I don't have a problem with it at all, because:
a.) We do not have Daddy-the-dog's vet records so we don't know that he "suffered" trauma due to the chemo. There are many cases (human and animal) when chemotherapy is a part of pallitive care ... that's care to ease painful/distressing symptoms caused by cancer as opposed to curative care. In those cases, the chemo given actually makes the patient feel better for the time they have left.
b.) We don't know how many rounds of chemo he was given ... he may have had earlier chemo from which he went into remission and was able to live cancer-free and pain-free for some time before the cancer possibly recurred, after which he then passed away.
c.) From the dogs I have seen that had chemo treatment for cancer, the dogs do much better with far fewer side effects than humans on chemo for cancer.
I just don't think it's fair to blame his owners and say that the chemo was done for selfish reasons, or that the treatment was "traumatic" when we simply don't have all the facts of that particular case.
a.) We do not have Daddy-the-dog's vet records so we don't know that he "suffered" trauma due to the chemo. There are many cases (human and animal) when chemotherapy is a part of pallitive care ... that's care to ease painful/distressing symptoms caused by cancer as opposed to curative care. In those cases, the chemo given actually makes the patient feel better for the time they have left.
b.) We don't know how many rounds of chemo he was given ... he may have had earlier chemo from which he went into remission and was able to live cancer-free and pain-free for some time before the cancer possibly recurred, after which he then passed away.
c.) From the dogs I have seen that had chemo treatment for cancer, the dogs do much better with far fewer side effects than humans on chemo for cancer.
I just don't think it's fair to blame his owners and say that the chemo was done for selfish reasons, or that the treatment was "traumatic" when we simply don't have all the facts of that particular case.
Dogs really have very few side effects when compared to humans when given chemo. We had a boxer this past summer go through chemo at the clinic. He was in every week or every other week, we'd give him his meds, and when he weas done he'd go home, as bouncy as ever. We've also had some patients on oral chemo drugs because it's what worked with their particular symptoms. "Chemo" is a huge range of drugs with different ways of administration.