Animals live much less than humans. Almost any dog or cat owner has to deal with the death of his or her pet.

I don’t know how many dogs die a natural death. God grant they do. Known from my friends’ experience pets usually die of a disease. Their owners have to take a difficult in all senses decision about relieving the sufferings of their pets.

Normal people take a decision of putting their pet to sleep only when all means to prolong their more or less comfortable life were exhausted and there is no hope for recovery.

Veterinarians are asked to perform euthanasia.

The common opinion about veterinarians and such terms as “putting to sleep” assuage the pet owner and suggest an idea of a fast and painless relief of pet’s sufferings.

Really, in a veterinary clinic they say that the dog is given an anesthetic, and when it takes an effect, the intravenous lethal injection is administered. Such an explanation heard from a friendly veterinarian works fine for a depressed pet owner.
However, very few people take an interest in the names and effects of the used medicine.

In May, 2006 I ran into the following situation::

The dog was dying of carcinoma, refused to eat and almost did not move. The treatment did not change the health state for better. I had to help the animal to end the sufferings.

Amongst all veterinary clinics I could find, which performed euthanasia at home, rometar was used for anesthesia.

But gentlemen, ROMETAR IS NOT AN ANESTHETIC.

Rometar is a paralyzing medication..

The effect of rometar is that your dog or cat can not move but keeps on seeing, hearing and feeling. After the second lethal injection the animal dies in a terrible pain that lasts for dozens of minutes. You should know this.


It turned out that there is a second option:
Some veterinary institutions, which perform euthanasia in clinic, are using pofol as an anesthetic to put animals to sleep.
But pofol is also not an anesthetic, it’s a hallucinogen.
It’s difficult for me to imagine death of asphyxia under the effect of a hallucinogen.
In my opinion this is called HORROR.
In my opinion this is called HORROR. It turns to be a "horrible death".


As a result of day and a half discussion I convinced of the veterinarians to give a real anesthetic to my dog.

People, be aware.