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I would like to thank everybody for their advice on what is the best thing for me to do. Although, I noticed their were seperate opinions on the, "to kill or not to kill" question. Unfortunately the chicken is now gone, and for the better. I will say no more, or what has been done.
I embrace and love every living animal on this planet, as do allot of people. I might be only 20 years old this year but I do know a thing or two about certain animals.
But no matter how big or small the animal may be, I would NEVER carelessly treat an animal as "just another one of those things". If you can't love and care for the animal seperately, don't buy it, keep it, or 'use it', even if you have 100 hens. To play with lives for yourself is careless in my eyes. Allot of people just "can't be bothered".
spish - In response to your post, you seem to be giving me the impression that I don't know what I'm prepared for if the chicken had of survived, otherwise you wouldn't of asked all of those questions, right? Alright, I will answer your questions for you.
"are you willing to care for a disabled chicken (if it survives) for the next 5 to 10 years?" - Yes, I was fully aware and equipped for what was to come if the chicken had of survived. I was already giving the chicken physiotherapy to get blood pumping normally.
"may i ask why your are 'keeping it going'? for yourself? or for the chick?" - I'm sorry, excuse me? for myself you say? No. Not for myself. Just because I didn't knock it over the head, chop it's head off, put it in a freezer, break it's neck or leave it to die, doesn't mean I'm thinking of myself. I know what was to come if the chicken would get obviously worse.
Your tone spish, is rather rude. "if its more a case of you not being able to actually do the deed of ending its suffering...im sure someone else could do it for you. sadly this is one of those not so great sides of chicken keeping..sometimes you have to make a desicion based on whats best for the chicken...not for your conscience."
You talk as if you would instantly put the animal down and what I was doing was wrong. I can just believe that there are people out there, like yourself, that look at the "other side" of a situation and start to attack the person who is giving the animal a chance to live. I knew exactly what I was doing. There are good and bad sides to keeping animals and I'm not one of those girls who fawn over cute and fluffy things. I might only be only 20 years old this year but I wouldn't underestimate me. I've put animals down with my own bare hands because it had gotten to the only option, and I don't see allot of girls my age even thinking of such things let alone looking at an animal and doing it, so the they let it suffer just because they couldn't do the "dirtywork".
I make my decisions based on what is right for the animal in all types of cases, whether or not it is suffering. But I can tell you that I am NOT one of those people that see a suffering animal and automatically and carelessly think, "well it needs to die" Can I ask if you, if YOU were suffering and in pain, would you wan't somebody to say "well you need to die, sorry" then I break your neck? When there ARE medical treatments out there no matter how bizzare. No, you would want somebody to have hope for you and fight for you.
I look at the situation like an open book and analyse exactly what is going on, then I make the decisions along the way. I make sure my decisions are right. What makes my decisions right, is when I research and endeavour the situation. spish, you don't seem to have much of a fighting heart?..
Allot of the happy and healthy animals that we own at my home have a wonderous survival stories behind them, and I bet if they could speak english they would thank us for fighting for them. I've spent oodles of my own money to keep an animal alive. I have a cat that is fully grown and happy. He was nearly dead when I found it lying on the footpath in 40 degree heat on a summer afternoon as only just a tiny kitten. He had cat flu, serious dehydration, anorexia, conjunctivitis, fleas, parasites 'you name it, he had it' as my dad would say. But we took it to the vet immediantly and they said, "It doesn't look good, but if you're willing to pay a fair bit of money on this cat to keep it alive then bless you, but he may not live" So we did of course, we faught for him in the best way possible, we didn't put him down, and now he is happy and living. And that's just one of the story behind one of our many lucky animals. I worked at that vet for 1 year and they put down animals daily. In a lot of cases the animals are fine, but they put them down because "they can't find homes for them" isn't it pathetic, they don't get a say do they? Of all the hundreds of thousands of animals that get put down across the globe just because they don't have a home is pathetic.
