@MsBagawkbagawk, I know how you feel. Read all of below.
Wow, I haven't been on in a while. I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. Mine was kinda a bummer.
The Rooster That Refused To Die! 100% True, And Very Disturbing! Don't Read If You Have A Weak Heart!!!
We had 2 of our dogs kill 2 chickens. First, our stupid dog, Lucky, killed Alaska, the JG hen, and Miska almost killed Sandy, the Naked Neck roo. She didn't finish him off. She had torn his abdomen, and his bowel was ripped open. His poo was all in his wound, and he was not in good shape! Why couldn't have Miska have
at least finished him off?! The worst part was, she was just sitting there, kinda pawing at him and slinging him around by his legs, and then kinda pouncing on him! I wanted to knock her senseless! But I couldn't... Instead, I took the poor, mangled roo away from her. I put him in a tuperware bucket in the barn and got my dad. He agreed to shoot the poor roo.
That should have gone the same way it had gone for the other roosters who had died by a shotgun: One shot and that's it. But it didn't. Dad loaded the shotgun, the same one that had killed the other roos, and he took aim. I hadn't gotten far enough away and heard perfectly well the loud bang that followed. I also heard something else. A chicken's pained squawking! I ran back, just in time to see dad shoot the rooster
again! He was still squawking! Finally, on the third shot, Dad shot the head off. That ended it, but it was very, very, very, very, very traumatic for me! I was crying this time! I was in charge of taking the bodies to their location. So, like always, I picked up this now dead roo by his feet. He was actually flopping like crazy, and it was very difficult to carry him without getting sprayed with blood.
Unfortunately, it was very windy outside, and, as a result, I got blood all over my pants, shirt, and shoes. There were even a few flecks on my face.
I still need to get the blood off my shoes. That was very disturbing for me and I cannot believe that it actually was that way. It still confuses me. The bullet went straight through the chest, piercing his heart (I think), and the second bullet went in the exact same place. The third bullet shot the head. It just confuses me. My dad just kinda shrugged it off, he really does not care. I feel really, really sad. I hope the poor creature did not suffer.