In article JvXLl.89118$DP1.27805@attbi_s22,
Robin Nuttall wrote:
I agree, with one slight caveat, not at all intended to relate directly
to Khan or any individual dog owned by any poster here. It would be my
wish that the owners first think about the dog's quality of life, before
they think of how devastated they will be without the dog.

Sure, absolutely. But there are so many variables that go
into that and it annoys the hell out of me that someone
would go ahead and make that kind of judgment about a dog
they don't know owned by a human they don't know. It's
possible (indeed, common) for a dog to have great difficulty
getting around but be otherwise happy, and so on. Different
people judge "quality of life" differently, and "quality of
life" is made of a variety of components, not all of which
are going to be equal to one another at any given moment.
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