danmakine wrote:
Spooksandbolts wrote:
ccrarabians wrote:
I've had experience with one bad chemical euthanasia. And two not so bad ones.

Precisely what went wrong?

What did the vet do/say about it?

What did you do/say about it?

I've had one mare, who was being put down due to old age/arthritis/general unsoundness/winter etc. Planned euth, not acute. The euth drug took 2 minutes to work before she laid down, and she kept on breathing for 20-30 minutes, and 3 more doses of the euth juice.

The vet was listning to her heart (beating), and administered more of the drug. I sat at her head, sobbing, and asking her to let go.

The vet said she  probably was in advanced organ failure (She had been losing weight at an alarming rate for a few days) and thus her body probably didnt distribute the drug to the whole body? (Hazy on the details, I was not in a good state).


So there, a case of an euth not gone perfectly well.

ETA: Picture of the horse shortly before euth: http://farm4.static.flick...6750265_d9cb802cd0_z.jpg She was NOT emaciated or anything, but gone from plump and well-covered to not-so-plump.
This is not as bad as I was imagining.  I would prefer this to a slip of the hand/gun/horse and end up with a crazed horse bolting around with it's face half off.

And now I'm off to pay my vet $25 to euth a chicken because I just do NOT want to deal with it any "other" way because I'm a (har har) chicken like that.  (and I just took my shower and need to get some shit done and don't have time for blood and/or drama)


Not my circus.  Not my monkeys.
      -Polish proverb