Data collection and causes of euthanasia in dogs and cats: ethical-moral evaluation

Authors

  • Mariana de Souza Faculdade Dr Francisco Maeda. Ituverava- SP Brasil
  • Mariana Virgínia de Souza .
  • Izabela Andrade Pandolfi .
  • Romeu Moreira dos Santos .
  • Daniel Paulino Junior .

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31533/pubvet.v13n11a451.1-13

Keywords:

ethics, euthhanasia, veterinary medicine

Abstract

Euthanasia is the humanitarian death of an animal, performed by a method that produces rapid unconsciousness and subsequent death, without the goal of reducing pain and / or agony, or a method that uses anesthetic drugs in doses sufficient to produce a loss of consciousness. The present work is a bibliographical review approach to euthanasia in small animals and to bring a survey process over a period of 25 months, in which 2,982 animals were attended and, 41 were euthanized, 95.12% of which were dogs and 4,84% are cats. As three main causes of this euthanasia have now always been distemper, spine fractures and neoplasms.

Published

2019-12-31

Issue

Section

Medicina veterinária

How to Cite

Data collection and causes of euthanasia in dogs and cats: ethical-moral evaluation. (2019). Pubvet, 13(11). https://doi.org/10.31533/pubvet.v13n11a451.1-13

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