Putting Down Animals
Does anyone have stories about putting down animals. I got one but I'm a little nervous about putting it out, at least to start with. I thought I would ask the question first and see what other stories there are. It's not the same as hunting stories. Any stories? How? Why? Anything go wrong? Dogs? Cows? Sows? Cats? Mistakes made? Lessons learned?
Not looking for anything morbid, but there are stories.
Not looking for anything morbid, but there are stories.
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I had a crippled beagle when I was a young teen. It was the runt and was born with deformed feet. I took care of Duke, loved him and he was there waiting for me to get home from school everyday. He couldn't run, so the other pups left him alone. He was always glad to see me and we spent all of our time together.
My stepdad got real drunk one day and I was provoking him. he beat me and then drug me out side with a shot gun. He held my hand on the gun and squeezed my hand and finger in the trigger guard making me kill my puppy. He trusted me and stayed right there at the end of the barrel.
My stepdad laughed and laughed and bragged to all his family and friends. and made fun of me for "not being a man" and crying..
That was 27 years ago, and I'm still on the verge of crying now...0 -
what a a-hole[:(]
did you beat him when you got bigger?0 -
Did a dog about 25 years ago.Can't remember now why he had me so pizzed,but since then I haven't had to put anything down.
BUT!!!
If these damned cats keep multiplyin' around here,that may change.[}:)]
BW0 -
if you are sharing your pain about losing a pet thats fine but discussing HOW you killed your pet is being an as*hole! Does it make you HE MEN proud to tell all of us how you kiled your pet for christ sake shut up deal with it without bragging HOW you did it. What kind of sick meanie would tell everybody in detail how you killed your pet! what a bunch of as*holes you are for posting how and just for not saying how sad it is just to lose the pet period.AND TO YOU HUNTINGTURD BITE MY ASS! seems to me you had NOTHING to add at all but your worthless bullshi* go play with yourself as YOU HAVE nothing to say MR HE_MAN who most likely beats his wife and children also 0 -
Originally posted by SFC Hall
I had a crippled beagle when I was a young teen. It was the runt and was born with deformed feet. I took care of Duke, loved him and he was there waiting for me to get home from school everyday. He couldn't run, so the other pups left him alone. He was always glad to see me and we spent all of our time together.
My stepdad got real drunk one day and I was provoking him. he beat me and then drug me out side with a shot gun. He held my hand on the gun and squeezed my hand and finger in the trigger guard making me kill my puppy. He trusted me and stayed right there at the end of the barrel.
My stepdad laughed and laughed and bragged to all his family and friends. and made fun of me for "not being a man" and crying..
That was 27 years ago, and I'm still on the verge of crying now...
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Your step-dad should have been thanking you for not killing him instead of the pup. Sorry [:(!]0 -
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Your step-dad should have been thanking you for not killing him instead of the pup. Sorry [:(!]
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I moved out a couple of years later. He put me in the hospital with some broken ribs... he died a few years after that. I didn't speak with my mother for over 10 years. it has been a buppy road forgiving her.
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Putting down an animal is not a pleasant task for most of us. However, for those of us who have spent time on farms and ranches and around livestock, it is periodically necessary. A well placed bullet works as fast and efficiently as any other means, in my opinion. I do not like to do it, but I have.
My pet peeve are the folks in town (or wherever they are from) that lack the intestional fortitude to deal with their pets. It is far too common that dogs and cats are "taken to the country" and dropped off. The person doing so likely expects (or makes believe) that someone "out there" will adopt them. Many starve or are killed by wild animals. The majority of the remainder are dispensed by the unfortunate person to whom the stray looks for salvation. The orginal owner only avoided his own unpleasant task by assigning it to someonelse.
I was taught that it was my responsibility to deal with those issues with respect to my animals.0 -
Part of living on a working ranch requires putting animals down. You have an obligation to stop the suffering. I have had to put down sick cows that we tried to save for 3 days and I use a 1911 .45 LC. to the head. For smaller pets, a .22 Mag. I hate it, but it is nessessary.
