Yeah I don’t think this guy is cut out for coldly using fluffies for projects and then disposing of them immediately afterwards. There is, after all, a huge difference between immediately disposing of invasive pets versus a slow death from an apparently reversible condition ( its just not the point of the experiment to save them, and then what would he do with them anyway? They’d ruin the compost fluffies if they were de-limbed and added in there, and if they went back to the shelter it would just be the incinerator ). He should probably excuse himself from collaborating on future such projects, just so he doesn’t end up messing up good ideas.
I have a few relatives that have small farming projects on their land ( one has goats, another kept chickens until the local hawks proved to be too problematic to be worth keeping them ). I was under the impression that the most efficient way to dispatch chickens was to put them in upside down traffic cones with the tips cut off to form a funnel- the cone would keep the chicken from being able to harm itself via thrashing about too much until all the blood ran to its head and it passed out, then a quick cut to the jugular would end the chicken within a minute or so if not quicker. I could see that method working good for fluffies.
But its also realistic for the farmer to be unprepared for dispatching a talking horse-rat-pig. I recall being told about a farmer who was going to shoot a pig for food for the first time and how he botched the shot placement- pig eventually died but not quickly and said farmer sent every animal he raised for meat to a proper butcher/dispatcher instead.
This was brilliant. You have a very engaging writing style and a very unique angle to bring to the table with your background. This was a brilliant aside from the compost Fluffies!
I can’t wait to go back to their misadventures (I’m a sucker for Pillowfluffs), though when the diversions are this imaginative, well-researched and well executed, I will read whatever you put in front of me.
Yeah like @ThatsWhy said, it’s not considered a “humane” way of slaughter (which is what largely what I was focusing on even if the narrator here had mixed motivations about the whole thing lmfao)
Nope, he’s not cut out for it at all, you’re right!
The logic behind not curing the methemoglobinemia (or using fluffies in this manner in the first place) is somewhat contrived, but the cure for the disease, methylene blue, isn’t super cheap. It’s not super expensive either, but why bother?
I thought about writing this, but like I mentioned in an earlier comment, I was slightly avoidant of chicken-specific killing methods since it was a little too close to home for me. I also just wanted to write about captive bolt pistols.
I really enjoyed this one, from the science based problem solving, to the personal level, repeated justification to themselves that this is the right way of doing things.
