Why a guide for ethics in veterinary practice? Focus 1: Killing animals. A better death. Animal-friendly killing. The Ethical Matrix. Two norms of veterinary practice. Conflicts of norms as the norm. Annotated selected bibliography. Carcass - Creature - Cutlet. Slaughtering. Concept cloud as mapping. On ethics and virtues. Annotated selected bibliography. Carcass - Creature - Cutlet. Thighs. Animal Disease Intervention Matrix. The diversity of veterinary roles. Annotated selected bibliography. Focus 2: Animals - a living resource? Commodification without consideration? Moral practices in dealing with animals. The Responsibility Check. Rhetoric - How is better argumentation possible? Annotated selected bibliography. Focus 3: The overwhelmed human. The human as the measure of all animals. Animal Hoarding - When animals take over. The ethical decision path. Cultural background slides of the human-animal relationship. Annotated selected bibliography. On the way to an ethics in veterinary practice.