I have heard (but I don’t endorse) that grabbing one toddler by the legs and using them as a club would be a successful strategy.
My own strategy, would - because I know toddlers - to open the fridge and serve ice-cream.
Much less bloody, much more fun. Probably more mess, but I can deal with that.
Just don’t shoot them afterwards. Baiting’s illegal.
Right. My friend adored his dogs and talked about them all the time. He did it that way because he thought it was less stressful for the dog than taking it to the vet would be.
Noem just sounds like a psychopath who doesn’t know how to use guns.
My one dog is near End Of Life. He is terrified of vets, despite being a mix of two hard-core hunting breeds.
If there was a subcutaneous option I would do it myself, but I have no experience with intravenal injections.
He is so scared of vets that even in social circles (I am friends with my vet) he runs away and hides.
He’s probably only got a few weeks left in him, and even though it will be extraordinarily difficult for me, i must be there with him.
Even if I owned a gun, I would prefer the anesthetic approach.
The concept of using a shotgun is pretty mind-boggling. What did Ms Noem do with the bodies of her daughters dog and the goat? Just leave them in the quarry? Splattered brain case and all?
I grew up in rural areas, so I am no stranger to guns, farmers, farm life and the inevitability of occasionally having to execute an animal, but as stated upthread, there are humane ways to do this.
As I said, IANA hunter, and I don’t own a shotgun. But wasn’t she out hunting pheasants? That would imply she was using bird shot.
I am not concerned about break-ins; but it’s crossed my mind that if I had a shotgun for home defence, I’d load it with bird shot. Sends a message and discourages such anti-social behaviour, but probably wouldn’t kill a human (unless the wad had enough energy).
I’m sorry for what you are going to have to do soon. Best wishes to your dog.
Run toward them with a bottle of castor oil and a spoon.
This whole thing reminds me of the YouTube “Pitch Meeting” for Guardians of the Galaxy III
How do you make the audience hate the High Evolutionary? Have him mistreating cute animals.
Actually, the direction the MCU took with the High Evolutionary annoys me. They clearly drew it from the later depiction of the HE. As he was originally portrayed, the HE was sympathetic of animals. A Dr. Moreau without the sadism.
Cabrito is a staple of Mexican cuisine. It’s what my parents (hobby farmers) did with their male baby goats (females kept for milk and breeding). They would depart one day and come back in freezer packs the next week.
Because yes, they stink and are nasty when they grow up, but when small and cute…they’re delicious in a taco!
In my area, vets make euthanasia house calls
Mostly the vets in the practice I use do euthanasia of small animals in the office, but will go to a client’s home in certain circumstances. Large animals are put down where they live. In all cases it’s humanely done with a sedative to put the animal into deep sleep, then the heart-stopper shot.
They do that here too, but I don’t live there. I am, unfortunately, divorced and the dog lives with the ex.
We do not get along well, so the vet it is. I could probably manage the traumatic experience in her front garden, though hard. I doubt she could deal with me being there.
We will both be at the vet, but will quickly separate to mourn alone.
As an aside, I used to volunteer for the Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago.
While they are a no-kill shelter it comes with an asterisk. Some animals will be put down in certain circumstances (a dog involved in dog fighting, badly injured, too sick…a judgement the vet there makes).
Some of the volunteers there have the job to hold and comfort the animals as they are given the euthanasia shot.
God bless those people for doing that. I know I could not handle it.
I think I could do it – not because I’m hard-hearted, or tough, but because I’d want those poor animals to feel a kind embrace as they go. Same sort of rationale, in a way, as my adopting elderly cats with medical issues that give them only a year or two with me despite all the care my vets and I can give them – let them spend their last days loved and cared for, to make up for whatever suffering they’ve been through that brought them to a shelter at that stage of their lives.
Maybe this is wandering a little off the topic but do vets have requirements for which animals they will euthanize? If a pet owner brings a healthy young dog into the vet and tells them to kill it because she’s unhappy with the dog, will the vet do it?
I had to put my cat down. 17 years of being an obnoxious asshole ended with serious tooth decay leading to a broken jaw.
I loved that cat, despite his shitty personality.
I did what was best for him. I held him in my arms (belly up, his favourite position, because he could then use all claws to attack, as was his favourite passtime), got him purring, then the vet fed a line of something into his front right leg, and he died moments later.
That, to me, is how you kill a pet.
Not a shotgun.
I’m happy for Kristi to lose support because her views and political behaviour are vile, but I don’t quite get the uproar over this story.
Hunting is a common hobby in the US, particularly in red states; I saw a lot of walls of animal heads when I visited Montana. And no-one on the right seemed to care much about the (likely illegal) trophy kills showed off by people like the Trumps. From the full passage in the book it sounds like this dog was attacking people as well as the chickens (and no-one seems to care about the chickens incidentally), so it seems she put down a dangerous dog.
Before anyone attacks me as a monster: I am as big a softie as it gets when it comes to animals. I do all I can to avoid even harming insects, I’m vegan (for animal welfare reasons…I very much miss meat), and I make monthly contributions to a local dog shelter.
I just don’t get why this thing is so much worse than the other things. Is it that it’s a dog? Is it that it’s her dog?
That’s a question we should probably take to a new thread, perhaps in MPSIMS or even FQ, because I can see it sparking a sizable sidetrack. Do you want to start it?
To be clear, I’ve been there for my pets and held them. Our pets deserve no less from us.
I just don’t think I could do that on a regular basis. I 100% agree with @EddyTeddyFreddy that it is great those shelter animals have someone to comfort them. It’d just bust me up emotionally too much to be able to do that with any regularity.
It’s the way she did it and gloried in it.