Name: Annie
Professor: Mei-Ya Liang
Number: 991002018
Department: English
Course: Sophomore Composition
Professor: Mei-Ya Liang
Number: 991002018
Department: English
Course: Sophomore Composition
Date: January 12, 2012
Research Paper-Euthanasia is necessary for stray dogs but not the first priority, searching possible ways for their living spaces and dignity
Research Paper-Euthanasia is necessary for stray dogs but not the first priority, searching possible ways for their living spaces and dignity
I keep caring about the problems stray dogs face before I took this course. Therefore, I think about many problems which stray dogs face when I try to find a focusing aspect of the problem to deal with, and the problems of their living- euthanasia is the problem which draws my attention. I want to find more information about euthanasia. Is there integrated legislation for every step of practicing euthanasia? Do legislators or some people who agree with euthanasia in our society see whole possible conditions and problems when they want to support euthanasia? Is there anything hidden invisible truth about euthanasia which be ignored just in front of our eyes? Thinking of these questions and being eager to explore the answer, I decide my discussing issue of stray dogs to focus on euthanasia.
After focusing on euthanasia, I find that the circumstances of the shelters for dogs are certainly shabby and poor. For there are always puddles of dirty water all over the floor, cages crowded in tiny spaces, and dogs crowded in cages without any temporary freedom given to them, like walking. Dogs in the shelters first are abandoned by irresponsible owners who can always find excuses for their abundance, and then be sent into the shelters which almost are ill-circumstanced. The treatment to them has no life respect to them, and when it is time for them to go to the end of their lives, the approach for technicians to execute their work duty is even worse. They rudely dragged dogs out instead of gently taking them out with physical comfort, like tender words or gentle petting to them. They ignored the uncontrolled dejections from the living beings which they keep dragging by their own hands instead of caring the revealed fear from them or trying to come up a way to release their fear. They seemly do not hear the begging and bitter crying from dogs and keep increasing their pain through the procedure of taking them to death instead of paying attention to the feeling of dogs and make the real definition of euthanasia “well-death”(Anonymous,p.2) come true. These painful things are only the sufferings dogs have to endure in the beginning of the euthanasia schedule. It is time of the end of their lives when dogs being dragged to their execution ground, however, their death respect are also ignored. The way of euthanasia which called “cardiac puncture”(心臟穿刺法) is a way which uses syringes filled with medicine and stabs right into their hearts. The effect of this medicine is to make hearts paralysis and generally stop working. The right practicing way will end dogs’ agony in one minute. However, the real situation of practicing is that technicians usually stab into their breasts because of the struggling and rebellion from dogs. If medicine goes into their breasts, the medicine will be full in their breasts and make them hard to breathe, they will suffocate to death, and the suffering time will also be longer. It may last for ten minutes or even longer. (The truth of euthanasia in Taiwan
After finding out the reasons which cause problems of present euthanasia, some other problems appear. That is, why does the powerful authority, government seem powerless toward these things? Have they done something no matter encourage or oppose the debating situation of this issue? Or, they in fact constantly ignore this part of social issue? Does their attitude toward euthanasia have any effect on this issue to the society? Another series of questions come up to make me think deeper and more complete.
News can reveal the present situation of the society and be regarded as an epitome of the society. A piece of news shows the attitude of the government toward euthanasia. (The students who took care of stray dogs had been threatened to be punished by school, video clip on YouTube) The event occurs in Qian Jin(前金) junior high school in Kaohsiung. Three students found stray dogs being abandoned in the campus and wanted to take them back to class to take care of. However, the supervisor, school threatens students to record their demerit for their behavior to dogs and sends dogs to euthanasia. Such measures rouse polemic through general public to criticize school. From this part, it shows authority’s attitude toward stray dogs and euthanasia is to choose the fastest way to deal with the superficial problem. They just make the problem invisible in front their eyes to muddle with their duty. Nevertheless, the problem still exists in the inconspicuous corner and gradually become severer for the data shows that the number of stray dogs keeps increasing. (The truth of euthanasia in Taiwan
Authority will affect the fellow people for they have greater power to decide things. Even though the possible alternatives show, they will be concealed because of the reluctant attitude of authority. Power structure is a pyramid-like structure. Majority at the bottom has minor power to wield and can only decide things of their own. Minority, on the contrary, are powerful to decide important things for all. However, this way is using few opinions to decide what major opinions go on developing. The real thoughts will be hidden and cause criticism and recalcitrance.
