What was the vet's responsibility?

The vet had every right to refuse. The fault in this case is 100% on the owner of the company. He brought on all these dogs when the Olympics came, but did he for a second think what would become of these dogs afterward when business slows down? No. Obviously not.

I am in college hoping to become a veterinarian as well. If someone called me up and wanted me to euthanize 100 healthy animals, I don't think I could be a part of it either. Killing that many animals for no reason except for they weren't wanted by their owner would be heartbreaking.

The business owner should have contacted more than one vet for this. If he would have tried hard enough, I'm sure he would have been able to find someone willing to do this.

I think he should have encouraged them to keep looking for homes or rescues willing to take the dogs on. I agree with his decison not to euthanize healthy animals, I don't think he would have known what was going to happen though. If I KNEW the person was going to kill them himself, I'd have probably done it - just to avoid the dogs suffering - and thats only if I knew all other measures had been taken out to rehome them. I know a shelter or rescue couldn't take that many dogs at once. I'd ask him to go to multiple shelters and rescues who were willing to take on a few dogs and have them pick out the most adoptable ones, before euthanizing the remaining ones that would either face a life confinedto a cage or a painful death.

This whole thing should never have happened. I felt sick when I read about it.

The way the situation was handled could have been a lot better.

The vet had no responsibility. The dogs were in good health and could have potentially gone to another facility or even homes for some of them.

Add:

I know that they claimed that they tried.

But no sled dog rescues/"sanctuaries" are making note of the facility contacting them for help.

No other sled dog facilities are saying that anyone asked them for help.

They really didn't have a whole lot of choice.

This was 100 dogs that were NOT suited to family life, and were liable to end up spending the rest of their days rotting in the shelter.

i might think of that the city found out approximately this chew from the wellness center, by way of fact the wellness center is obligated to checklist canine bites. If the vet tech mandatory to be taken care of at an ER, this grow to be not a tiny nip, yet a extra serious chew. curiously that the city regulation allowed the city to then press expenditures in spite of what the vet tech might have asked. There additionally seem to have been distinctive blunders made by the owners and the vet tech. Letting the owner carry the canine in her hands for any style of scientific care grow to be a reasonably super one. whilst the canine is being held in this form(up interior the air, enclosed interior the owner's hands) it has no option of get away if it feels threateed, making a chew lots extra probably. And if the canine does chew, he's extra probably to get the tech's face in that place, as that is going to be closer than mandatory. it is likewise plausible that the canine felt it grow to be conserving the owner, rather than itself, in this difficulty by way of fact the owner grow to be disappointed and the tech grow to be coming somewhat on the brink of the owner to boot. In a extra valuable vet prepare, the vet or the tech might have securely held the canine in one in each of those vogue that it could not chew and the different might have achieved despite technique grow to be mandatory precisely to avert one in each of those chew. The tech additionally curiously took the owner's be conscious for it that Spork grow to be ok rather of analyzing the canine and the situation exact. All vets have muzzles for canine they have faith might chew, in spite of what the owner says. So at the same time as the owners might have a vicious canine, the coping with on the vet's place of work did not do something to administration the situation and can have provoked it. As to this incident putting human beings off bringing their canine to the vet: see above. solid veterinary practices understand the thank you to accurately guard canine to decrease the aptitude of bites. ETA: Now that i've got considered the previous q in this, it basically confirms each thing i've got already stated! The techs lip grow to be torn off, the canine had a historic previous of nervousness on the vet, and so on. seem at Miaugh's answer on the unique Q for extra information.

why did they want them put down?

if healthy i couldn't do it.