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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?
Yes it does
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...
WikiHow had a certain style to it. I love it
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.
Reminds me of that scene from Fight Club. Apparently everyone on WikiHow is high on concentrated oxygen 😄
That was actually sad to read, even being a hypothetical situation.
Because they don’t have to beat it afterwards? 🤷🏾
What the fuck is wrong with you?
“Beating a dead horse” is an old saying/idiom in the US meaning “that a particular effort is futile, being a waste of time without a positive outcome,” such as flogging/beating a dead horse, which will not compel it to do useful work. Maybe it didn’t land as well I thought it would.
For reals. Those human empathy/nurturing emotions are strong.
Yeah, that's some serious chronic severe lameness 😟
Step 8) ensure that your horse is dead.
This guide is perfect
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."
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 😁
Noooo curse you internet! 😂
Also this isn't how you shoot a horse
How do you properly shoot a horse if not like how the wikihow says?
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.
Welp, that’s enough Lemmy for me today.
Both my parents were large animal vets. I kinda didn't get an option not to learn this
Interesting although solemn
The actual article is mostly the same unless I missed something
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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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They are sedated to oblivion. Its just that like any sedative or anesthetic it can wear off if things get so stressful that the drugs turn out not to be enough.
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The horses that ship internationally like this are generally worth $1M+ so its not like this was the solution every settled on as "eh, good enough" and more like, even with all this time and effort, this is still the beat solution we can come up with. Also for what its worth, I don't know that this measure has ever been taken in my lifetime. The sedatives have always worked in every case I've know. Putting down a horse in international shipping for safety is an extreme edge case
You never met a passenger on a plane who needed to be euthanized for the benefit of everyone else?
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.
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.