But then again as humans, we are pathetic in allot of ways, as we are good in allot of ways.
I embrace and love every living animal on this planet, as do allot of people. I might be only 20 years old this year but I do know a thing or two about certain animals.
But no matter how big or small the animal may be, I would NEVER carelessly treat an animal as "just another one of those things". If you can't love and care for the animal seperately, don't buy it, keep it, or 'use it', even if you have 100 hens. To play with lives for yourself is careless in my eyes. Allot of people just "can't be bothered".
spish - In response to your post, you seem to be giving me the impression that I don't know what I'm prepared for if the chicken had of survived, otherwise you wouldn't of asked all of those questions, right? Alright, I will answer your questions for you.
"are you willing to care for a disabled chicken (if it survives) for the next 5 to 10 years?" - Yes, I was fully aware and equipped for what was to come if the chicken had of survived. I was already giving the chicken physiotherapy to get blood pumping normally.
"may i ask why your are 'keeping it going'? for yourself? or for the chick?" - I'm sorry, excuse me? for myself you say? No. Not for myself. Just because I didn't knock it over the head, chop it's head off, put it in a freezer, break it's neck or leave it to die, doesn't mean I'm thinking of myself. I know what was to come if the chicken would get obviously worse.
Your tone spish, is rather rude. "if its more a case of you not being able to actually do the deed of ending its suffering...im sure someone else could do it for you. sadly this is one of those not so great sides of chicken keeping..sometimes you have to make a desicion based on whats best for the chicken...not for your conscience."
You talk as if you would instantly put the animal down and what I was doing was wrong. I can just believe that there are people out there, like yourself, that look at the "other side" of a situation and start to attack the person who is giving the animal a chance to live. I knew exactly what I was doing. There are good and bad sides to keeping animals and I'm not one of those girls who fawn over cute and fluffy things. I might only be only 20 years old this year but I wouldn't underestimate me. I've put animals down with my own bare hands because it had gotten to the only option, and I don't see allot of girls my age even thinking of such things let alone looking at an animal and doing it, so the they let it suffer just because they couldn't do the "dirtywork".
I make my decisions based on what is right for the animal in all types of cases, whether or not it is suffering. But I can tell you that I am NOT one of those people that see a suffering animal and automatically and carelessly think, "well it needs to die" Can I ask if you, if YOU were suffering and in pain, would you wan't somebody to say "well you need to die, sorry" then I break your neck? When there ARE medical treatments out there no matter how bizzare. No, you would want somebody to have hope for you and fight for you.
I look at the situation like an open book and analyse exactly what is going on, then I make the decisions along the way. I make sure my decisions are right. What makes my decisions right, is when I research and endeavour the situation. spish, you don't seem to have much of a fighting heart?..
Allot of the happy and healthy animals that we own at my home have a wonderous survival stories behind them, and I bet if they could speak english they would thank us for fighting for them. I've spent oodles of my own money to keep an animal alive. I have a cat that is fully grown and happy. He was nearly dead when I found it lying on the footpath in 40 degree heat on a summer afternoon as only just a tiny kitten. He had cat flu, serious dehydration, anorexia, conjunctivitis, fleas, parasites 'you name it, he had it' as my dad would say. But we took it to the vet immediantly and they said, "It doesn't look good, but if you're willing to pay a fair bit of money on this cat to keep it alive then bless you, but he may not live" So we did of course, we faught for him in the best way possible, we didn't put him down, and now he is happy and living. And that's just one of the story behind one of our many lucky animals. I worked at that vet for 1 year and they put down animals daily. In a lot of cases the animals are fine, but they put them down because "they can't find homes for them" isn't it pathetic, they don't get a say do they? Of all the hundreds of thousands of animals that get put down across the globe just because they don't have a home is pathetic.
But then again as humans, we are pathetic in allot of ways, as we are good in allot of ways.
