@stevieb wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@stevieb wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
Animals, both dogs and cats, have health and emotional issues as they age, just as people do. They are quicker to organ failure.
From the Daily Mail:
“Unfortunately, she had to decide to leave Bogart behind in North America because he was thought to be too old to make the plane trip across the Atlantic.
“For some dogs, the plane trip and lengthy approval process to enter the United Kingdom can be pretty arduous. To secure permission to live in the U.K., a foreign dog must be microchipped and travel in an airplane’s cargo section, which can be dangerous for some pets, according to Dogfriendly.com.
“The owner also must bring documents showing that the animal has received vaccinations and been tested and treated for various infectious diseases, including rabies and tapeworm. Dogs that don’t meet these requirements are subject to a quarantine of up to six months.
“In an interview earlier this month, Markle revealed that one of her dogs — presumably Bogart — found a home with very close friends of hers, while Guy had been in the U.K. for a while.”
If the dog (or cat) is elderly they will often have kidney failure. They can’t regulate their body temperature - that’s why so many pets die in cargo holds. There are several reasons to do with the animal’s age and general health, neither of which anyone here knows personally, that would give reason to believe that an elderly dog, no longer in great health, could die during a flight or their organs shut down out of pure stress, medication or no medication.
PSA over - you can go back to insinuating now.
I didn't see insinuation, what I saw was concern being expressed for an elderly companion animal that was no longer part of the larger plan, and you can take that any way you like...
So...if an elderly dog in not the best of health was put into the cargo hold of an airplane and was DOA or in extremis upon deplaning, that would be “Well, at least the dog died knowing it was loved?” So that’s kinder? Taking better care of the dog?
People who are strangers to us do not owe us explanations for their decisions - period.
It's probably advisable not to put words into other people's mouths simply to try to support your own point of view... I never indicated the elderly dog should be put in a cargo hold nor did I indicate Markle owes anyone an explanation...
I've known lots of people who deep-six animals for a variety of reasons: they want to have a baby, they're moving, their SO doesn't like the animal... whatever. My reaction is the same regardless of who's making the choice to let the animal go in favor of what they view as a higher priority. For me, when you get an animal, you are making a commitment, whoever you are and whatever your supposed reasons...
LOL. So, really, you only commented originally because you wanted to take a thwap at me - which incidentally I was well aware of.
You don’t actually disagree with me as far as the animal situation, you chose to pick up up on the word ‘insinuate.’
Yes, people have been insinuating throughout this thread - and not simply about the dog. It’s a given that in any thread started about anything to do with the Royal Family, a handful of posters will drop by to toss poo into the room, some thinking they’re subtle, some ubapologetically blunt. Those who try to be “clever” about it never actually are, of course. The insinuation is badly done, obvious and fooling no one.
Those who claim to see none fool no one either.
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