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Do animals know?
When their time is up?
Had to take our 21 year old cat(inherited 5 years ago when we moved house) to the vets last week to be 'put to sleep'(don't like saying 'killed').
That's 3 dogs and 2 cats I've had to take over the years.
My point- on the vets table they all behaved in exactly the same way.Obviously they were all ill but once on the table they just seemed to shut down. No reaction to strange people dressed in white and smelling of disinfectant(2 of them normally hated vets on sight), no reaction to noisy clippers, legs being shaved or large needles pushed in! They have all just laid there totally relaxed(?) and quiet while it happened.
Do they sense the inevitable happening and accept it with a different attitude to death than ours? If so how?
Has anyone else seen this happen with their pets or is it just my imagination?
I hate playing God, even to a pet. I can't imagine how someone feels when asked about switching off a loved ones life support and I can't imagine how they handle it afterwards.
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