A Tan, you really need help over social pleasantries and meanness. People who own dogs do so because they love them, while you seem to have issues with everyone. Chill out.

If they loved their dog, why didn't they end his misery sooner?

A Tan, you worry me. Have you ever owned a dog, the domesticated animal known globally as "man's best friend". Based on your views, I should have shot my last 40 years of dogs the first time they vomited up on the carpet!

You really should seek counselling, you might have a serious illness, and maybe should ask Armchair Critic to put you out of your misery (A Tan, just in case, that was a joke)

Why would I kill a dog for vomiting on my carpet? Would you kill your child because it vomited on the kitchen table? I wouldn't.

I think you don't know what genuine suffering is. Have you tried the 40-hour famine? I have.

Ah.... so your a fat old thing, as well as a hater of everyone!. I say again, A Tan, chill! OLO is meant to be about ideas and discussion, not bile and spit.

Ayame,I think I have you sussed.
From your own comments, I learn that you are an emotional person.
You are also irrational.
You are over endowed with subjective reasoning and lacking in objectivity and maturity.
Maturity is something you are born with, unlike when an apple is mature, in humans it has to do with EQ.
You appear to be far too sensitive to the plight of anything and everything, but mostly animals.
You remind me of a young girl my son was dating once.
My son and her happened to walk past a homeless person with a dog.
As they walked on she started to tear-up, which led my son to ask; "what's wrong"?
To which she answered, sobbing, "that poor dog"!
When I denigrate certain people for being WRONG, or stupid or immature, I am referring to people like yourself, who lack the ability to rationalise and assess a situation, instead of taking the "childlike" view about everything in life.
And so it is, because of people like you, that you should not be allowed to vote or comment on major issues.
Your thinking/decisions are irrational and therefore irrelevant.