Vetererinary Proceedure- Euthanasia?

Question

Does a Rabbit's death require 3 full suringes of ethanasisa to be put to death? And don't they need a catheter to be injected?
Monday we exsperianced a horrible death upon our beloved " Chocolate" Our Greif is Beyone.......... I need to know where to file a complaint, and the proper way to euthanize a rabbit. My heart says this was done 100% wronge!!! He struggled!!!! Please comply with any help and spair the insensitive remarks as we have great regrete!!

Answer 1

Rabbits are sometimes very hard to euthanize. They are very hard to place a cath. in also. I have never seen a vet place one in a rabbit at all. Sometimes even some cats require way more solution than you would think is necessary. Many pets do struggle.
I am not saying it was done well, I don't know where they injected the solution. I am saying it would really have been difficult to place a cath for that purpose.
They could have offered you the added expense of putting the rabbit in the anesthesia tank and putting him under with the gas so the could easily hit a vein. That would have made it a lot easier on all.

I have no idea what the one person is talking about when he thinks vets give 3 seperate solutions to euthanize a pet.......THAT IS HOW THEY KILL PEOPLE MORON!!!!!!!!! To euthanize pets, they do not give three seperate injections. The euthanasia solution is just a REALLY concentrated anesthetic. It does the whole job in one shot....unless they have to give more. Usually you estimate by the weight of the animal, but there will always be the cases where the pet needs way more than it should, or a huge pet that only needs a little.

Answer 2

Its very hard to euthanize a rabbit. You dont need to have a catheter to euthanize an animal, in fact if it doesnt already have one in because its been sick, we usually just give the shot intravenously. Honestly most animals struggle for a good 5-10 minutes when they are euthanized any other way than IV whether it be sub-q or IM. There are really only two options if you cant hit a vein, hit the heart, or usually at my clinic we give it into the abdomen. Its a very sad and hard thing to endure, but thats the best way it probably could've been done in that situation, im sorry about your loss, but this happens all the time, its just the way things are for smaller animals. Hope that helped

Answer 3

Usually when an animal is euthanized they are given an injection to put it to sleep, another to stop it's breathing and a third to stop it's heart. This may sound cruel, but it isn't because if the animal were left to die naturally it would suffer more. This means that no animal will suffer because it is in a deep, deep sleep. If there is a struggle it might be the normal twitching of the body when death occurs. I have had to put three of my dogs to sleep, because they were suffering much. My dogs had been with me for many years. One was 12 years old; the second 11 years and the last one 18 years. Life is hard I know, but if you can avoid prolonged suffering to these animals, do it! You'll feel better than if you let them die a slow death.

Answer 4

There is only one shot to euthanize a pet, and it is given in a vein if it is at all possible. If a vein cannot be found due to the pets condition, we give the injection through the jugular vein of the neck. If that is also impossible, we then try and give through the chest into the heart. The injection is based on the animals weight, and there are many different types of drugs used for euthanasia, but in any case, the drug actually puts them under anesthisia first, then it shuts down the vital organs. If the pet seems to struggle, it does not know what is going on at that point at all.... its more of a "reflex" action of the body shutting down. In other words, the pet may seem to "gasp for air", but in actuality, the pet is already gone, but the lungs are still shutting down, which then cause a "reflex" action, which appears to be a gasp.
We always recommend that people do not attend the euthanasia, but if they do, we "always" inform them beforehand of what to expect. I'm so sorry this wasn't the case with you. But rest assured, your pet did not know what was going on during the time it seemed to be struggling. That's just the bodys reaction as it shuts down.

Answer 5

Chemical euthanasia is *not* easy. And yes, animals are euthanized with multiple syringes. It is never easy. Just because it isn't grusome and bloody doesn't mean it is painless and not traumatic. I won't go into the details but it's several minutes before the animal actually dies.

Answer 6

Hello! I am so sorry for your loss! You were trying to do the most unselfish thing for your chocolate and now you are in pain. I have never had a pet put down (knocks on wood) and we have 4 dogs and 3 cats...i found a document that explains how it should go....

http://www.allaboutpets.org.uk/assets/pdfs/smpet/smpet12.pdf

I dont know where you can register a complaint....was this your normal vet that did this? If you can stop this place from doing this to another beloved pet owner, then go for it!! But dont kick yourself about it...try to find peace knowing that Chocolate is NOT suffering anymore. Chocolate knows that you loved him with all of your heart and you were only trying to do what you felt was best for him.

Please also visit the petloss site http://p103.ezboard.com/fpetlossfrm1

Try to find peace for yourself.

Dina

Answer 7

I think you need to take the rabbit to the vet and get his/her opinion. The best place to file a complaint, would be your local magistrate's office. As I always say, "Animals Rule, People are Cruel." Good Luck and sad to hear of your difficulty.