Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from Greek: εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of killing an animal humanely, most commonly with injectable drugs. Reasons...

the possible pain felt by humans and animals. To satisfy these requirements, the active ingredients in the euthanasia solution are usually anaesthetics,...

Insect euthanasia is the process of killing insects "in a way that minimizes or eliminates pain and distress.": 6  It may apply to animals in the laboratory...

mandate caring for the incapacitated and prohibit mercy killing. Euthanasia Animal euthanasia Misericorde Mozambique Drill Editors of the American Heritage...

credited with drawing media attention to animal rights issues, but have also been widely criticized. Its use of euthanasia has resulted in legal action and a...

are ethical issues relating to death, such as martyrdom, suicide and euthanasia. Death refers to the permanent termination of life-sustaining processes...

dislocation is a common method of animal euthanasia. It refers to a technique used in physical euthanasia of small animals by applying pressure to the neck...

offload animals with health or behavior problems that they are not equipped to deal with. Many shelters practice some level of euthanasia. Euthanasia is the...

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Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, also spelled MAID) and it first became legal along with assisted...

for euthanasia for humans as well as animals. It is taken alone, or in combination with complementary agents such as phenytoin, in commercial animal euthanasia...

renders the animals' bodies toxic and inedible, it is mainly used for animal euthanasia, not as a commercialized slaughter method. Whether animals are stunned...

Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, also known (particularly by opponents) as factory farming, is a type of intensive...

Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth independent of their utility to humans, and that their...

kennels, and animal shelters, and established, for the first time, minimum standards of care. Additional provisions, called the Humane Euthanasia Act, were...

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction of suffering or harm by humans upon non-human animals, either...

Machine The Animal Procedures Committee, June 2003 p46-7 Carbone, Larry. "Euthanasia," in Bekoff, M. and Meaney, C. Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Welfare...

Hebrew letters. The killing of animals is animal euthanasia (for pain relief), animal sacrifice (for a deity), animal slaughter (for food), hunting (for...

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Euthanasia (from Greek: εὐθανασία, lit. 'good death': εὖ, eu, 'well, good' + θάνατος, thanatos, 'death') is the practice of intentionally ending life to...

World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi...

Active euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland (administration by a third-party), but supplying the means for dying is legal (assisted suicide), as long as...

population as a result of human actions. Animal euthanasia is often used as a final resort to controlling animal populations. In Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana...

ATCvet code QN51 Products for animal euthanasia is a therapeutic subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System for veterinary...

In legal history, an animal trial was the criminal trial of a non-human animal. Such trials are recorded as having taken place in Europe from the thirteenth...

Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has noted a marked decrease in euthanasia rates since 2011 and Humane Society of the United States reported that euthanasia of animals...

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. It is widely considered within the...

Euthanasia numbers have declined since the 1970s, when U.S. shelters euthanized an estimated 12 to 20 million animals. Most humane societies, animal shelters...

Veterinary Hospice is a family-centered veterinary hospice and in-home animal euthanasia service, recognized as the first organized group of its kind in America...

electrocution as methods of euthanasia. The Philippine Animal Welfare Society has monitored more than a hundred cases of animal cruelty in the country a...