• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I am also in the U.S. and I do treat my dogs as family and I do not crate them. However, the person you are replying to does not treat their dog as family. They think they do, but they don’t. They told a story on another thread on this governor about their own dog (which I initially misread) which included this part:

    I thought about having the vet put him to “sleep” but I didn’t like that either. He didn’t deserve to be injected with strange drugs in a strange place by strangers. I chose to take him home, give him a rather large dose of xanax and smother him with my hand while telling him what an amazing boy he was.

    https://lemmy.world/comment/9683664

    That doesn’t sound like treating them as family to me.

    Edit: Forgot the “not” up there. Kind of important.