• daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What’s the most humane way to put them down? I feel bad, it’s not their faults after all.

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      2 months ago

      Smashing is pretty humane, since you’re taking out their whole distributed nervous system simultaneously. With roaches I tend to smash with my foot and then smear them. The shearing action helps break apart nerve endings that might still be working if they were just compressed