Heh, I searched on the net to find a way to painlessly kill a dog. And for a moment i was glad I found this one: the thread began nicely; the guy experienced a problem similar to mine, and was looking for a "humane" way to end the life of a problem dog. The real problem is, most of the responders turned out to be ethic-lecturers.
Now my problem was; there's this block of houses which form a huge rectangular park, a huge garden in our neighborhood, and my house's one of them. we had some 20 cats and 2 dogs living there for years, all good, with no problems. Then there appears this woman who rents a flat, then a week later brings in 2 stray dogs and began feeding them in the garden. "oh fine" we said, "let her feed them, after all that's what we do for these cats and dogs", until the stray dogs began killing the cats and kittens, and it turns out that the woman who feeds them is a complete a**hole. She refuses to listen to anyone, denies that her dog killed other people's cats. She refuses to move the problem dogs somewhere else.
I, on the other hand, warned her that if one more cat dies, I'd kill her dogs.
Guess what? dogs killed again. The other problem is, in my country if I call the animal control guys, she can just bribe them off and the control guys document the case as closed and dismiss any future complaints. Got that? I call them again and they shut the phone off on my face.
Guess I decided to do what? Yep, I started looking for a quick, painless way to kill the 2 stray dogs.
Now before you all go "you can't do that ooow you evil man!", shut up and think for a second. That's real life with gray all over, bot white and black. I'm a Greenpeace activist in my country, I'm called "the good guy" by everyone around me but hey; bureaucracy and dialogue wont seem to solve my problems, and cats kept dying, you got that? In total 9 cats died until I took care of the problem..
So I grabbed my 440 Steel Hunting knife, put on my gas mask to prevent anyone recognizing my face, got 2 pieces of tasty, fresh raw meat and took a walk around midnight. I found the animals chasing yet another cat and I approached them, presented them the meat and while they were digging in, slit their throats as fast as I could.
I'm not disturbed for what I did, let me tell you. I still believe I'm a good guy, I still help greenpeace in their campaigns, and I'm sorry for the life I took. But I'm proud to have protected what was mine. because I had the stomach to do this, the remaining cats and kittens are still alive.
And you know what? The ethic-whiners is partly to blame for any pain the animals might have suffered: I was looking for the knowledge to "painlessly" kill a dog, yet I found all useless ethical lecturing going on on this thread and not the useful info I was looking for.
I wrote this long story so that maybe, maybe some of you ethic lecturers realize the futility of lecturing people. If a man is desperate enough to take a life, but still want to do it in the least painful way, shut your trap if you don't have anything useful to say.