• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    Okay but is this seriously a wikiHow image or was it AI generated? wikiHow tells you how to shoot your horse?

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        Wow that’s sad but understandable.

        … Why is everyone looking so cheerful in that page? You don’t smile when discussing euthanasia or learning about it…

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            Feels a little like an Eldritch corporation that doesn’t totally understand humanity, but produces simple guides to existence in a an effort to ease the suffering of our poor squalid souls.

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          It’s a really grim article but it’s goddamn hilarious that it exists. I’m just picturing someone following it step by step without reading the whole thing first. “Okay aim the gun at a point just off the side of the bony ridge, okay…” points gun at blindfolded horse “…now what? Hang on.”

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          I really like this pic earlier in the article where the vet’s stethoscope is informing the owner that the horse has a tadpole and is going to turn into a mind flayer 😁

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          If you’ve never done it before, congratulations, try to keep it that way. If its your first time you’re going to want a tube of greese paint or some chalk. Draw an x using it from the left eye to the right ear, and the right ear to the left eye. The convergence point is the thinnest part of the skull. You’re going to want to use a small caliber hand gun for this next part. .22 is what most vets recommend. A police service pistol is way too much and will make a huge mess. You’re going to shoot the horse at the center of the x with the gun held very close, but not directly on the horses head. The idea is you cannot miss from this distance, but you also won’t create a pressure problem that causes the gun to misfire. The idea with all of this is its the least likely for mistakes. In an emergency, such as shipping a horse overseas on a plane, a trained attendant will use a higher caliber handgun, such as a .38, and skip the x, instead eyeballing it.

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              You never met a passenger on a plane who needed to be euthanized for the benefit of everyone else?

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                Nah, I didn’t fly much, or in ages. Tooth pain an pressure changes don’t go well together. 😬

                But I can totally imagine that being crammed in a metal tube for hours at a time, alongside several dozen/hundred other humans, can very easily become an unpleasant experience.

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              Attendants ride with the horses when shipping overseas. If a horse panics it can imbalance the plane leading to catastrophic failure

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      You’d be surprised at the lack of resources to learn how to do it yourself. Myself for instance? I would’ve thought you should preserve the ammo and pistol whip the thing until desired results achieved.