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I can answer questions regarding animals rights from a biblical Christian worldview. If you were to try to place me in a category, you'd probably place me in the 'animal welfare' category rather than say, the 'animal rights' or the more extreme animal activist categories like PETA, ALF, etc. Please know that I am not here to get into debates with anyone, or deal with people wanting an argument. If you want to try to argue with me I am wrong on certain things, don't bother even sending a question. This is not the reason why I am volunteering here. Also, please realize that I am not a bona-fide quotable source for anyone's research papers or projects. I have my beliefs and opinions and have done personal research, but nothing professionally that would make me a good source for such things. I will reject any such requests.

Experience
I am a pet owner of several house rabbits. I have done extensive reading and research on the topics of animals in the bible, how they are treated, and biblical stewardship of mankind on the earth.

Organizations
House Rabbit Society, WI House Rabbit Society, HAWS.

Education/Credentials
BSEE, MSEE, Marquette University.

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Animal Rights - death of my pet my rhesus macaque

Expert: Lee Meyer - 10/23/2009

Question
my baby was healthy and happy till i took her in for a test and 30 minutes later she was gone why , he gased her at 1:30 in the afternoon after she had ate food and she asperated he did not need to put her out we could have held her for him to take blood she was only 2 and was tame but he chose to sadate her not caring about what could happen due to the risk of chocking he gambled with her life and cost my lexie's life and he should be responceable for that she was healthy nothing wrong with her when i took her in, not sick or hurt or old just having a test done that we had to have her tested for we called to ask if he could do the test he said bring her up and we did trusting him to care for her and instead we are left in pain and a hole in our hearts and empty she was not just a pet she was part of our family and her life was taking and he feels he is not responsable it was an accident even though she was healthy and the time we had to put into raising her from 8 weeks old 10 to 12 hours a day holding her feeding her so she would be tame and the cost we paid for her and we are supose to say oh well its okay it was an accident it was a careless choice he made not an accident and he should be held responseable can anyone help us get justice for our lexie

Answer
I am sorry for your loss. I know what you are going through.

I guess if you believe the care received was not right, I would try to find other vets that would agree with that belief, that spend a lot of time dealing with rhesus monkeys (exotics). If you get most of them saying that's not what should have been done, and willing to testify to that, combined with his statements above, you've probably have enough for a civil case. If he's had a pattern of losing other monkeys under similar conditions it would help to show it's not a one-time mistake with this kind of animal.

The problem you will have to address is why you guys used him as a doctor if he wasn't a good one. Only if you had no clue will you be able to deal with this question.

Just know that even if you win it won't take care of the pain of loss, that will still be there. By doing this you are delaying your own healing process and most people don't understand that why they don't feel better after a favorable decision. It deals with your feeling of being wronged, not of the loss.

If you can also get him on tape apologizing and saying it was a careless choice, or even that it was an accident, either one shows negligence. This would probably be critical to your case.

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