Quote Originally Posted by DM1975 View Post
Man, sometimes people are just stupid. I used to be a police officer myself, but that is just nuts. I would have told you to go for it. Inhumane? A bullet to the head might be humane to a degree, but not as humane as a CO2 chamber, not to mention that any time you fire your weapon their is a possibility of liable should anything go wrong.

Granted I had to put down several animals while I was a police officer, it was not something I enjoyed much, but things like that have to be done sometimes.
Exactly. I can't think of anything more humane, other than maybe nitrous oxide or nitrogen, than slowly pumping in CO2 while it's feasting on some delicious strawberries and mango slices. Once it was knocked out I would slowly increase the gas until I was 100% that the job was done. Doesn't the Humane Society say that that is the only humane way to euthanize rodents? I know that raccoons are not rodents, and being larger it would take longer, but I would think that taking my time and slowly gassing it would be about as humane as possible in that situation. I don't really have a problem with a bullet to the head, but he just seemed awfully eager to pop a cap in that 'coon. It was kind of scary thinking that a lot more cops could be just as trigger happy while they're out there every day.