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As a nurse I have seen a couple cases of internal decapitation in people. It's awful. Painful. They know what's going on. Basically you separate their lower body from the brain, so they no longer have the nerve control to make the diaphragm move, so they suffocate. In humans they are "bagged" to help them breathe until they are intubated and hooked up to a ventllator. Depending on how fast they are saved after the accident, they can retain full brain function if they have oxygen. If they go too long without breathing their brain cells die and they also suffer heart attack and then die.
Pulling the neck of an animal would, I imagine, be similar to this horrific experience. The body is paralyzed from voluntary movement so they cannot breathe, gasp, or cry out to show their suffering as other types of injuries may cause. They may shudder because the nerve cells are going crazy. The brain is still very much alive and conscious until oxygen deprivation causes the brain to pass out and die.
I just put a quail to sleep with the CO2 method. It worked fast and basically it went to sleep and then died. Very peaceful with a drowsy looking quail. No struggling. No trauma. Was actually more peaceful than when I took a pet bird to the vet to be put down a couple years ago. The vet had to inject the med into the jugular so the bird was made to be restrained and then the neck put to one side. Bird was very upset. The quail was not.
Pulling the neck of an animal would, I imagine, be similar to this horrific experience. The body is paralyzed from voluntary movement so they cannot breathe, gasp, or cry out to show their suffering as other types of injuries may cause. They may shudder because the nerve cells are going crazy. The brain is still very much alive and conscious until oxygen deprivation causes the brain to pass out and die.
I just put a quail to sleep with the CO2 method. It worked fast and basically it went to sleep and then died. Very peaceful with a drowsy looking quail. No struggling. No trauma. Was actually more peaceful than when I took a pet bird to the vet to be put down a couple years ago. The vet had to inject the med into the jugular so the bird was made to be restrained and then the neck put to one side. Bird was very upset. The quail was not.