->  Dogs lack vanity. If only more people lacked vanity too... how much more a
-> happier place the world would be.

 WC> Spanky smiles a lot when praised.
 WC> It cracks me up when the back last 1/2 inch of his lips turn shgarply
 WC> upwards.


 They MUST have a sense of humor. I think Abbie does. She's such a
 clown. She loves to clown around. A real clowner that one. She loves
to get up in your lap (and she is quite a lapful) and get you to play
with her while you try to read. I know I have to give her more time to
play. I think if I do that she'll leave my plants alone.

Out back she likes to prowl for lady bugs and crickets.

-> You know I have had a question go unanswered. Maybe it's too obscene.
-> This is a better place to ask it perhaps. The question came up again
-> when suprisingly enough I saw it referred to by a popular columnist. I
-> can't be alone in this then.

-> When our pets are obviously dying do we keep them alive indefinitly by
-> artificial means? Of course not. We grant them mercy.

 WC> I'll be facing that in a year or two.

We already did in March as you know. It's a sobering thing, very. But
you know you do know you're doing the right thing. Not for yourself
but for teh animal. This keeping humans alive past their time- is
nothing but selfishness. People doing it are doing it not for the
patent but for themselves.
                           
 WC> My guy is already 25 percent past the average age for the breed but is
 WC> still going strong.

 Enjoy him all you can.. he's a treasure. Patches was to us very much
 too.

-> Why do not
-> humans accord the same to fellow humans who are dying or proven to be
-> brain dead?

 WC> Oregon has a reasonable euthanasia law.
 WC> Florida had Terri Schiavo :-(

  Yeeah. No brainer. I told you about how my dear MIL said after the
Judge refused to return the feeding tube, "But imagine how Terry
(SIC) feels!?"

I said mom, That's just it. She doesn't feel. Can you feel when you
are asleep? NO not until you are conscious and awaken. Terri has no
conscsious to awaken too.

People really don't understand how the brain works at all. PVS means
the body is running on it's autonomous system. There's no cognition at
all... it's sad and scary but keeping this person alive is like
keeping a machine operational. There's no person there.


I think I have to answer my own quesiton. People aren't afraid to do
what is best for a dying animal, but when it comes to a beloved person
they only think of themselves.
                             
WC> I've still get a brain scan of her brain, what little of it remained
 WC> not replaced by spinal fluid.

 I remember the scan. People think somehow a miracle will grow frontal
 lobe tissue I guess. Hmm maybe fetal stem cells... but hey the
rightwingnuts don't WANT that sort of thing do they. They just wanted to
keep her 'going' is all.

That's jsut it about these pro lifers. They just want "life" they
don't care about LIVES. (Quality of life that is.)

-> It realy is a sick world we live in.

 WC> You know the only individuals in a position to change that,
 WC> but they seem more interested in war.

 Yeah. The pro lifer motto seems to be : have babies so you can supply
the warfront!

It's sin to prevent an unwnated life, but okay to kill it once born
and fresh out of High School!

 WC> In the local news there's often a report on fighting Pit
 WC> Bull training camps for those that raise them to fight in for profit
 WC> gambling events.

 :(

 WC> To take such a potentally fine animal and turn it into a killing
 WC> machine is beyond repulsive.

 Humans do the same thing to humans. It's called , the Military.

 WC> I actually do not understand what people see in this _activity_
 WC> and I believe I'm glad I do not understand.


  It's like the Middle Ages where dogs were tossed in to fight bears.

 Some people haven't evolved above that part of human nature which is
our aniimal nature. Lust for blood and violence.


Cindy

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