what is the most humane way to kill a fish

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Rabbits are a prey species, their purpose is to be one of the beginning mammals on the food chain, same with most rodents thats why they have so many babies. Many rodents have at least 2 large litters a yr and of those 2 litters if 1 or 2 babies survive to reproduce its a lot. They assuredly feel pain. Pain is a great motivator and teacher to animals not to be caught. Being a prey species doesn't mean that you are exempt from pain. Also almost everything is prey to something else. Only man feels that he is outside this cycle.
 
Wildthing:

I really can't believe someone else has done this! I ran over one of my clowns several years ago and have never heard the end of it from my friends....

He was deathly ill... damaged by an agreessive tank-mate. I thought the best way to end the suffering was to put him in a bag with a little water and put him outside (it was December and about 20 degrees F).

Half an hour later, I look and he's still swimming around.

I feel awful, so I put him in the freezer, thinking it just wasn't cold enough.

An hour later, he's still alive.

At this point, I'm thinking that maybe he wasn't that bad off. Feeling guilty, I put him back in the tank.

The next morning, he's laying on the bottom, still alive, looking at me like 'what ya' gonna do to me now??'

I was a mess. He was my favorite fish, and here I was just prolonging his inevitable death. I didn't have the heart to slam him on the counter or hit him with a rolling pin, so I thought the best way to distance myself from the deed was to tuck him under the back wheel of my car and just.... back up.

That did it.

But my friends still think I'm weird.
 
I actually thought it up one night when my husband and I were driving home and a bunny ran in front of us. He was so badly hurt that it was obvious that there was nothing we could do but I didn't want to just leave him, so I tucked his head under the wheel then put his body over into the grass so other animals wouldn't be attracted to the smell and die in the road as well.

Let your friends think what they will you know you did the right thing.;) Guess who they'll be calling if they find themselves in a *situation*.:)
 
Well, let's hope they don't have to!

Nice cockatoo, by the way. I had one a long time ago when I was a teen. He was wild caught and mean as a ... well, you can imagine. Within 2 weeks of working with him, he'd cradle in my arm and let me pet his belly. Had to get rid of him when he hit puberty, though - WAY too loud for my parents. I wonder what he's doing these days...

Sorry, didn't men to threadjack.
 
I just got one of those floating magnets the other day and promptly squished my finger. If you get one that is rated for the 125G+ aquriums, place the fish between the two pieces, then move the them closer together...

Well, you get the picture. Needless to say, little Nemo will be removed from this world rather quickly.
 
I have always put the animal in a small tupperware container and then froze it. The idea being that the animal slows down and eventually just goes to sleep well before the actual "freezing" ever takes place. Freezing to death is probably one of the best ways to go even for a human.
 
Jonsey, I got very lucky that LaLa is a girl. When I got her I had no idea that males become so aggressive during their mating months. She is a sweet well tempered and relatively quiet little girl. There must be someone looking out for fools like me who fall in love with birds that take one look at you, jump on your hand cuddle under you chin and whisper "I love you" while kissing you and laughing.
 
Good for you she's quiet! Barney wouldn't really get agressive, but he would stand on top of his cage and let out the loudest screams I ever heard, flapping his wings all the while. He'd only stop when I would hold him and at bedtime. He had me trained very well...

They are the sweetest birds, though.
 
I have had to do the freezer thing to a few of my fw fish luckily no salt fishes yet.
I had a cat once that the vet said had a urinary problem cant remember what but they want 250 dollars to put him down so i had to acually put him to sleep with a 12ga. now thats hard to do I mean I love my fish but they dont jump in your lap and start purring so in my honest opinion Id go with the freezer
or the 12ga im only joking
 
frankly since I'm not convinced that they don't feel the pain of slowly freezing to death, I'd go with the 12ga on the fish over putting it in the freezer. I'm not kidding. It might be messy but it sure would be fast.
 
JCoral said:
if a ocean is near by just toss the little guy back to its home
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This act is incredibly irresponsible. Adding a foreign species to a local ecosystem has led to catastrophic damages in many places in the world. Remember, a good deal of the fish aquariusts buy and keep tend to be from the Indio-Pacific region, and are not found in any waters off the US. I'd rather see a fish just be left on the countertop and suffocate, or run over by a car than be responsible for causing some kind of damage to the local fish population by disease or any other ill effects from releasing and exotic species into the wild.
 
ok this is a easy one put the fish in a 5 gallon pale and give a 2 year old a stick and what them have the time of there lives as they cheer FISHY, FISHY DADDY........HAHAH just kiddin
I would just hit it and instantly put it to rest i cant stand to see a fish suffer:(
 
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