• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Data collection and causes of euthanasia in dogs and cats: ethical-moral evaluation Recopilación de datos y causas de eutanasia en perros y gatos: evaluación ético-moral Levantamento de dados e causas de eutanásia em cães e gatos: avaliação ética-moral
  • Contributor: De Souza, Mariana; Souza, Mariana Virgínia de; Pandolfi, Izabela Andrade; Santos, Romeu Moreira dos; Paulino Junior, Daniel
  • Published: Editora MV Valero, 2019
  • Published in: Pubvet, 13 (2019) 11
  • Language: Not determined
  • DOI: 10.31533/pubvet.v13n11a451.1-13
  • ISSN: 1982-1263
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  • Description: Euthanasia is the humanitarian death of an animal, performed by a method that produces rapid unconsciousness and subsequent death, without the goal of reducing pain and / or agony, or a method that uses anesthetic drugs in doses sufficient to produce a loss of consciousness. The present work is a bibliographical review approach to euthanasia in small animals and to bring a survey process over a period of 25 months, in which 2,982 animals were attended and, 41 were euthanized, 95.12% of which were dogs and 4,84% are cats. As three main causes of this euthanasia have now always been distemper, spine fractures and neoplasms.
  • Access State: Open Access