# Do They Still Shoot Horses?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-shoot-horses/582776>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 22, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-shoot-horses/582776 "2011-05-22T14:12:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-shoot-horses/582776/41 "2011-06-02T05:51:38Z")

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> [@Sunspace](#):
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> I don’t know about horses, but I suspect that there have been legless cows. Where else would we get ground beef? 🙂

What about double amputee cows? That’s where we get lean beef.

> [@Imago](#):
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> What about deer with a broken leg?

[Here’s an interesting site](http://www.diaa.org/DV-injuries.htm) with Q and A about injured (wild) deer. In captivity, they would likely do surgery or amputate, depending on the break. Being only a few hundred pounds, the prognosis for either is better than with horses, assuming the deer survives the stress of darting/anesthesia/etc.

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