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What? No. You cannot just kill your dog for any reason. That is illegal, immoral, and inhumane.

Immoral, perhaps. Inhumane, not necessarily. Illegal, no. (Where I live, obviously.)

How is a dog special? Compared to say, a rat or a chicken or a cow?

I guess you're assuming that I'm okay with killing rats, chickens, and cows?

I'm a vegetarian, so dogs are not special to me in that regard. I only mentioned dogs because I was replying to a comment that mentioned dogs specifically.

Yeah, I meant that we kill rodents and pests easily. But are sentimentally attached to dogs and try to rationalize it. I am not attached to a dog, and if I wanted to eat it, I should be allowed to.

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