Yes if we did'nt put animals to sleep they would have to live longer through pain. So unless this isn't just a dumb joke,please try something else like I don't know,try making a debate that actually has a meaning for a change?

I think both animals, including human should have the right to die if they're in pain.

However, for me personally, I would want to put my pet animal to sleep myself. I would feel more honorable if I had to take the guilt of it.

When an animal is so ill it is no happy it is a kindness putting them to sleep but a healthy animal should not be put to sleep just because of their breed etc (in the UK the Dangerous Dogs act meens a Pit Bull can be killed just because their a Pit Bull which is just plain wrong)

Which animals?

Personally I find places like puppy mills disgusting. I'd only get a dog or cat from a pound.

That said though, so long as we slaughter animals for food, I'm not going to be so hypocritical as to judge. Permanent sleep after a relatively painless shot is easy, living in a confined space waiting to be bought for life is hard. I'm against the second part more than the first by a long shot.

I am troubled by this one. If you say is it ok to put a human to sleep (euthanasia), everyone would say absolutely not! Right? So why would this not apply to animals? Well, here is why. Animals aren't your parents, neighbors or anything like it. They may be your friends, loved, and all that, but when you parents lose their faculties, you care. When your animals lose their faculties, you put them to sleep. Should it be this way? I don't know, but it is!

I dont think it should because if there's an animal with a disease that isn't treatable woul you want it to continue in pain? Sure im against putting it asleep if it only attacked someone, I mean like people attack other people all the time. But do they get put to sleep? No just some jail time. If it does attack someone it should get a shock collar and get re-trained. Maybe take it to the vet to make sue it isn't some sort of medical problem that is making the animal ferocious.

Say a dog had eaten someone (purely theoretical), would you say that it deserved to live. This debate ties in with others, such as:

http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/Should_Euthenasia_be_Legal Should Euthenasia be Legal?

http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/ Do_Animals_have_Rights_3 Do animals have rights?

I think that the outcomes of these debates point to the fact that people should be able to do this to animals. Do animals have rights? is a debate the concludes animals' rights are dictated by us (humans). Therefore if we choose that we can put them to sleep, we can put them to sleep.

I put snails to sleep all the time. Do you want to illegalise that?

i would rather put an animal to sleep than see it suffer. it is better to just end the suffering, then have the animal live through it.

Then it should be illegal to imprison humans (just imprisoning them is wrong anyway, they must do something useful while having everything delivered to them). If an animal acts violently and manages to seriously hurt or even kill a human, or kills domesticated animals, then that animal will be killed.

Honestly, let's not lie, killing is killing, not putting to sleep. As you all know (should know at least), parents put their children to sleep, every night till it is no longer needed.

Old, starving, and suffering animals should be put out of their misery with the least suffering possible.

If an animal is suffering and the vet says the animal is not going to get any better, then putting the animal to sleep is the compassionate thing to do.