[Leica] Re: Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

That,I'm sorry to say, is pretty much a pile of crap - It's actually the
other way around in terms of allot of the expensive treatments given to
pets - they're modified from humans. Yes, animal experimentation - not
treatments for Tabby and Rex - advance human medical care.....



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Eric
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:57 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven


Sam:

>I implied the $5000 pet operation is
>immoral because it's being spent on a beast rather than a human being.

Much of the expensive pet therapy drives our understanding of what we
can do to humans.  Some vets are actually at the cutting edge of new
surgical techniques.  Fido's exotic $5000 surgery may seem immoral to
you.  Fluffy's $6000 gene therapy may seem immoral to you.  When one of
your human loved ones has something similar in another 10 years, maybe
it won't seem too immoral any more.

If it's your money, you can decide how to spend it.  If it's not, you
can't.
:)


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Eric
http://canid.com/

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