That sucks bro :( i know i wouldn't have been able to kill it with anything. So if i did i would have a very good idea of how you feel.

<font color="#ff00cc">I think you did the right thing. I have had to do similar things on a few occasions. I was lucky that I had firearms to work with and it was a quick and reletivley painless affair. Just remember that you helped to ease its suffering in the long run.

The callous and snide remarks about hurting your boss instead, show a lack of depth and character and do nothing to appreciate your turmoil over a hard decision. I think you did well. I also think you did the right thing. </font>

[img]graemlins/dropatear.gif[/img] How sad...I once hit a jack rabbit while driving. I stoped becouse I saw it still moving in my rear view mirror. I went back to see how bad it was, thinking I might have only nicked him, but he was pretty bad. His hips were broke. He was trying to crawl off the road. I knew this rabbit would not survive the coyotes wounded like that, so I killed it with my hands. I broke its neck. I cryed after that. Im a big man, thats not afraid of to much, but helpless animals are weakness (or strength) to me. I dont hunt or even fish. Anyway, I can understand what you went through, and am sorry for it. [img]graemlins/verysad.gif[/img]

Well you did the right thing. At least you had the guts to put the poor thing out of it's misery. I know more than a few people (myself included) who would've just left it there. It would've suffered much more that way. :(

<font color="#ff00cc">I may have been a bit harsh about the comments about your Boss, but I saw them as being flippant and insensitive to your pain about this issue. :( </font>

O_o A true life story of good and evil! wow!

That's horrible what you had to do.I would have just said screw the boss I'm getting my gun. I agree with johnny.You tryed to do the best thing could have done.

Tell me you didnt just kill it and leave it there to rot. Tell me there is more to the story than just bashing in the skull of some trusting creature and then leaveing the carcass to bloat up and rot in the sun. Dont hand me that "ease the animals suffering crap either. How would you like it if someone came a long and bashed in your head just because they thought you were ill and wouldnt make it? The utter wastefullness of it makes me ill.

[ 12-02-2002, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: The Hunter of Jahanna ]

<font color="#ff00cc">Umm Hunter? you don't spend much time in the wilderness do you? The normal life cycle of animals in the wild is full of quite a bit of suffering and misery when the end comes. A quick death is far preferable to a long, lingering pain wracked death any day. Disney (before the days of political correctness) had a documentary about how animals Deer in particular went through life, and they did a detailed filming of sick and weak animals dieing....not pretty at all nor humane. Im not sure that Roo's make for good eating, besides the meat was probably already infected if the animal was already to the point where it couldn't get up, mangled linbs probably already had gangrene setting in. Leaving the carcass for the scavangers at least allowed the animal to complete the cycle and give back to the land.</font>

Acctualy I spend a lot of time in the outdoors ,especialy around this time of year. I have no problem with people killing animals as long as they are going to eat what they kill. All too often I find carcasses from animals that the hunters were either too lazy to collect or too dumb to find. Things like that just aggravate the shit out of me because its completely senseless and wastefull. Killing animals just for the sake of killing them is senseless. So is killing them to "put them out of their misery". Over the years my family has bagged a few deer with healed injurys from car accidents on them. If a deer can heal up a broken leg , shoulder or ribs I am pretty sure just about any other large animal can do the same given sufficient time. I am also sure that nothing on the planet can heal itself after it has had its head bashed in. I would rather give the animal a slim chance at life than a sure chance at death if I wasnt going to put its meat and skin to some sort of use.