i'm not saying it's wrong or that you shouldn't do it... what im saying is that if you're a man and your family pet dies, and your kids are crying, and you also start crying and moaning instead of ending it's misery, you start begging people for money, yous tart dipping into your kids college fund, into savings, to save a dog, you got bigger problem than a dead dog
this is the solution if u cannot afford to save ur animal
the dog is sick and the kids are crying. give little billy a new fire engine and baby sarah a lolly, then go get your sharpest strongest knife and sharpen it, use a rough stone then a smooth stone then a leather strop to get rid of microscopic teeth and aline the tip of the blade. take ur dog out back and start remembering all the good times, let your dog lay under your arm as you sit on the ground, until you forget what u came out to do. oh but there's the knife, now u remember. when the dog looks like its mind is at rest you gently pick up its head and find the jugular. with a smooth, quick, precise incision u send him up to doggy heaven. this is how goats are slaughtered in mongolia, they do it with love so to speak, yes u can slaughter an animal with love
then ur kids come out and say what happened to old yeller, he's in the box kids get your shovels, then u all say good buy to old yeller, and the kids are sad which is appropriate. two days later you come home with a new puppy and then u and ur family are making thx giving dinner and everyone is laughing again
it's not that killing things is tough and macho, it's that the man's responsibility is to take sorrow away from people and put it onto himself, a woman and children cry when they are sad to make other people sad and to get affection from people, the man is strong and takes away their tears, this is how u do it
