Euthanasia is a?
Massive overdoes of anesthesia.
Pets are used to meet many of the changing?
Psycho-social needs of modern society.
When pet loss occurs, intensity and duration of attachment?
Determine the significance of the loss and intensity of grief that follows.
Keys to Attachment
Keys to Attachment
- Owners believe that they rescued their pet from death or near death.
- Owners believe that their pet got them through a difficult period in life.
- Owner spent their childhood with their pet.
- Owner has relied on their pet as their most significant source of support.
- Owner anthropomorphizes their pet.
- Owner has invested significant time, efoort, and money into their pets long term medical care.
- Owners view their pets as symbolic links to significant people who are no longer in their lives, or to significant times in their lives.
Grief is very?
Individual, and each family member may grieve in a unique way.
A cow wouldn’t be euthanized, it would be?
Shipped to slaughter.
What was the name of the famous racing horse that had a leg injury?
Barbaro
Your personal values may effect?
Your perception and beliefs about euthanasia.
As a professional, you will have to?
Participate in assisting in the process of euthanasia.
It is important to understand your own?
Feelings in order to be able to assist the client with their decision regarding eithanasia.
In addition, you should not make this process more difficult for the client by?
Projecting your values into the situation.
Kubler-Ross: Stages of Dying
Five Stages of Dying
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Final Acceptance
People don’t consider that most pet’s life spans are?
Much shorter than ours and that the grieving process is part of pet ownership.
Veterinarians and technicians are confronted daily with?
Complex issues of attachment, loss, and grief in the course of their patients’ illnesses and deaths.
Many times clients turn to the veterinary staff as sources of?
Support, comfort, and understanding at and around the time of their pet’s death.
Veterinary staff have a unique position since they have an?
Understanding of the bond between owner and pet.
Veterinary staff have the ability and responsibility to?
Assist clients going through the process of grief when their beloved pet dies.
You must give the client?
- Support
- Understanding
- Empathy
- The permission to grieve.
Children and Death
In dealing with children and death:
- Tell them the TRUTH!
- Explain in simple terms.
- Don’t use euphemisms.
- Contact children’s support system.
Veterinarians and Technicians…
Veterinarians and Technicians:
- Work with death and client grief on an almost daily basis.
- Are emotionally involved with each patient.
- Are affected by every patients death.
- Need to assit in the euthanasia process.
- Need to deal with their own emotional health.
- Can burn out easily if not also allowed to grieve.
What are the names of the Goldfish?
Sprinkles and Bridgette
