Nick Santino committed Suicide after "Forced Euthanasia" on Pup - Page 2

why people cannot understand that do not respecting animals right are not respecting rights of owners as well? For example, there are squares where is not allowed walk with dogs, the owners of pets could feel themselves discriminated because they do not are allowed to walk with their pets as the other people do.

I can understand it to a degree. Despite what some of you may think, I am not that unstable.   I do understand, however, that to someone with a compromised mental state, feeling alone and persecuted, the pressure could be enormous. My next door neighbor hates Pit Bulls. I have 2. She has done whatever she can to make her feelings known, try to rally other neighbors against me, she tells the little kids on the block at "Simon eats babies"  and I have good reason to believe she tried to poison one in the past. The dog would be sick every time I left her in the yard alone; if I left Caleb out there with her, she was fine. She was friendly as could be and would eat anything; Caleb....not so much. LOL  My guess is it was a lot harder to get near the friendly one with the nasty one guarding the fence. 

Anyway, I have had letters left on my doorstep full of asinine requests for what I should do with my dogs, the consequences for not complying, lies being spread about things they've supposedly done, and it's generally uncomfortable every time we see each other, which is about several times per day! Now, I own this house and have no dog restrictions whatsoever, so it's a little different, but if someone is having some emotional problems to begin with and doesn't have a lot of other things to put it in perspective, I can see how it could come to this. Personally, I just enjoy annoying the miserable woman by doing little things that I know will get under her skin. Her football sized dog is always attacking me when I get out of my car, so I make sure Simon is with me when we return the little beast, and whenever we get her mail by accident, Simon brings it back to her, and other guilty pleasures.   I refuse to let her affect my feelings toward my dog and I refuse to let her impact how the other children on the block view him. That's the stuff that leads to fear-mongering and dangerous stereotypes. 

I agree Jenny, two years ago I lived in a small flat, and my neighboors made my life impossible because of my pets. So that I moved to a big hause, and althoug I have a long jurney every day to my job, they enjoy and i enjoy as well.

Sometimes a depressed person's only reason to get out of bed every morning is to care for his dog.

Yes, I think this guy probably was at the end of his rope and when the only thing that was important to him was being persecuted, he found it too much to bear. My bet is he was suicidal before, and found putting Rocco down to be the best way to make sure he was safe after he killed himself. Obviously, he had to put Rocco down first. I think he decided life without Rocco was too much to bear, so if he had to give the dog away, he may as well be dead. That may be why he wouldn't just try to rehome him. 

Made the "Decision" when I got my pup = 10 year commitment.

Even if that means living in my car (unstable, maybe)
But She's Not Going Anywhere Without ME
She Is Better Than Most Peeps!

From Nick Santino's imdb page:

"Nick Santino was part of the first team to lead search & rescue on World Trade Center 9-11-2001. He used his ConEdison Engineering ID & Asbestos Certification to gain access."

He was put in an orphanage when he was 5 months old, by 16 he had already been in 9 different foster homes. At that point, he decided he was better off living on his own.

He clearly had a tough life, yet had a big enough heart to put himself in harm's way on 9-11... I hope he finds his bliss now, with Rocco by his side.  Blitzen, you're so right about a pet often being the only reason some people force themselves to wake up for yet another day.  I suspect this fellow had joined those numbers.

Ignorance the root and stem of all evil - Plato

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity - Martin Luther King Jr.

Blitzen and Hexe:

Yes, when my husband died , my only german shepherd I had ever known, our trained GUARD DOG< grieved himself to death.

I then got involved in finding another one and when I got into the training and then breeding, my life took another turn.
MY gsd were my life and their existance kept me sane.

I would have not taken my life , but I definately and still today, have a very important task to get me up every day and get it done.

My gsd brought me much happiness, much hard work and much to be proud of, but their accepting me no matter if I was late, getting back to let them out or I left three home and took 4 others with me that day, when I return the greeting I received was what kept me with a smile on my face and I forgot all the other sorrows of my life.

Dog is indeed mans best Friend.

YR

I don't think I'm depressed, maybe a little out of it, but there have been mornings when I'd not have gotten out of bed if I didn't have dog/s to take care of. I think that's true for most of us.

We're all here cause we're not all there?