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At 12:15 PM 12/30/2005, Sherman wrote:
> I don't think I could make myself do that. What about cutting the 
> jugular? That seems like less chance of missing & less pain. It 
> doesn't hurt to bleed out does it?

First of all, most critters don't take kindly to being sliced open - 
the knife/scalpel/whatever cut really hurts and continues to really 
hurt until consciousness is lost.  Plus you may not get the vein or 
artery you're aiming for right away, and since I've read many horses 
panic when cut and bleeding like that - they thrash around.  How're 
you going to continue this cutting if the horse is fighting 
you?  Plus many people end up cutting the trachea as well, and so the 
horse is wheezing and aspirating blood and coughing while it's 
dying.  or, if they don't cut the trachea, they slice through neck 
muscles... If that isn't bad enough, it takes a long time 
(relatively) for a horse to die by bleeding out, and there's blood everywhere.

This constitutes a lot more suffering than a quick bullet, and in my 
opinion the process is much, much harder (on both the horse and the 
human).  I most definitely don't recommend this as a form of euthanasia.   


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