Ruminants
- Acceptable
- Sodium pentobarbital
- 60 mg/kg IV
- Controlled substance
- Penetrating captive bolt
- Must properly restrain the animal
- Aesthetically displeasing
- Conditionally Acceptable
- Chloral hydrate
- IV only after sedation
- May have aesthetically unacceptable reactions
- Gunshot
- Have to be highly skilled and properly trained
- Only done in jurisdictions that allow firearms
- Done outdoors, away from public and other animals
- Gunshot to neck or heart is unacceptable
- Electrocution
- Must be trained
- Hazardous to personnel
- Not useful method for dangerous, intractable animal
- Animal should be unconscious by some method
- Aesthetically objectionable
- May not kill small animals (<5kg)
- Adjunctive methods
- Methods that are acceptable when used in conjunction with another method that renders the
animal unconscious first, prior to using the adjunctive method
- Potassium chloride
- Requires general anesthesia
- 1-2 mmol/kg
- Given IV or Intracardiac
- No withdrawal period
- Get a rippling of muscles and clonic spasms
- Unacceptable
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