I knew a guy in grad school said a man paid him to get rid of a kitten once when he was a kid. He held it in his hand and thrust it into a bucket of water ... and learned something about kittens. He kept his money, since the kitten was never seen again in those parts.
for the record, farmers who had too many kittens born to the cats on their property would drown them and nothing was thought of it...simply a fact of life....and for the record, I’ve never done that but my fil said he had done it as a youth back in North Dakota...