For the comfort of the animals and the safety of everyone involved, it should be a requirement that animals be sufficiently sedated prior to their euthanasia.

I strongly believe an animal should be sedated before euthanized as most are afraid and in strange settings at this time and the purpose of euthanasia is to relieve suffering .

Your pets need to be sedated before they are euthanized

Our animals deserve to die without horrible anxiety. Sedation prior to euthanasia should be a REQUIREMENT of veterinary practices.

Please require that all animals be sedated when being euthanized. It is cruel and painful for an animal to go through this without being sedated. It is easy to do first and would greatly help the suffering pet and the owners who are with their pets at this very sad time. Thank you.

Please require that animals be put down only by an intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbital administered by a trained professional since it is the kindest, most compassionate method of euthanizing animals.

My cat was NOT sedated prior to being euthanized. He was 18 and I knew all his cried.He howled in pain as the process was on going before his body spasmed in death throws. It was barbaric and inhumane. Please require that ALL clinics sedate animals prior to being euthanized. I am still having nightmares where I hear him scream out and watch his body convulse. I already suffer from PTSD and this just made the whole situation worse! Don't let his death or my suffering be in vain!

Sedating an animal prior to administering euthanasia should be mandatory across the board. There is no reason to allow an animal to suffer unnecessarily, especially when additional suffering can be prevented with a widely accepted, simple veterinary procedure.

It's the humane thing to do. Better for the animals and their owners. 

Please make it mandatory for vets to administer sedation when euthanizing pets.  This is the right and humane thing to do both for animals and humans.  Please do this kind thing for all involved.  It's such a small but needed requirement that could easily be implemented.

Thank you.

Debbie

Please make sedating an animal prior to euthanasia mandatory across the board.  This would be the only humane way to let a loved pet go.

Everyone I know ,including myself considers their pets to be their own children. This is a horrifying practice and must be regulated and stopped.

Sedation sufficient to prevent or minimize suffering, pain, and anxiety must be used in animal euthanasia.

According to the regulations on pg 5, methods of Euthanasia ...it clearly states that chemical used to euthanize a companion animals should be combined with sedation. Why would an emergency clinic tell me it wasn't their policy nor was it necessary when it obviously WAS! Is the VDACS not a valid organization? I need answers, please.

Animal cruelty is a crime and neglecting sedation prior to euthanasia is just plain cruel.  Please make this a requirement for all veterinary practitioners.  They ought to know better but if they do not, it must be required.

I support the regulation to require sedation of an animal to be euthanized.

We owe it to them to be as humane as possible.

Please sedate an animal before euthanasia, it is the humane thing to do.

I am writing to ask the board to require the sedation of animals when euthanized by veteranarians. I was saddened to hear a friend recount thier experience watching their pet writhe in pain while being euthanized.  We must ensure an animal does not suffer during the final act of kindness we can give an animal.

I fully support legislation requiring sedation being administered to animals prior to euthanasia

Please sedate the animal before it is euthanized

this is absolutely barbaric. a death row inmate receives more humane treatment than our innocent fur babies do. this must be changed. it’s so simple to do and i don’t even know why this is a topic of discussion. please do the right thing and make sedation a requirement before euthanasia 

please sedate all animals prior to euthanasia.  

I support this legislation.  

Sedation before euthanasia 

Be humane- it should be mandatory for a vet to sedate an animal before euthanasia 

Pre-euthanasia sedation is good practice, plain and simple. Euthanizing a pet is one of the most difficult things anyone has to go through. Compassion needs to be shown to both the pet and the owner by taking the time to sedate the pet before euthanizing. Let those last few moments be peaceful instead of doing undue trauma. 

I support this measure on pet euthanasia

Animals MUST be sedated before euthanasia!

Please require sedation before euthanizing. 

Stop needless suffering in animals who are already in considerable pain.

Please end the useless suffering of animals by sedating them before euthanizing. 

I urge you to require that veterinarians use methods of euthanasia which do not cause pain and additional suffering to animals already suffering.

As an animal lover, I never would have thought that a veterinarian would not sedate any animal before administering medication to end its life. Maybe I've been naive or sheltered, but I thank God all of my experiences have been painful but not traumatizing.

Please consider making sedation mandatory before euthanasia.

As a cat owner I just cannot imagine this owner’s heartbreak over the torture of her beloved pet. I cannot even imagine how or why a licensed vet would do such a thing. Don’t physicians take an oath to “do no harm?” Perhaps vets need to do the same. This should definitely be regulated and required to protect the sweet animals who love us and trust us to do what is best for them! 

Veterinarians take an oath to don’t harm and eliminate suffering. This procedure must include anesthesia to ease the pain of the animal and lessen the trauma on the loved ones!

Animal cruelty is illegal and should not be tolerated because someone is a vet. Cruelty is behavior that causes pain to an animal that CAN BE PREVENTED. 

Not to sedate an animal before putting it down is cruel and inhumane, both for the animal and the owner. Please require ALL clinics to sedate animals prior to euthanasia.

I support requiring ALL clinics to sedate animals that are to be euthanized. Anything else is a horror for the owner and the animal. This needs to change!

Support sedation before euthanasia.

I was unaware that some clinics do not sedate an animal before euthanasia. This is outrageous! All clinics should be required to sedate an animal prior to euthanasia. Anything less is barbaric!

All clinics should be required to sedate an animal before putting it down!!!!!

Why aren't all clinics required to sedate animals before they are euthanized. I had no idea there were clinics that didn't sedate until my friend made me aware of what happened with her precious pet. This is inhumane!

How could any clinic NOT sedate an animal to be put to sleep. The phrase put to sleep even implies sedation! Please require that all clinics sedate animals before they are euthanized as a matter of law! The owners are already suffering so do not make it worse by not sedating their beloved pets! Ghastly!

Please require ALL veterinary clinics to sedate an animal before putting it down. Unthinkable that there are some clinics that don't do this. It needs to be regulation or it will continue.

In this day and age there is no excuse for any animal not being sedated at the time of being euthanized. It is cruel, intolerable for the owner and needs to change immediately!

I didn't know that some clinics do not sedate animals before their euthanization. This cannot continue. Surely it can't be the cost because a pet owner would be willing to pay whatever it takes to know their darling companions will pass in peace. How many reports do you need before this is changed? How many have to suffer?

I am appalled to think there is any clinic that has a policy for euthanasia that does not include sedation. Even the VDACS required sedation of companion animals. My friend suffered greatly when her cat was put the death in front of her without sedation. She was traumatized by how he obviously suffered by not being sedated. I encouraged her to file a formal complaint but she said that wouldn't ease her trauma or the nightmares she has suffered ever since. Knowing she has made a difference to prevent this from happening to others might help. Please require that all clinics use sedation prior to euthanasia!

Sedation wasn't used when my friend helped her 18 year old cat cross the rainbow bridge. She still hasn't recovered from the trauma. Animals and their owners shouldn't have to be in pain at the time of their passing. Please make it a regulation that every clinic should sedate an animal before it has to be put to sleep.