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Originally Posted by Pinner
The Vet refused to put the dogs down, he made at least some attempt to give dogs away. Maybe he was in the position of if he didn't do it, he would lose his job. Not easy to get a good job in Whistler especially in April.
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I'm quite sure the guy that did this is not really the "monster" that some people think.
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The veterinarian refused to put the dogs down because they were healthy. Someone mentioned in this thread that the amount of animals in Calgary being euthanized would stoke our ire... I imagine a very large proportion of those animals are being euthanized under circumstances, that at the least, are morally ambiguous.
The circumstances by which these animals were put down were not at all morally ambiguous. It was outright unjustified by moral considerations. Sure, economic considerations provided motivation for the culling of these huskies - though I think we can agree they were brutally inadequate.
The veterinarian did the right thing, and it was in this mans power to do the same.
The vagueness of the sentence "some attempts were made to give the animals away" does not provide a satisfactory picture of the feasibility of adoption. Did he just ask a few friends or did he contact local media to advertise these animals? Both those attempts would have had drastically different results. If the article read, as the situation may have been, that the man had "thoroughly exhausted all attempts to adopt the animals", it would be a different story. The economic motivation of culling the herd would be legitimized, although this would not override the man's obligation to function within the limits of morality.
I imagine that this man is not a "monster". I imagine he did not enjoy doing what he did. I imagine that, yes, it has affected him negatively via PTSD. This, however, does not release him of the obligation to function morally.