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Poison-schmoison
May. 1st, 2008 02:26 pmWhat is the deal with peoples' obsession with poison? Bad things happen, dogs get sick. Humans too, for that matter. Doesn't mean the neighbor slipped your dog something! I just had an otherwise reasonable and kind man venting at me about how he thinks his dog that died this weekend was poisoned. The dog had congestive heart failure and pneumonia. The owner is re-writing history in his head now, saying the dog's never been sick a day before this, despite the year of treatment for congestive heart failure...
Now, there is indeed one toxin that I know of that causes respiratory distress and death. It doesn't take 8 days to do it though, and it's exceedingly unlikely that someone would have it laying around and think it was good to give it to a dog, seeing as it's an agricultural chemical. Also, it makes rather different lesions in the lungs than what this dog had.
Am I unreasonable in accepting that the universe is sometimes uncaring and bad things happen without obvious reason, rather than jumping to the conclusion that the neighbors are evil?
Now, there is indeed one toxin that I know of that causes respiratory distress and death. It doesn't take 8 days to do it though, and it's exceedingly unlikely that someone would have it laying around and think it was good to give it to a dog, seeing as it's an agricultural chemical. Also, it makes rather different lesions in the lungs than what this dog had.
Am I unreasonable in accepting that the universe is sometimes uncaring and bad things happen without obvious reason, rather than jumping to the conclusion that the neighbors are evil?
