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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

Death is one of those things that some people can't deal with. My
father, a farmer for about 70 years loved his cow and calf operation
and his cattle, but Mom was in charge of putting down those who needed
putting down. I married a city boy who was tough in many ways, but not
when it came to killing animals he was attached to. At this point, I'm
pretty sure I could execute about anyone because if any killing has
needed doing, I've done it.

Moon, get a .22 and make sure you know where in the head to put the
bullet. It's the easiest way to go, and it doesn't spoil the meat for
eating should you want to. Delivering clean, painless death is a good
thing. It's a pity we can only do it for non-human animals.

Marie

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:45 PM,  <paxamicus AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> Well, it turns out that 15 ccs of banamine im is enough to quiet a ewe
> to the point where I can hit a vein without a second pair of hands. Of
> course, this makes her both inedible and uncompostable, but also out
> of pain.
>
> Lynn, under normal circs, I would have given her some time too, to see
> if it would knit, or get better, but she was obviously in pain, it was
> obviously broken, and she was destined to be culled, anyway.
>
> I used my car to drag her out of the barn, she weighs every bit as
> much as I do and I couldn't get her out any other way.  She's under an
> over turned wheel barrow right now. I'll have to figure out what to do
> with her tomorrow.
>
> Sometimes life just sucks.  I really want to talk to Roy but why wake
> him up with such sucky news? Thanks for commiserating and letting me
> bitch.
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