Vet-to-Vet Collaborative:
Behavioral Euthanasia E-Consult

  • Reviewer: Ariel Fagen, DVM, DACVB
  • Turnaround Time: 3 business days 
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Description
A complimentary service to veterinarians faced with a request for behavioral euthanasia to help you understand if the euthanasia is an ethical choice.  We all have tough decisions to make - let us help relieve the burden of this one.  Rest easy knowing that a veterinary behaviorist laid eyes on the case before an irreversible choice is made. 

  • Estimated time for you to fill out the form: 10-20 minutes
Why we are doing this

So you can sleep at night

Behavioral euthanasia is one of the hardest decisions a client can make as a pet parent.  The moment can be fraught with guilt, indecision, frustration, disappointment, anger and more.  As a veterinarian confronted with this request, we can feel fraught with similar emotions, especially if we do not feel we have all the information we need to make an ethical decision.  And not every client can pursue a consult directly with a veterinary behaviorist who can guide the veterinarian on what may be appropriate.  This is one way we can serve you the veterinarian, to help you sleep at night, to help you understand when its reasonable to proceed and when additional information may need to be gathered first. We hope this consult helps protect the mental health of every day veterinarians, who are tasked with what is at once the greatest burden and the greatest gift.

Ariel Fagen, DVM, DACVB

Founder, The Veterinary Behavior Institute
Owner, Medical Director, The Veterinary Behavior Center
who you are consulting with:
Dr. Fagen has been practicing veterinary behavioral medicine for over 10 years.  In that time she has been confronted with the concept of behavioral euthanasia dozens of times, as well as gained an understanding of when its reasonable to keep trying or look for a re-home, and when its not. 

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