Shooting can be very "humane". One through the brain and it's all over.
I suppose I will be called insensitive for that. But it's how my grandfather killed his pigs and cows. A .22 through the eye. He never missed.
Yes he did miss, between the eyes and 2 inches up, direct brain shot.
Aside from using a pipe to bludgeon the cats, no excuse for that, there is nothing wrong with shooting a diseased animal. I’m pretty sure farmers don’t keep a cabinet stocked with syringes and poison.
I think this guy spoke up b/c he was worried about other prisoners assigned to work duty there and the chance that they could get caught with a gun, wouldn’t go well for them. The author put the inhumane treatment of animals spin on it.
Animals can be shot humanely, as your grandfather did, and they can be shot inhumanely.
People who club animals BEFORE shooting them are not interested in giving them humane deaths.
The fact that one of the dogs was found *still alive* highlights the fact that the workers were not giving them humane deaths.