"BlueBrooke" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:09:13 +1000, "Ozgirl"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>"BlueBrooke" > wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:05:15 +1000, "Ozgirl"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>There are more ways than one one out of their misery without death.
>>>
>>> Must be another one of those cultural things. That's exactly what
>>> "putting them out of their misery" means to every vet I've ever been
>>> to.
>>
>>Doesn't anyone here have a dictionary? Or able to understand context?
>>If
>>you were "miserable" with the flu what would you like to have to rid
>>yourself of the misery?
>
> Dictionary? Sure -- lots of dictionaries. Maybe you should pull
> yours out again, because you don't seem to understand the word
> "context." In the "context" of animals who are critically or
> terminally ill, the phrase means to kill them.
>


And you don't seem to understand that the context you are talking about
isn't the context I am talking about.
Put the misery phrase back into the whole paragraph and might have an
inkling of what I mean by context.