Baby Killer!
The answer to all this is. If no one knows you killed it, keepit that way.
Several years ago, some PC totalitarians gave some poor woman static when she tried to protect her Chihuahua from an endangered hawk, and broke the hawk's wing.
The thugs in the "Facists For Wildlife First People Last Association" thought the hawk should have been allowed to consume the little dog. They, as I remember only backed down when the case was made very public, and realized if procecuted there would be big-time jury nullification...