Use enough gun to do it right.
I send the kids and mama to the house and do what needs doing.0 -
I have read where many on here claim a bullet between the eye's does the deed, That may work with dogs cats ect but Not on Horses.
If you ever have to shoot a horse and want it to be a Very quick death, make a line going from left eye to right ear,then make a line from right eye to left ear, where theses lines cross in the forehead is where to place the shot, I prefer a Cal. larger than a 22 for this as I DO NOT want the horse to suffer, I want death to happen before the horse even hears the report from the weapon.
It is always a sad time when I have to do it.
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couple of you making a stink about putting animals down.....i my post about a bull i had purchased then got it hind leg broke....you know what the insurance co wanted done with this bull.....they wanted me to drag it into a trailer and haul it to a salebarn so they could get a few bucks back for it .......thats inhumane and also the bull had been injured for a few days unknown for sure how many, dont check bull pasture every day.....but at any rate what they wanted done was inhumane and would have ended up on somebodys dinner plate.....and i damn sure as hell would not have ate it and sure as hell would not have expected anybody else to eat it 0 -
This ones history.Pretty thin skinned there,mr sensitive 0 -
I have when I was younger. Now I'll pay $30.00 for a dose of serumn. [8] 0 -
I've put down dogs, cats, pack stock, saddle stock and bucking stock and I agree with danlittle here). Shot many a hog and steer for butchering, but by far the worst time I ever had was with a really bad cancer eye cow out on the range, we kept her all summer and she finished raising a good calf, When we sorted and weaned then a few days later I sorted her off the herd and pushed her into a swale surrounded by aspens, I got off my horse and pulled my 45/70 out of the scabbard took a fine bead and she only fliched dropped her head a little, I shot her four times twice in the front just above centerline and twice from the side just back and above the eye, she never lifted a foot during this, but finally jus piled up. I was dumbfounded and felt sorry for the old gal, but evidently the severity of the cancer was the reason she didn't even act like she was being hit. 0 -
DIY euthanasia reminds me of what can go wrong! Many years ago an old farmer, on whose land I used to hunt, told me of his experience in puttng down a bull he had, that had gone mad. Seems the bull was all but unapproachable and was a menace around his farm. So he and his brother managed to get a rope through the bull's nose ring, and run the other end through a stout ring bolt in his barn's floor. Then by hauling on the rope, the two brothers got the bull's head pulled close to the floor. Finally, one of them, I forget which, climbed up in the barn's loft with a 12 guage shotgun loaded with a slug. He aimed for the bull's eye, and pulled the trigger. Instead of collapsing, the bull gave a mighty heave, tore the nose ring out of its nose, and took off at full tilt down the farmer's driveway, and onto the road in front of his farm, smack dab into the front of a passing schoolbus! Fortunately, nobody but the bull was hurt (the bull was dead), but the bus suffered extensive damage, which the farmer had to pay for. That was one DIY put-down that cost the farmer a whole lot more than he expected.
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quote:Originally posted by SFC Hall
I had a crippled beagle when I was a young teen. It was the runt and was born with deformed feet. I took care of Duke, loved him and he was there waiting for me to get home from school everyday. He couldn't run, so the other pups left him alone. He was always glad to see me and we spent all of our time together.
My stepdad got real drunk one day and I was provoking him. he beat me and then drug me out side with a shot gun. He held my hand on the gun and squeezed my hand and finger in the trigger guard making me kill my puppy. He trusted me and stayed right there at the end of the barrel.
My stepdad laughed and laughed and bragged to all his family and friends. and made fun of me for "not being a man" and crying..
That was 27 years ago, and I'm still on the verge of crying now...
