Shooting Foxhounds.

[unlacedgecko]

We had a pony put down by injection by our local vet years ago, and it was far from a criminal offence. She was given a sedative, which bought her off her legs to sitting position. She was then given a massive overdose of anesthetic (or similar) which caused he death instantly.

No trauma, no issues, instant death.

At 35 years old, a painless dignified end.

It was one hell of hole to bury her.

I hope you took her out the stable first.

 

[thesilentone]

I hope you took her out the stable first.

Not only that, we folded her legs in before rigor mortis set in, so the hole was not quite so big.

It also made her look peacefull (well that's what I told my wife)

Life is cruel at times.............

 

[betweenthelines]

Why not just stay with your fluffy unicorns, rainbows and safe spaces.

Meanwhile back in the real world… animals live and die. And we are all complicit.

Yes, animals die.

But very few people regard regard watching or causing an animal's death or maiming as an enjoyable experience or something to profit from

 

[Lowland1]

We had a pony put down by injection by our local vet years ago, and it was far from a criminal offence. She was given a sedative, which bought her off her legs to sitting position. She was then given a massive overdose of anesthetic (or similar) which caused he death instantly.

No trauma, no issues, instant death.

At 35 years old, a painless dignified end.

It was one hell of hole to bury her.

It's an awful lot of liquid to get into an animal (100- 175 mls for a big horse) and quite a performance and not something you'd be able to do to a horse with colic. We did one of our horses a 25 year old ex race horse with a humane killer no fuss nor trauma. We have a friend with a 9mm Glock. When something is suffering it's very quick it's not something she does for fun.

 

[MRT]

It's an awful lot of liquid to get into an animal (50ml does 500kg) and quite a performance (yes it is!) and not something you'd be able to do to a horse with colic.

Nothing against the shooting option but have put a few horses with colic down this way and seen a few more with colic put down this way

 

[unlacedgecko]

Yes, animals die.

But very few people regard regard watching or causing an animal's death or maiming as an enjoyable experience or something to profit from

All livestock farmers profit from animals dying. Death is an intrinsic part of meat production.

Talk about cognitive dissonance...

 

[neilo]

Yes, animals die.

But very few people regard regard watching or causing an animal's death or maiming as an enjoyable experience or something to profit from

Have you read any of the posts on this thread? I can’t think of one that has described that job as ‘enjoyable’. Far from it.

 

[Dry Rot]

Animals cannot predict what they have no experience of (although the opposite often seems to be the case). I can give you plenty of examples of this and it is something I and others on here will use in training or getting an animal to do what we want. Considering death by bullet is instantaneous, I cannot understand how it can be considered cruel. On the other hand, keeping an animal alive that is suffering or in pain definitely must be cruel and is rightly a criminal offence.

 

[Cowmansam]

Not only that, we folded her legs in before rigor mortis set in, so the hole was not quite so big.

It also made her look peacefull (well that's what I told my wife)

Life is cruel at times.............

Grandfather had his cat drop dead few years ago dug himself a hole for it nice square one about cat size fetched cat to the hole to realise the tail had gone stiff straight out instead of bending it round he dug a small tail shape bit to go on the end leaving a hole shaped like a pan still makes me chuckle a bit

 

[betweenthelines]

Have you read any of the posts on this thread? I can’t think of one that has described that job as ‘enjoyable’. Far from it.

So do Hunts and their followers hate what they do?

 

[Dry Rot]

So do Hunts and their followers hate what they do?

Most sensible people get satisfaction from doing a difficult job well, or seeing others doing it.

It always amuses me to read of the house wife's delight in seeing a fox out of the kitchen window. Then that turn to pure vitriol when fluffy little foxy decimates the occupants of her chicken run.

 

[David.]

Sooner badgers start eating cats, the better.

 

[Weasel]

Sooner badgers start eating cats, the better.

Dick

 

[Raider112]

Dick

Badgers eating Dick?

 

[David.]

Dick

Indeed, how so?

 

[Weasel]

Indeed, how so?

Why would you want a badger to eat cats??

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Why would you want a badger to eat cats??

so the general pubic can share our love for them and their exploding numbers?

 

[ollie989898]

I hope you took her out the stable first.

So that is how that thread got started!

 

[ollie989898]

Hounds aren't pets- they are livestock. They live in a pack and when they get old and frail, you have to euthanise them as you would the countless Labs and German Shepards that have to be put down because their hips are shot by middle age.

Hounds have a fantastic life if you want to compare them to their domesticated cousins. Live in the pack, as wild dogs do. Fed and looked after. Constant exercise and the hunt. Don't be fooled into thinking a hound is a dog- no way. It is much closer to a wolf.

 

[David.]

Because the public will keep believing the line that the media feed them; that badgers are benevolent, avuncular characters, lovable and cuddly and harmless.
Rather than the truth, that these mustelids are voracious apex predators, largely responsible for the decimation of hedgehogs, peewits and other ground nesters, are riddled with a notifiable zoonotic disease, and are then afforded almost absolute protection.
When badgers have eaten everything else and then acquire a taste for family pets, the people might wake up and see the truth that they are being denied. It cant come soon enough.
If that makes me a dick, I shall suffer the label with all the fortitude I can muster.