Just hold your breath for as long as you can. That's about 5%. I've had a pool "accident", nowhere near drowning, but got stuck in the middle of the deep end. Something with not being able to breath and knowing that you can't just stop holding your breath that really gets to you: the initial struggle.
As for the original story, I agree it's more "how" they did it. Just get the gun out...
The solution is simple... if you can't afford to have a vet put down your animal, take the animal to the pound, tell them it's a stray that seems to be in a lot of pain, and came by your house and won't leave. They'll take the cat, see how sick it is, and put it down themselves...
moshquerade
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i guess so. i thought you didn't know why i referenced the freezer.Originally posted by: FoBoT
i am not confused
are you confused?
moshquerade
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I'm guessing you live in a more rural area as it's not likely someone is going to just lend out their gun, granted they have a gun, in bigger cities and suburbs.
And then let it fall into your pool?
Ya dig a hole and throw them in.
Then again, I grew up on a farm, so I think we had a more realistic view of things than the city dwelling "pets are like your children" people do. The whole "drowning kittens" thing does still make me
, though.The box+tailpipe thing is probably about the easiest recourse for your average American. It probably worked better before everyone had catalytic converters, of course.
A few animal deaths I have witnessed:
Slit the throat--a bit of spasming, but fast. There still seems to be that momentary panic, then they go limp.
Drowning--ugh. Panic, struggling. Not pretty.
Cat that was torn up by a dog--box+tailpipe. Took forever. Once the cat was woozy and out of it, shovel to the head.
Loser kid trying to shoot cats with a BB gun--REALLY ugly. Turns out BBs penetrate, but not very well. He had to shoot the cat over, and over, and over...I think it finally died of blood loss. I really hated that kid.
Lobster grilled alive--another one that was difficult to watch, even if it was only a crustacean. Of course, the typical boiling water method isn't much better, although it's probably quite a bit faster. I don't eat lobster now.
Deer hit by car--yeah, this one's pretty fast, but the repair bill isn't good. Might work better for smaller animals.
Shooting or massive trauma to the head is probably fastest and easiest.
Firing squad, because it's fast, the most dignified of those three, and I like the historical symbolism.
Are you really talking about what I think you're talking about? If so, ick. You have to wash dishes in there, you know.
Garbage Disposals cannot do anything about bones. You'll just end up breaking the teeth of it.
The proper solution is lye and acid in the bathtub, amateurs.
The proper solution is lye and acid in the bathtub, amateurs.
Nightfall
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6 pages later, people are chiming in on why drowning is/isn't a bad way to go.
If the cat was in sheer agony from cancer, I think if I was put in that situation, I would want to go as well. Now, if I didn't have a gun, I don't think I would choose drowning as my method of demise. I couldn't take jumping from a skyscraper or something. I think a OD on some pills may be good, as my wife knows what to take and how to take it to die, but I don't know if I could do it. I think that firing squad may be good as long as they could shoot well. I wouldn't want them winging me and then not finishing the job quickly.
Lets face it, all death has some uncomfortability to it. I suppose the only one that didn't have any would be a ground zero nuclear blast if you were right under the missile. Then you would vaporize.
If the cat was in sheer agony from cancer, I think if I was put in that situation, I would want to go as well. Now, if I didn't have a gun, I don't think I would choose drowning as my method of demise. I couldn't take jumping from a skyscraper or something. I think a OD on some pills may be good, as my wife knows what to take and how to take it to die, but I don't know if I could do it. I think that firing squad may be good as long as they could shoot well. I wouldn't want them winging me and then not finishing the job quickly.
Lets face it, all death has some uncomfortability to it. I suppose the only one that didn't have any would be a ground zero nuclear blast if you were right under the missile. Then you would vaporize.
Number1
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The throat method, you did this to cats or dogs?
I saw a pig get its throat slit when I was a kid. It was absolutely horible with blood everywhere and the pig squeeling untill it died.
When I was a teenager, Dad decided that the family dog had to go. It was decided that I would shoot the poor thing.
I shot the dog once with a .22, but the bullet did not kill it, it just took its nose right off. Then the dog freed itself from the leach and ran to the woods. Unfortunatly, I only had one bullet with me. We had to drive home, get the 12 gage shot gun and come back to finish the job. That was the first time I saw my Dad cry.
That was the last time I ever shot or killed a pet.
Sunday morning we foud our 4 years old cat dead in the laundry room. We have no idea what killed it. I just took the body to the dump Monday.
thecoolnessrune
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You can't down the shooting method just because you didn't take take time to aim or restrain your dog. And when I put down my cousin's dog I used a 12 guage with buckshot just to make sure I did it with no way of it suffering. I dont believe like using .22LR. I want to make sure it kills. So I've either used a shotgun, or my .357 mag. I have never owned a pet, I've only had to put down my female cousins pets down because they couldn't bare to do it and it was always some accident where there was no way to move the animal to the vet or it couldn't be put in a vehicle, such as when my cousins dog was shot. It would snap at anyone near it, even its owner, and couldn't be moved. So I took the 12 guage.. It growled once and I took it from behind my back, cocked it, boom. Never suffered. Certainly not as much as it was from the rifle wound to its stomach.
As for slitting throats. That was actually in self-defense from a rotty that attacked me. It kept growling and I unsheathed my knife. When it lept at me I was lucky enough to make a slash right across its throat. It gurlgled and fell dead almost instantly.
So yeah, for me, both forms are fine. I would choose both methods as ways to go for me.
Criminals have been caught because acid does not dissolve human teeth. Teeth have been found and victim IDd by teeth pattern. I suppose it won't dissolve cat teeth either.
Modelworks
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Call the police and tell them the situation.
I imagine they have to have someone who will put down an animal in distress, suppose a deer or something is left at an accident half dead. Do the cops shoot it ?
I imagine they have to have someone who will put down an animal in distress, suppose a deer or something is left at an accident half dead. Do the cops shoot it ?
alkemyst
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Originally posted by: jagec
Then again, I grew up on a farm, so I think we had a more realistic view of things than the city dwelling "pets are like your children" people do. The whole "drowning kittens" thing does still make me
Whatever you'd like to believe livestock and pets like cats and dogs are in a different class.
Also much of what was historical done in the past is often times illegal now; whether or not it still happens.
Cats spend their life in fear of water, anyone who would think of dunking them in it until they are dead is an idiot.
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