Day 4 of Work Experience...

I started the paperwork and research today. Did more computer data entry, restocking, cleaning, spent some time with a sweet Border Collie waiting for his owner, and watched a dental on a Cavalier Spaniel. That was about it, left at lunch time and came home to tend to my own babies.
Opi hasn't been so good the past few days either, so helping Mama has kept me a little busier than usual. She gave me some info to read tonight about the final stages of cancer and dying... it was hard to read that. And it's hard to see him suffering, weak and confused and have no idea how long he has...days? weeks? He had a Doctor and nurse come to see him today, they don't know either, they said it's so individual and unpredictable. It got me thinking...we humans, and animals, are all God's creatures... why is it ok to "end an animal's suffering" and "be humane" euthanising it, but it's not ok to do the same for a person? Or, on the flip side, maybe we shouldn't be allowed to do it to animals, because it's not our place to decide when they should go? I'm not sure of my view on any of that, it's just a bit for thought. But never tell me it's because we're better than we are. Maybe more intelligent and we took over the world, but dang, as a species, we are NOT better.