「犬猫の殺処分、麻酔薬に変更 栃木県動物愛護センター」でも… "Tochigi Humane Society Switches to Anesthetics to Put Down Cats, Dogs" BUT....

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First looking at this article: "Tochigi Humane Society Switches to Anesthetics to Put Down Cats, Dogs"

http://news.goo.ne.jp/article/shimotsuke/region/shimotsuke-34064244.html

栃木県、頑張ってます。収容期間も見直しがあったし、今回ガス処分から麻酔薬使用になる。
Tochigi Prefecture is working hard. They've reconsidered the holding period for stray before putting them down, and most recently switched to using anesthetics instead of gassing them.

でも注意して欲しいのはここには麻酔薬使用とはあるけど決して「安楽死」とは書いていないです！

However, what I want you to notice is that, while this says"anesthetics", it doesn't specifically say "euthanasia"

腹腔内なのか？静脈注射なのか？
Is it an intraperitoneal? An intravenous injection?

腹腔内なら一気に薬液を入れられるように太い針を使ってお腹にブスッといくと思う。
If it's an intraperitoneal, they would be using  a painfully fat needle to inject all the medicine in at once straight into the stomach.

静脈なら血管確保しなきゃならないけど、暴れる子や怯えて口が出るような子はどうするんだろう…

If it's an intravenous injection, they need to check for the veins, but there are a lot of dogs and cats that would freak out or start biting out of fear-what would they do then?

問い合わせてみたけど「適切な方法でやっています」と腹腔内なのか静注なのかも教えてもらえなかった。

I tried to ask, but they didn't give me a clear answer-just that they were "using the appropriate methods'

ただ、獣医師職員にしてみれば、自分の手で犬や猫の命を奪う事になるのだから精神的な負担は大きいと思う。日に何頭もという事になればその心中察して余りある。「命を奪う為に獣医になったんじゃない！」という気持ちにもなるだろう。

However, putting myself in the shoes of such veterans, I presume there would be a heavy emotional burden on using my own hands to take the lives of so many cats and dogs-especially if I would have to do it to multiple animals day after day. I would certainly have heavy feelings-
I didn't become a vet to just take lives like this.

実はこのニュースを読んで一番心配したのは「安易に持ち込むひとが増えるのではないか」という事でした。

In all honesty, the first thing I worried about when I read this article was that it might make bringing in one's pet more easily done and increase the number of animals to be put down.

「連れて行けば安楽死させてくれるんでしょ」なんて気軽に持ち込まれたらたまったもんじゃないです😤麻酔薬使用＝安楽死ではないのですから。

I'm sure there are people out there thinking that anesthetics=euthanasia, and that if they bring in their pet, they will die comfortably and without pain. And if people keep thinking this and bring in their pets without really thinking hard about it, the numbers of animals will go up.

持ち込みの場合は即日処分なんだから、飼い主には立ち会わせるべきだと思う。そして亡骸も持ち帰らせる。自分がどんなに残酷な事をしたのか思い知って欲しい。遺棄となるとどうにもならないのだけど…(ｰ ｰ;)

When the pets are brought in, they're put down the very same day. and so  I think it is only right for the owners to be with them when they die-and not only face what they're putting their once- pet through. but also take home the body. I want them to really know what suffering they just put them through.Cases of abandonment might be another story, though.

処分ゼロに向かっての動きである今回の決定が、心ない飼い主が犬を捨てたり持ち込んだりする身勝手な言い訳になりませんように。

My point here today is that we should support no-kill policies, but which still shouldn't be excuses for heartless owners to throw away their dogs.

ぽちっと応援お願いします Every bit of support helps