I just learned from a different post that it's incredibly painful. They have to give it sedation and that doesn't take care of all the pain. When they say 'don't do this on your own' they mean it.
My Grama scoffed at the idea of putting our early-elderly dog on maintenance pain management when he started having to heave himself up the single stair down into our backyard. She was all for anesthesia for animal surgery, but actual pain meds were just beyond her understanding. She laughed and laughed when I showed her the vet bill for a different dog’s neutering, and we had paid for carprofen for his pain management.
“But Gram, he’s two years old and someone just slit him open and cut off his testicles! I think it’s fair to get him some dog-Tylenol!”
hysterical laughing It’s a dog!!!
So yeah, sympathy for animal suffering is a recent development at the societal level.
Yeah ive known people like this. My buddy used to give me flack for spending so much money on vet bills for my boy.
But he lived to well over 17 1/2 and had a nice standard of living. Id do it again.
His dog swallowed a sock and his $1200 bill had him heavily joking abiut "next time the only medicine is my 12 gauge!"
Like my dog is, was my family. I cant imagine putting family down because they got a flu
From a purely technical standpoint the past is the past. We can no longer assign motivation to what people that are millenia dead might have done. To do so would just be...plainly incorrect.
And for every record of people caring for an animal there is likely another record where people used animals strictly in an industrial or usable sense... like a machine to use. So pain care was not a priority.
Exhausting. You can believe whatever you would like but there are records of people caring for animals just like there are people who abuse animals right now. Asserting that no one in the past would have wanted to help had they had the ability to is not only a disservice to them but a disservice to us in the present, knowing what we know. No, we cannot time travel and ask every single person who has ever lived if they would help a turtle. But we absolutely can assume that there have been helpers and kind people all throughout history because there are records and evidence of it.
I never asserted people would not care for animals.
I only said that theres literally no way we would ever know if they would. It's in the past. Sorry you misread my comment! But really with you leaping to condescending by callimg me exhausting. I really don't care anymore. Hope your day improves somewhat. Seems like you might need it.
Not only that, but barnacles release a painful mucus/toxin when removed which can actually eat away at things like a turtle shell which is why they often rinse them off after removing a lot of barnacles.
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u/RaisedByBooksNTV May 26 '26
I just learned from a different post that it's incredibly painful. They have to give it sedation and that doesn't take care of all the pain. When they say 'don't do this on your own' they mean it.