Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Apr 15 16:30:16 2004

That's another thing entirely - and gets back to people and their
relationships with 'companion' animals. People have been doing the same
thing in nursing homes for some time....

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jeffery Smith
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:22 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven


One of the radiation therapy instructors at the college trains dogs to
be "therapy dogs" (she usually uses shih tzus). It is remarkable how
those dogs can bring relief to people suffering from cancer than no drug
can bring. The folks in the hospice cannot wait for the visits, and
don't want to let the dogs go. 

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of B. D.
Colen
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:15 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven

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.
:)


--
Eric
http://canid.com/

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