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Putting animals out of their misery. Could you do it?

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  • #32
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    Yeah, Ive broken a lot of lambs necks in my time. When you grow up on a farm, you get used to this sort of thing.

    Ive also seen my Dad shoot a horse, seen another be shot while stuck in a drain, and waved many a former pet calf away to the abbatoir!


  • #33
    Needler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Needler


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    Hd to do this a few times alright


  • #34
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭sheesh


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    Pighead wrote: »
    Thought "I know what you did last summer" was a pretty decent story actually. Each to their own though. Your cruel words have ensured Pighead's next thread will be a lot better.

    Pighead will not rest until he reaches the legendary thread standards reached by you last week when you told the world how to make a turkey less dry in a sandwich. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73035058

    its good that pighead has a dream. :D

    Anyway killing it quickly I feel is the way to go. I fish so regularly do it to fish by breaking their necks as quickly as possible (that or throw them back of course I don't kill everything I catch)

    mammals are different I think if it came to it but the tire iron mentioned above sounds like a good plan.


  • #35
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Of course I would. It would be unfair to leave him in pain.
    later10 wrote: »
    Yeah, Ive broken a lot of lambs necks in my time. When you grow up on a farm, you get used to this sort of thing.

    Ive also seen my Dad shoot a horse, seen another be shot while stuck in a drain, and waved many a former pet calf away to the abbatoir!
    Whenever Pighead hears of people shooting animals to put them out of their misery he's reminded of that tragic scene from Me, Myself and Irene.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWkjSU0U9rM&NR=1


  • #36
    Kat1170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    So you veered to the left and hit him, why did you not just keep going straight and you would have missed him :D:D


    And as for a quick means of dispatch, bite his head off. Worked for Ozzie :p


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  • #37
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Of course I would. It would be unfair to leave him in pain.
    Kat1170 wrote: »
    So you veered to the left and hit him, why did you not just keep going straight and you would have missed him :D:D


    And as for a quick means of dispatch, bite his head off. Worked for Ozzie :p
    Hmmm, that's a good question. Think it must have been one of those sidewalk shuffle situations when you take a step to the left to avoid the person approaching you only for him to also take a step to the left leaving you both embarrassed and red faced. Except for in this case swap embarrassment and red faced for half dead and bloody.


  • #38
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    'Summertime' is my favourite!
    Yeah , Summertime was better . Good Spot


  • #39
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I get my Dad to do it :o

    My dog used to always catch birds and leave them half dead in the garden, so my Dad would put them in a bag and break their necks


  • #40
    Whispered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    When I was younger I brought one of our dogs walking. He was off-lead in a local field, he took a sudden lurch towards something and I heard an awful scream. I called him back and went to look at what he had done. :( He'd caught a cat, but I had called him off before he had finished the job. In the few seconds it took me to get there and see what he had done the bastard crows were already down pecking at this poor half dead cat. So I had to send the dog back to finish it off. :(


  • #41
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    A trip to the vets to get it put down : €50
    A shotgun shell : €0.20


    We're in a recession, don't ya know!?


    Yeah, I've done it before, by gun/foot/lump hammer, and will probably do it again.


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  • #42
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    I'd like to think so.


  • #43
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Yeah no problem, I'm a hunter it's my hobby. So I have know problem putting an animal out of its misery whether by hand, rifle or shptgun. It's the right thing to do if an animal is sufferring, it would disturb me more to walk away knowing it was in pain.


  • #44
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Of course I would. It would be unfair to leave him in pain.
    Odysseus wrote: »
    Yeah no problem, I'm a hunter it's my hobby. So I have know problem putting an animal out of its misery whether by hand, rifle or shptgun. It's the right thing to do if an animal is sufferring, it would disturb me more to walk away knowing it was in pain.
    Pighead's not here to judge you Odysseus but is there a danger that you are choosing the easy option when deciding to put the animal out of it's misery? Is killing the animal the easier option rather than the hassle of taking it to the vet?

    How do you know the animal is about to die? Perhaps he is shrieking because of a broken wing or broken claw both of which can be fixed for a price.


  • #45
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Pighead wrote: »
    Pighead's not here to judge you Odysseus but is there a danger that you are choosing the easy option when deciding to put the animal out of it's misery? Is killing the animal the easier option rather than the hassle of taking it to the vet?

    How do you know the animal is about to die? Perhaps he is shrieking because of a broken wing or broken claw both of which can be fixed for a price.

    If I though it could be saved, and I could get it there, my mode of transport is a motorbike, so it's not easy to tratsport an injuried animal on a bike. But yes if I though it could be saved and I could get it there without causing futher injury yes. That would be the best option.


  • #46
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Of course I would. It would be unfair to leave him in pain.
    Odysseus wrote: »
    If I though it could be saved, and I could get it there, my mode of transport is a motorbike, so it's not easy to tratsport an injuried animal on a bike. But yes if I though it could be saved and I could get it there without causing futher injury yes. That would be the best option.
    Well you're a better man than Pighead. Shamefully this poster would drive away and leave the poor little squirrell/badger/tortoise/elf/ferret/hedgehog writhing around in agony. That sentence doesn't make Pighead proud.


  • #47
    animan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Yeah it has to be done from time to time. Usually a shovel or a stick with some weight in it for small creatures


  • #48
    RussellTuring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭RussellTuring


    Will Smith has no best songs.
    I'm surprised so few people chose the vet option. If it can be saved, it would be the right place to bring it and if it can't, they'd have the most humane method of killing it. I'd also see it as my duty to pay for whatever the vet deemed the appropriate measures since it was my fault.