Therefore, if the solution of the problem can not rely on government, the most powerful one to deal with the whole thing, the majority of the society needs to detect on the shortage of their attitude and policy. The necessary thing to do is searching the possible solutions and urging them to change. By finding solutions, devotions and improvement will start processing.
After finding the problem of executive body, I start to think about the solutions to these problems which are found out. If national measures have to be improved, the foreign measures will be a possible sample for authority to learn. From above passages, lack on concepts of life respect, environmental hygiene and authority’s attitude toward euthanasia and stray dogs is just to muddle with their duty are the problems. Therefore, on the aspects of improving the procedure and concepts will be a set of training plan of technicians. A skillful technician needs to have correct concepts about life because what he is doing is a job about life and he himself also have to educate others to have a correct concepts. Two important factors which make education effective are time and professional degree. A complete program format is a clear illustration which list in “Training Strategies for Research Investigators and Technicians” which written by Stacey L. Conarello and Mary Jo Shepherd. (p.4) It talks about the basic foundation about knowledge of euthanasia to the professional degree built by this program, It has three parts. First, program format is a principal rule for people to grasp the main idea, and the second one is the best-suited material which makes people clear about what is lacked in practice if they want to use the program, and the last one is examples to make the circumstances more vivid and easier to understand. It also provides steps to help readers develop this educational course.
After seeing a chart which makes readers grasp the principal, this program then draw readers’ attention to its content. First, complete a basic orientation program that is described by Hrapkiewicz (Conarello and Shepherd, p.5) and this program focus on ethical concerns associated with the use of animals in the laboratories, which includes practicing euthanasia in the laboratories. Although experiments are necessary to make improving steps, ethical concerns, which about life respect cannot be ignored. Like its example:
Surgical training programs for inexperienced personnel should start with didactic sessions presented by the veterinary staff. These sessions should cover all aspects of preoperative care as well as surgical techniques and equipments. The use of appropriate facilities should be discussed, and regulatory requirements concerning surgical facilities should be reviewed. Hands-on technique training should begin with nonliving models. (Conarello and Shepherd, p.5) Having the attitude of decreasing the number of experimental living beings as possible as they can is a way to emphasize the concepts of life respect. More over, it also focuses on “no animal methods of training” (Conarello and Shepherd, p.6), which uses relatively inexpensive models to avoid using living creatures as less as possible. Like an example list below: For a novice to practice injection techniques, a piece of fruit such as an orange can be used for learning how to carefully manipulate a needle and syringe and to develop hand-eye coordination skills (Walshaw 2004, p.6) emphasizes life respect again.
This program can not only help to improve circumstances of the shelters because technicians will not only simply complete their jobs, but will devote to extension education of this field to common people. They will not regard dogs as a living without feeling, but will make their surviving chances bigger as possible as they can. Therefore, their living places, shelters will also be clean and more comfortable than where they dwell now.
With even technicians also will make dogs live as possible as they can, the concepts of life respect popularize to common people to urge the whole society, including authority, to respect life on the occasion that even though euthanasia is inevitable, many alternatives should be the first priority instead of euthanasia.
Therefore, on the aspects of dealing with living stray dogs, the transformation from TNR to CNR is carried out in “The controversy and reflection of relevant disposal of the stray dogs’ issue now in Taiwan
From these possible ways of dealing with different problems of stray dogs, I hope that the difficulties on their survival and controversy will be lesser than before. The major two ways we use to deal with the problems of stray dogs is euthanasia and TNR. However, things seem stopping improvement when we find solutions to the problems, and the shortages are being ignored constantly. Once the solutions are found, they still need to be examined and improved. Only keep going through this process again and again, will the problem be found and solved. Euthanasia is inevitable, but it can not be the first priority in consideration. Making their survival chances as large as possible should be the goal and the first priority. Such as complete training program for euthanasia technicians and the definition of CNR are the little achievement which just reached, and this kind of discussing needs to be continued to find more solutions. To develop more, we can not only improve present measures more, help it become more useful and less of its shortages to make the practicing procedure more plain sailing, but also can range more related fields and gather more varieties of knowledge to come up better thoughts and solutions.
Reference:
The truth of euthanasia in Taiwan
The students who took care of stray dogs had been threatened to be punished by school, video clip on YouTube:
Stacey L. Conarello and Mary Jo Shepherd(2007)
Training Strategies for Research Investigators and Technicians.ILAR Journal,48,120-130
Training Strategies for Research Investigators and Technicians.ILAR Journal,48,120-130
Anonymous (2007)
The controversy and reflection of relevant disposal of the stray dogs’ issue now in Taiwan
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