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The cost of the shots might have been high, but didn't the article say that the meerkats had just been tested, and were awaiting results? Why couldn't the parents wait to see the results? Why did the animals have to be put down anyway? I still see no valid reason as to why the animals had to be killed.

And wouldn't a lot of that cost of the shots be covered by medical insurance, anyway?

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The article says the only way to test the meerkats was to put them down.



As for it being covered by medical insurance, that may be true. But they might not have had enough insurance, or something. There are a lot of things that we don't know.

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Ok, first off, i like animals, they have a right to live, but i am not so crazy that i would prefer that 5 meerkats live over a human being. You say that it is better that a little child is taken away from her parents that kill 5 little animals. Yes all this is a shame, but even if there was a slight possibility that i could have rabies i would also want that those animals be killed and tested to see if i needed the shots. You guys can call me heartless but they are just animals. You are saying that a little child should die because she did something stupid.

Hey, danger is nature's way of getting rid of stupid people. (That's why tornadoes attack trailer parks. o.o) Seriously, though, I do feel more of an instinctual "duty" to preserve my own species before I preserve others...but it's still a difficult dilemma, with a lot of factors and ethical questions involved. And thanks Acekirby for pointing out that part of the article--I obviously skimmed over that. My bad.

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Yeah, they have to chop off the animals head to test them. ewww...