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disturb a sick dog when not absolutely necessary.
As often as not your untimely interference only
distracts nature in her effort to assist him to get
well. All animals wish to be left alone when they
are ill and also when they are about to die. Alas!
the life of a dog is so short and there are none of us
who have not been in mourning for a lost friend.
Your first impulse and your first words after you
have laid him to rest under a tree in the park, are
that you never, never wish to have another dog;
no other dog could ever replace him, no other dog
could ever be to you what he has been. You are
mistaken. It is not a dog we love, it is the dog.
They are all more or less the same, they are all
ready to love you and be loved by you. They
are all representatives of the most lovable and,
morally speaking, most perfect creation of God.
If you loved your dead friend in the right way,
you cannot do without another. Alas! he also
will have to part from you, for those beloved by
the gods die young. Remember when his time
comes what I am going to tell you now. Do not
send him to the lethal chamber or ask your
kind-hearted doctor to see that he is given a painless
death under an anæsthetic. It is not a painless
death, it is a distressing death. Dogs often
resist the deadly effect of these gases and drugs
in the most heartrending way. The dose which
would kill a full-grown man often leaves a dog
alive for long minutes of mental and bodily
suffering. I have been present several times at these
massacres in lethal chambers and I have myself
killed many dogs under anæsthetics, and I know
what I am talking about. I shall never do it
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