  • #49
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    A hedgehog? Is that the story we are going with?? :pac:

    On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know the best place in ireland to hideout for a couple of weeks??



    (excellent as always pighead :) )


  • #50
    richymcdermott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,447 ✭✭✭richymcdermott


    Will Smith has no best songs.
    I choosed the vet option and i would go their in a heartbeat if i seen a animal in pain, i couldnt make myself kill another animal if it had any chance to be saved.


  • #51
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Of course I would. It would be unfair to leave him in pain.
    richymcdermott wrote: »
    I choosed the vet option and i would go their in a heartbeat if i seen a animal in pain, i couldnt make myself kill another animal if it had any chance to be saved.
    Is it true that a vet is obliged to put down any animal smaller than a badger free of charge or has Pighead's uncle been filling him full of rubbish again?

    He also said that the most humane way to kill a goldfish is to freeze it in a plastic bag? Never owned a fish so no idea if this is the done thing.


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  • #52
    Undercover_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Undercover_


    Of course I would. It would be unfair to leave him in pain.
    Pighead, You are the funniest boardsie ever. Word.

    If you are not already a famous standup comedian/comedy writer please become one!

    (Dont think I could kill an animal either)


  • #53
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Years ago ...a cousin of mine caught his cat with a frog in its mouth ..he killed said frog....who was injured ....by placing a straw up its arse and a few quick puffs later ..ol, froggy was dispatched to the pond in the sky...


  • #54
    RussellTuring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭RussellTuring


    Will Smith has no best songs.
    mattjack wrote: »
    Years ago ...a cousin of mine caught his cat with a frog in its mouth ..he killed said frog....who was injured ....by placing a straw up its arse and a few quick puffs later ..ol, froggy was dispatched to the pond in the sky...

    I'm not sure I want to know how he or whoever else discovered it knew it would work.


  • #55
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    mattjack wrote: »
    Years ago ...a cousin of mine caught his cat with a frog in its mouth ..he killed said frog....who was injured ....by placing a straw up its arse and a few quick puffs later ..ol, froggy was dispatched to the pond in the sky...
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084
    This was brought to my attention today! Relevant here me thinks.


  • #56
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    RussellTuring wrote: »
    I'm not sure I want to know how he or whoever else discovered it knew it would work.

    well the day he caught the dog with a cat in his mouth...and went looking for a piece of garden hose......I exited...stage left


  • #57
    yesno1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭yesno1234


    Of course I would. It would be unfair to leave him in pain.
    I wouldn't be able to be honest, hate seeing an animal in pain but I just don't have it in me to kill an animal. I know that it might be saving the animal more pain but I would just be in too bad a shape after it. Same reason why I didn't go to college to study to become a vet, wouldn't be able to deal with putting down a pet or seeing a pet in pain.


  • #58
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    I can't understand why some a lot of people find it hard to put an animal down. It's only an animal, do it quickly and it will feel no pain. It's not a case of it being anoth person. Why do people think it's that difficult. Geniune qestion not trying to put people down or catch them out.

    Everbody has the ability to kill another person in the right situation so why not an animal in pain. It just seems strange to me, and I'm psychologically trained so I know I'm not a psychopath before some throws that one in.


  • #59
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Of course I would. It would be unfair to leave him in pain.
    Odysseus wrote: »
    I can't understand why some a lot of people find it hard to put an animal down. It's only an animal, do it quickly and it will feel no pain. It's not a case of it being anoth person. Why do people think it's that difficult. Geniune qestion not trying to put people down or catch them out.

    Everbody has the ability to kill another person in the right situation so why not an animal in pain. It just seems strange to me, and I'm psychologically trained so I know I'm not a psychopath before some throws that one in.
    You're right Odysseus. It should be easy. Especially given the fact that you're ultimately helping out the poor critter. Dunno, it's just the act of smashing a rock over an animals head that causes Pighead to freeze. It'd probably be easy after the first time but it's all about getting that first kill out of the way.

    It's like when you're sitting on a sofa kissing a girl for the first time and you know you should put your hand up her jumper but your mothers image pops into your head and she's tutting and wagging her finger and your hand freezes. It's all about banishing those demons from your head and realising that the best thing for both of you is to stick your hand up her jumper and forget about disapproving parents.


  • #60
    Nulty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,843 ✭✭✭Nulty


    I'd bring it to the vet and let him do it.
    CardBordWindow wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084
    This was brought to my attention today! Relevant here me thinks.

    That happened to an Irish guy by two scumbags at work. He was picked on but he wasn't so lucky...Seriously weird and sick way to die.

    EDIT:

    Sorry I blew that out of proportion....
    Judge Moran said that Bernard O'Donovan had suffered serious life-threatening injuries as a result of an appalling assault and he jailed the three defendants for 18 months.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0212/prank.html


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  • #61
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Pighead wrote: »
    You're right Odysseus. It should be easy. Especially given the fact that you're ultimately helping out the poor critter. Dunno, it's just the act of smashing a rock over an animals head that causes Pighead to freeze. It'd probably be easy after the first time but it's all about getting that first kill out of the way.

    It's like when you're sitting on a sofa kissing a girl for the first time and you know you should put your hand up her jumper but your mothers image pops into your head and she's tutting and wagging her finger and your hand freezes. It's all about banishing those demons from your head and realising that the best thing for both of you is to stick your hand up her jumper and forget about disapproving parents.

    As a psychoanalyst I'm really interested in the image that was in your mind when you tried to drop the hand for the first time.


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