I know that there are human lobbies for having euthanasia as an option and I agree that there are circumstances in which it may be preferable to a certain painful death, but the problem is having the right safeguards in place to make sure it isn\u2019t abused. Take dogs as a good example. The Pet Dogs Democratic Party is now campaigning against the use of euthanasia on dogs at the choice of humans. This is nothing short of compulsory euthanasia and therefore murder. How often is the family pet given the choice of whether it wants to die? Now I\u2019ll grant that there are circumstances where it is the best thing for a pet as with humans, but with pets we just don\u2019t have the safeguards. There should never be a circumstance in which a healthy or disabled but happy animal is put to sleep simply because it doesn\u2019t have a loving home. Just think of the equivalent in human terms. Anyone who advocated the destruction of human beings just because they weren\u2019t able to look after themselves would be thought barbaric, so why is it permissible for dogs?<\/p>\n
This whole \u2018best friend\u2019 thing is only skin deep. When it suits you to want our faithful companionship then fine, but on a bad day, we\u2019re just an inconvenience to be disposed of. The Pet Dogs Democratic Party will campaign for a welfare system to take care of all dogs who fall on hard times. We will set up hospitals and nursing homes for dogs. We will pay benefit to those dogs who can\u2019t afford their keep and provide shelters for the homeless. Where we can, we\u2019ll team them up with a human being and do a \u2018two for one\u2019 package, give a home to a homeless dog and get a free human thrown in.<\/p>\n
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