Long time ago when I did a little ranching we usually used a bullet to brain box, sometimes frangible s depending on surface area. Later I worked with a vet and we gave then a medical concoction( injectable) and they felt no pain, just went to sleep. Either one is efficient. Sorry to kitties lovers but ranches and farms get inundated with stray kitties; have to so something.
True. Life ain’t easy. It’s the dying that’s hard.
“...ranches and farms get inundated with stray kitties...”
Why? Do people dump them outside of cities? Or are there that many ferals?
I rented a cottage on a farm. The little girl just had a new kitten. “So a cat only has one baby?” she asked her dad. “Yep - usually just one.” I gave him a sideways glanced.
After the girl was gone he said “Yeah - she doesn’t need to know they have a bunch. I put the rest in a gunny sack with a rock and toss them into the pond.” Although I didn’t say anything he could tell from my shocked look I guess (suburban college graduate). “It’s a farm. There’s already enough cats to keep the critters down, but it wouldn’t be long before we’d be overrun. It seems as humane as any other way.”
I get it I suppose, but it would seem just as easy and more humane to put a .22 into their head, or bonk them over the head with a sledge hammer.