humane cat solution

blue gecko · #81 07/11/06, 12:06 PM

The pharmacy should carry ether or you can use starter fluid (ether). A cloth soaked rag in a lidded box for a couple of hours will do the trick. I like the benedryl idea for easing things along.
I think that the prices being charged for putting a pet down are ridiculous. It's difficult enough to make "the decision" and then to feel fleeced at the same time. grrrr

susieM · #82 07/11/06, 05:52 PM

Our vet gives ether for free.

Big Dave · #83 07/11/06, 06:21 PM

http://www.ahc.umn.edu/rar/euthanasia.html
If you have not put your cat down as yet I hope this will help
TRUTH & MERCY Big Dave

comfortablynumb · #84 07/11/06, 06:39 PM

pharmacies do not carry ether, and starting fluid ether has petroleum distilates in it that burn their eyes and lungs after breathing it for a while.

if you dont mind them foaming at the mouth and gagging to death, it works.

froggirl · #85 07/11/06, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by willow_girl

Come on ...

The cat gave you 10+ years as a faithful companion to your children, and now you're nickel-and-diming over how to end her life compassionately?

Give me a break, folks! :no:

I agree $122 is highway robbery, but surely there is another vet in your area, or a county-run shelter that will do the deed for a reasonable sum.

Remember that your children are watching and learning a lesson on how much care and compassion should be provided to the elderly and dying.

Do you want them nickle-and-diming on YOUR care when you get old and feeble someday?!

Just a thought ...

My thoughts exactly Willow_Girl and plus, you said it much nicer than I would have.

--f.g.

Pick-Axe · #86 07/13/06, 11:48 PM

You said it was a "farm pet" which implies you live on a farm. Farms deal with life and death frequently. Step on the chest, maintain pressure, the lungs collapse and death is quick. $0

Pick-Axe

comfortablynumb · #87 07/29/06, 11:19 PM

oh theres a nice method.

pookshollow · #88 07/30/06, 10:45 AM

Redneck Pete - I was going to suggest giving Lynden Vet Clinic a call, since you're in Hamilton. (Lived there for 16 years

) I know that they have more reasonable prices than city vets.

I had to have my old dog put down last year, up in Cambridge. $300+!

I'm sure if I'd let her go another day, she would have died on her own, but she was suffering and I just couldn't do it.

Hovey Hollow · #89 07/30/06, 11:35 AM

Why does this year and a half old thread keep getting resurected? I'm sure the cat has been dead a very long time!
Talk about beating a dead horse..........er cat!!

neolady · #90 07/30/06, 11:43 AM

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comfortablynumb · #91 07/30/06, 07:31 PM

do you have a problem with us continuing to talk about whacking cats ?

lol