[cynwoody]

And then there is this video, made in 1903 by the very inventor of video, who also emceed the event documented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoKi4coyFw0

[21twelve]

Interesting video. Spoiler alert below....
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At first with the smoke and fireworks I was wondering what was going on. And I was amazed at how calm and subdued the animal was during the process.

Reading the story, and seeing the video, I’m guessing it was already so drugged it didn’t suffer too much - I hope so. I have no idea if it really needed to be killed or not.