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I'll take it as a given that no one wants to see an animal suffer!
So if one was about to die a slow painful death. Say, a mouse had been mauled by a cat and there was no vets around.
Could you put them it out of their suffering?
Might be a weird question..it comes off the back of another thread.
Have you ever had to?
I'd want to but I don't think I could!
Maybe you live in the country and there's been injured birds with broken wings!
Did you ever see the Raymond show.. where one family thought it was heartless when the other family broke the neck of a bird with a broken wing.
Whilst the other family couldn't understand their attitude and thought it hearless to let it suffer!
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Yes, had to do it a few years ago when I found a fox in the road obviously dying and in a lot of pain.
I’ll never forget it’s cry so did the right thing. Felt really bad for a few days afterwards. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes I’ve done it a few times... once when hunting when some dopey arsehole took a shot from a distance completely wrong. It ran about a mile before we found the poor bugger... |
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"I find it strange that lots of people will call it ‘humane’ to put an animal to sleep if it’s suffering, and yet if a person is they have to go to Switzerland "
That’s because the don’t wish to open a can of worms on assisted death/suicide. It’s a very big can of worms too |
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By *anae21Woman
over a year ago
Nearer than you think |
I agree with Vine; what a strange double standard we have in the UK about quality of life.
I've "dispatched" many birds for a friend whose three cats never seemed to do a proper job of catching them. She's since put bells on their collars. |
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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago
local, but not too local |
"Oh god. I’d like to think I would. If it was really bad I’d have to. I really hope I’m never in that situation though x"
This. But I hope there would be a grown-up there to deal with it for me instead.
I know it’s the right thing to do but genuinely not sure if I could. |
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"I could, I have. You’ve just got to do it
Fair play to you..I'd like to think I would but...I'm not sure and that feels selfish , really"
You have to try and not think about it. If possible, I always cover it and then deal so don’t actually see the impact but know where you are aiming |
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"I'll take it as a given that no one wants to see an animal suffer!
So if one was about to die a slow painful death. Say, a mouse had been mauled by a cat and there was no vets around.
Could you put them it out of their suffering?
Might be a weird question..it comes off the back of another thread.
Have you ever had to?
I'd want to but I don't think I could!
Maybe you live in the country and there's been injured birds with broken wings!
Did you ever see the Raymond show.. where one family thought it was heartless when the other family broke the neck of a bird with a broken wing.
Whilst the other family couldn't understand their attitude and thought it hearless to let it suffer!
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I remember hitting a rabbit while driving and my girlfriend at the time was upset. I looked back in the mirror and saw I had only gotten it’s back half and it was still trying to run across the road without the use of its back legs.
I got out and stood on its head a few times.
She never forgave me. Massive fight. Couldn’t get it through to her head why I did it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have had to do it once with a dear that got hit, was dreadful but you could tell how much pain it was in. The driver and his mates were just sitting in the car without a care watching it suffer |
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As lots of us don’t come into contact with death in our own lives or in the natural world, we have an underlying fear of it.
Many animals do die a slow or painful death, through injury, lack of nutrition or simply age. But on the occasion we see this suffering and we have the ability to stop it, it is the humane thing to do. It’s not a heartless act, it shows strength and compassion.
I have ‘dispatched’ animals I have come across to end their suffering. It’s never an easy thing to do, but the acceptance of death in the natural work can help towards a better understanding of death in our own lives.
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Grew up on a farm, I have done it and I would again. But the worst one was seeing my grandad who had to shoot one his dog. The farm next door had put poison out for the foxes, which the dog ingested. We phoned the vets who said the most humane thing would be shoot the dog. Everyone was devastated, but it was the right thing to do |
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"Grew up on a farm, I have done it and I would again. But the worst one was seeing my grandad who had to shoot one his dog. The farm next door had put poison out for the foxes, which the dog ingested. We phoned the vets who said the most humane thing would be shoot the dog. Everyone was devastated, but it was the right thing to do "
I bet they were! But yes.. the right thing to do |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes, I've had to kill a few rabbits which my dogs had caught but were still living and suffering. Strangely I learned how to best do this from an article by Germaine Greer who had the same problem with her dogs. |
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I remember hitting a rabbit while driving and my girlfriend at the time was upset. I looked back in the mirror and saw I had only gotten it’s back half and it was still trying to run across the road without the use of its back legs.
I got out and stood on its head a few times.
She never forgave me. Massive fight. Couldn’t get it through to her head why I did it "
Imagine what might have happened if you put it in the boot and asked her to cook it for dinner?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Yes, I've had to kill a few rabbits which my dogs had caught but were still living and suffering. Strangely I learned how to best do this from an article by Germaine Greer who had the same problem with her dogs."
Glad my dog just kills them! Cat though ... luckily dog does that too! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yes, I've had to kill a few rabbits which my dogs had caught but were still living and suffering. Strangely I learned how to best do this from an article by Germaine Greer who had the same problem with her dogs.
Glad my dog just kills them! Cat though ... luckily dog does that too! "
OMG finishes rabbit off not kills the cat! Whoops! |
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I remember hitting a rabbit while driving and my girlfriend at the time was upset. I looked back in the mirror and saw I had only gotten it’s back half and it was still trying to run across the road without the use of its back legs.
I got out and stood on its head a few times.
She never forgave me. Massive fight. Couldn’t get it through to her head why I did it
Imagine what might have happened if you put it in the boot and asked her to cook it for dinner? "
I've that Alaska programme and they'd cook it in a heartbeat.
Food is at a premier |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I could. I've done so before. I saw lots of animals being killed as a child. A family member was an amateur butcher heh. Not certified but trained by someone before anyone freaks out. Different times. So whether I wanted or not I am quite used to the sight. Some moons ago I have been to some slaughter houses too because of work and other family members work. I have a bloody family  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When people talk about animals, are insects and the like included?
When you hear the crack of a snail shell you just stood on, did you go back and see if it needed help? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have to shock a few of you and say I have killed animals with my bare hands.
I've ringed a few chicken necks and used a brick on a rabbit after a fox attacked it.
They couldn't be saved so it was for the best.
You just get on with it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I once ran over a wild rabbit - by accident.
My date who I was with got out and put it out of its misery.
I cried all the way home.
I didn't go on another date with him again. I think my blubbering put him off
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
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"I've done it more than once, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat if it would stop an animal from suffering...it's not pleasant, but I'd imagine it's more pleasant than the pain the animal is in. "
Same.
It is not easy, and never gets easy. But you do get a sense of it being the right thing if there is no other option.
Some people will view it as cruel, but in those specific situations it is by far the kindest thing you can do for another living creature. Becomes a truely selfless act, putting yourself through something (potentially) traumatic for the well being of another living creature that you have zero attachments to. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No i have to do this regularly with our hens.
i cant let them suffer gasping for life i give them a donk and put them out their misery. Same with any of our animals.  |
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I would get someone else to do it.
I just couldn't 
