Golden Gate Springer Rescue

The No Kill Advocacy Center defines “irremediable physical suffering” as an animal who has “a poor or grave prognosis for being able to live without severe, unremitting pain even with comprehensive, prompt, and necessary veterinary care,” such as animals in fulminant organ system failure. But some shelters and their allies have suggested that the definition is too narrow as it does not allow for mental suffering.

Can dogs, cats, and other animals be so traumatized that they should not be—indeed would not want to be—alive? In short, is there such a thing as “irremediable psychological suffering”?

No. There is no such thing as an animal who is irremediably psychologically or behaviorally suffering. They can and must be saved. It should, therefore, never be a death sentence as some shelters and the ASPCA have suggested.

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Awwww...check out the bunny ears!

This Woman Quit Her Job to Knit Cozy Sweaters That Keep Abandoned Greyhounds Warm

http://www.doglistener.co.uk/aggression/cocker_rage.shtml
For those interested in behavior, this linkd to a UK page discussing so-called Rage. Mentions a new term to me: Sudden Onset Aggression, which is much more descriptive.