, was punched in the face in my car while surrounded by a group of thugs who didn’t like the fact that two guys were in a car talking in their neighborhood. They asked us “What are you doing here?”. We’re talking, what does it look like ? They said “We don’t want people like you around here, fuck off”. What people ? People who talk ? My window was open just enough for one of them to put his fist in my face. I turned the engine on, open the door wild to push them away and ran away. My friend was living on that street and we had to wait at least half an hour before coming back and letting him go home. I was furious. I kept on driving, my hands were shaking. I stopped the car twice. The first time, to calm myself down as I was about to faint from anger. The second time, I leaned over to my friend — who was just a friend — and kissed him for a full minute, tongue and all, and said “At least now, we were attacked for a reason”.

Social Media was full of openly homophobic tweets and Facebook posts. Poetic phrases like “Beeeeeeeeeeurk dans mes amis sur Facebook y’a une gouine”, “#BrulonsLesPD”, “#LesGaysNeSontPasHumainsCar” or “#LaFranceSansGays”. And don’t think for one second that the anonymity of the internet was the main reason for those statements. They were, but it was so bad back then, you would still hear them out loud ON THE FUCKING STREET.

AND THEN IT HAPPENED

On February 2, 2013, The Assembly approved the first article of the bill, legalization of same-sex marriage, 249 to 97. Opponents then introduced more than 5,000 amendments to the bill in order to slow down its passage. By February 12, the bill as a whole won 329–229 and was sent to the Senate. Same story starting there starting April 4th. First article approved 179–157. By April 23rd, with minor amendments, the bill came on top with 331–225. François Hollande promulgated the bill, commonly known as “Loi Taubira” in reference to its main sponsor, as law on May 18th, 2013. The first same-sex marriage took place in Montpellier on May 29.

146 mayors challenged the law and refused to officiate marriages for same-sex couples. Just so you know, a refusal to implement is considered discrimination based on sexual orientation and is punishable with up to 5 years imprisonment and a 75,000 euros fine. Their cases were send to the European Court of Human Rights in vain, as their were dismissed in October 2018. As of 2018, 40,000 same-sex marriages have been celebrated in France, approximately 3.5% of all French marriages in the 5-year time frame.

THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN. YOU KNOW THAT, RIGHT ?

We talked laws. We talked Homophobia. We talked Fear. I know want to share an impression of the Post-Mariage pour Tous situation that I’ve shared many times with friends, who mostly agree with me. It seemed that after the gigantic milestone was sealed and done, and the celebrations of the 2013 pride went according to plan, there was some sort of general drop of shoulders from Gays and Lesbians all around the country. The common attitude felt like an extension of the commonly heterosexual thought that now that we had marriage, we were all good and equal under the law. Well, absofuckinlutly not. While we have the right to marry and adopt as Queer couples, it didn’t come with IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation) for lesbian couples or any types of surrogacy for same-sex couples. Also, Gay men are still discriminated by the Law by not being able to give blood unless we’re a year abstinent. And for fuck’s sake, what about Trans rights ? Don’t you care about your Trans brothers and sisters ? That’s a story for tomorrow. Just know, dear Queer who is totally satisfied by the current situation, now that you have what you want, isn’t time to focus on those who don’t ? Wouldn’t be fair for this year’s pride to be all about parts of the community who is still search for their right to exist ?

See you then.