Yikes. That sounds like a bad time. Sorry.0 -
For those who do not know, as danlittle stated, between the eyes is not between the eyes. Those of us who have been there know that. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by john w
if you are sharing your pain about losing a pet thats fine but discussing HOW you killed your pet is being an as*hole! Does it make you HE MEN proud to tell all of us how you kiled your pet for christ sake shut up deal with it without bragging HOW you did it. What kind of sick meanie would tell everybody in detail how you killed your pet! what a bunch of as*holes you are for posting how and just for not saying how sad it is just to lose the pet period.AND TO YOU HUNTINGTURD BITE MY ASS! seems to me you had NOTHING to add at all but your worthless bullshi* go play with yourself as YOU HAVE nothing to say MR HE_MAN who most likely beats his wife and children also
Only this: losing a pet usually means losing a pet in a particular way. Some (like me) are fortunate to be able to have that pet sedated and then OD'd on phenobarbitol at home by a vet--and I'm thankful that this was an option for me. I offer those details because I believe I could not have found a kinder way to send my sick kitty off.
Others (and if you read the whole thread this is obvious) do not have the luxury of having a bit of time to consider their options, and have to take more extreme measures because something has to happen right away. Still others might have the time, but not the money to call a vet in to do it at home. In either of the above two cases, the best choice might just be a bullet or some other 'extreme' means.
In any case, it's not easy, and I still say that finding a common experience can bring solace. For a person who felt that they had to put a pet down in a way that they did not like, it might be useful to describe how it happened so that their bad experience might not be repeated by others. Others might also suggest a better way to do it.
Why are you reading this thread if it so offends you?0 -
Had a dog when growing up, a blue heeler...it had a bad hip, arthritic, could hardly move. I grew up on a farm, so my dad had the vet (not our regular) come out to give her a shot.
She took close to an hour to expire, and was obviously in pain the entire time.
As Heinlein said (I paraphrase): When his dog needs to be put down, a true man does the job himself, and doesn't hand the job off to a proxy who may bungle it.
I saw it bungled, and will do it myself when the time comes.0 -
I had to put a cat down ... used a 20 GA shotgun ... worked just fine! Sure was better than paying a vet!
I say, if you're gonna do-it-yourself, use something bigger than a .22 if you want it done quickly.0 -
quote:Originally posted by andersk
I had to put a cat down ... used a 20 GA shotgun ... worked just fine! Sure was better than paying a vet!
I say, if you're gonna do-it-yourself, use something bigger than a .22 if you want it done quickly.
That sounds terrible. I don't think I could do it......except that if I couldn't get the vet to do it, going for the shotgun sounds like a better idea than going for the .22. It's not going to be pretty, but based on the other experiences I've read here, it is likely to be kinder.0 -
It was not really terrible. And it wasn't all that pretty, but I drug him into the woods (maybe he know it was the end of the line or he was too sick to walk on his own) and dug a little hole in the dirt, put him in and shot. It was easy to cover up the hole, and it was a whole lot easier than paying the vet! (Hope that doesn't sound too heartless!)
I do think the key is a shotgun ... git-er-done quickly.0 -
Had a black lab, she just showed up at our house one morning, a stray, took a liking to my daughter, followed her everywhere, we checked her out, no one claimed her, so we did, and so we named her "Shadow".
Had her about 3 years, then about the same time as my cancer and the divorce happened, I was noticing she was wetting herself.....a lot...she would wake up from a sleep ad have a puddle under her...spoke to the vet. One of those high-tech vets for the rich and who have the crump to treat their animals like family, and he pronounced that she was in kidney failure, probaby congenitile, suggested doggie dialysis, at $400 month, which might extend her ife 3-7 months, but would not cure her, and what kind of awful animal owner was I that I wasn't ready to fork over that kind of money, blah, blah, blah,....I'm thinking, single mom, doggie dialysis, or morgage heat, electric,....
A month or so later, I contacted one of those good old country vets, and he put her down, while I held her....0
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