I decapitated a bird

[Otter]

...I've never heard of a mercy decapitation before. Did you masturbate afterwards? I'd seek help.

[Creed Bratton]

...I've never heard of a mercy decapitation before. Did you masturbate afterwards? I'd seek help.

Yeah he did. After that he set it on fire. Out of respect of course.

[Tommy Dickfingers]

My cats are often catching birds and bringing them home half dead.

If they look like they might survive we put them in a box in the shed with some food and a bowl of water.

 

If they survive the night then we set them free. If not then we don't have to put them out of their misery.

 

Fair play on putting it out of it's misery, I just can't bring myself to do it.

 

On a similar theme, I came home to one of my cats munching on a bird in the garden. All that was left was a pile of feathers. Eurrgh.

[Rhoda]

You should have gone for a viking burial.

[Fireman]

Well I didn't know what else to do, crushing it underneath a rock/stomping on it/driving over it seemed much more painful than a decapitation.

 

So I took the axe we have in our garage and decapitated it.

 

 

I had to do something a lot worse recently

 

In some ways I wish I had just left the animal to die slowly and in pain, but as I'm responsible for their welfare and so I put it out of its misery with the shotgun.

 

 

What animal was it? And why did you have to put if our of it's misery?

Edited August 11, 2011 by Fireman

[Chinatown Wars]

Wasn't there like the SAME topic a couple years ago?

[trip]

So there was a little bird in my backyard who flew against the window near our house.

 

His head was at a 180* degree angle, it couldn't move any bodyparts except his eyes and beak, it was just laying there chirping. So I decided to put it out of his misery, even though it could still chirp.

 

 

Is this wrong?

Being a hardcore animal person, I wasn't even going to read this thread.

 

I think you did the right thing. I don't know how you managed to bring yourself to perform the act, but the bird is better off now and not suffering horribly just sitting there dying.

[AlexGTAGamer]

Well you did the right thing to not let that bird suffer, it must have been quite hard for you to do that.

 

I remember an incident just like yours I had a few years ago. I was at community building in my area with a friend helping the staff there when a wood pigeon flew into these wooden panels that were covering the windows of the main building, poor fella broke it's kneck smacking into the panels, the staff on the grounds buried the bird but it was very sad to see an animal die that way.

[na89340qv0n34b09q340]

Sounds like a gruesome way to die, but being on the spot like that I imagine that's probably the first way you thought of putting it out of it's misery. You did the right the thing, in stopping it from suffering, and now it can no longer suffer, so you probably shouldn't worry too much about it.

[VideoPoker]

I watched my 80 year-old neighbour do exactly the same thing to a badly injured skunk.

 

She was a nice lady.

[nightwalker83]

At least the rest of the bird was whole... That is you don't have feathers, other remains floating around your house sometimes because of kitten/cat.

[blitz]

Yep, I think you did. My dad did the same thing a few months back, we asked my uncle (vet) and he said that there was nothing he could do to save the bird, and that it was ok to put him out of his misery. My dad did so, and I wasn't at all sad but a bit relieved that the birdie didn't suffer.

 

 

[Shaunr]

if you decapitated it in a way where it could still chirp, I think that was a bad way of putting it out of its misery. I would have knocked it unconscious with a blow to it's head, and then maybe suffocated it in a bag. I think that would have been one of the more painless and humane things to do.

[ryuclan]

I probably would have waited a couple of minutes to see if the bird wasn't just trying to shake it off, but all in all I would have killed it. If you didn't then some other animal would have eaten it and I'm sure that wouldn't have been a pleasant death. I probably wouldn't have decapitated it because I don't have it in me.

[sofa_king]

obviously you should have taped it back on and sold it to a blind kid.

 

[OchyGTA]

if you decapitated it in a way where it could still chirp, I think that was a bad way of putting it out of its misery. I would have knocked it unconscious with a blow to it's head, and then maybe suffocated it in a bag. I think that would have been one of the more painless and humane things to do.

A bash on the head would kill a bird easily. Get a spade and whack it is the most humane thing to do

[Fireman]

if you decapitated it in a way where it could still chirp, I think that was a bad way of putting it out of its misery. I would have knocked it unconscious with a blow to it's head, and then maybe suffocated it in a bag. I think that would have been one of the more painless and humane things to do.

It still chirped when it was on the ground, not after I hit it.

 

I wasn´t sure if whacking it would kill it without feeling pain, so I didn´t.

 

[Dingleman]

By the sounds of things the bird was paralysed neck down, and there would have been a one in a million chance of a semi-recovery which would be overwhelmingly painful for the bird anyway. I think you did what you thought was best, and what I probably would have done too.

[danjodan]

Meh, As long as it died quickly I think you done the right thing.

 

[Attorney General]

if you decapitated it in a way where it could still chirp, I think that was a bad way of putting it out of its misery.

Is that a serious reply?

 

Anyway, yeah bro, you did the right thing. They don't make little wheelchairs for birds.

[Finn 7 five 11]

What I've learned is to not interfere with nature.

Putting a window there is interfering.

Hahaha nice!

 

Nothing wrong with it, IMO, you should feel some regret, but thats probably only because the bird died, chances are it had no chance anyway.

Provided you did it real quick and painlessly.