"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from "pammyT" contains these words:

I am sorry but the thought of any creature struggling to breath for
several
minutes while underwater turns my stomach. I nearly drowned as a
youngster
and it was not pleasant and certainly not fast. The memory has never
left me
and I would never advocate using this bloody inhumane method of killing
anything.

Much as I dislike grey squirrels (except in a pie or casserole) I have
to agree with the above. I rescued some sort of fly from rainwater in a
container, yesterday as it struggled to get a grip on the plastic sides.

Any squirrels I kill depart suddenly, with a ·22" hole in the head.

I have no problem with killing vermin. In theory, I have no problem with
killing any animal. But as a rational compassionate human being, I abhoir
cruelty and suffering. If you must eradicate vermin, for heaven's sake, do
it fast without making the creature suffer. It doesn't *know* it is vermin.
It doesn't act the way it does, simply to make a nuisance of itself. It is
simply being a grey squirrel.