With the capitulation of a major medical association (CMA) and a change in standard-bearer from a ghoulish, lawbreaking pathologist (Jack Kevorkian) to an attractive young woman tragically stricken in her prime by brain cancer (Brittany Maynard), the medicine movement experienced a major resurgence a couple of years ago after languishing to a great degree for two decades. Over that history, physician-assisted suicide has been the strategic focus, but everyone familiar with the movement knows that advocates will not rest until active euthanasia enjoys legal sanction across the land. Now, as before, euthanasia proponents make their appeal to dignity (human autonomy) and compassion, presuming that genuine care and concern for fellow human beings can be legitimately expressed in the act of lethal injection. When the medical bullets are spent without delivering a patient from suffering and severe debilitation, could it not be a grand act of compassion to “put him out of his misery?” Such is the contention and for warrant, not a few proponents would have us look to the animals. If all agree that euthanasia can be a laudable ministration to ailing “Old Shep,” then why not for ailing Uncle Joe? This paper will evaluate the appeal to animal euthanasia as a putative guide or parallel for action in treating human beings deemed beyond medical relief. Compassionate concern for both man and beast, we shall conclude, is right and proper, but its moral expression demands an accounting of creaturely status.