Ending the misery ???

[rigs]

Its a hazard we all face if we travel in Australia, doesn't have to be outback, could be anywhere.
There are lots of animals that come onto the roads and unfortunately we cant always avoid them.
I have long held the belief that I will not swerve to miss an animal, as often that puts you and your passengers life at greater risk of injury. So in my book the animal cops it and we survive.
If you do hit something when travelling around, and it didn't die ..... HOW do you put it out of its misery ?? Or do you leave it ?
4x2 ?
Rifle ?
Shotgun ?
Hit it again in car ?
Drive off ?

[GeoffA]

When we hit a cow on the Hume Freeway at Wandong, the cops came and put a bullet in its' scone.

[Jakster1]

Well funny this thread pops up today...
I nailed a roo on my way home from work this arvo.
Was driving the Corolla and it just appeared out of nowhere, straight onto the road and a bit of evasive action and heavy breaking not enough to avoid the inevitable. Luckily no one was coming the other way so I did manage to swerve a bit to avoid a dead straight hit and bounce him off the side of the car.
Looked in my side mirror (which was amazingly still there) and saw it roll down the road  back to where it came from, get itself up and scramble back into the bush.
Corolla front bumper and front quarter panel didn't fare too well.
I asked myself the question what to do if it was fatally suffering on the side of the road, but it wasn't so I kept on driving......
Had I been in the patrol I'd say the roo would not have been so lucky and if that was the case I would have driven over it agin to finish him off if so necessary.
As a side note it goes to show if I were to be hit by a car then a small, light, low to the ground, soft crumple impact zone safety machine  would be vehicle of choice.

[Symon]

I've hit a roo that I had to put to sleep with a 12" shifter.  Another time my uncle and I hit a cow, we used a filleting knife that time.

Not a pleasant thing to do, but better than letting them die in pain.

[listo]

I've had to do it a bit. I've shot a couple, ran some over when I've had nothing and used either a tyre spanner or a solid lump of timber that's laying around. I've got no dramas shooting Roos in a paddock for dog meat but I don't feel great when I have to do this. I've just bought a new .22 mag compact that I might carry behind the seat for these occasions now.

[MDS69]

Back in the late 90's a mate and I were riding motor bikes out around Tibooburra, Cameron Corner, Innaminka, Birdsville etc when we came across a Landcruiser with feathers all over it and distressed kids in the back and shocked parents in the front. They had hit an emu and it was still kicking. We had to put it out of its misery by dropping a rock of about 15kg on its head. Not a nice thing to do.

[dales133]

Never nice to run something over but it helps if it tastes nice!
I hit a big arse feral sheep once when I was camping with a few mates in my early 20, did a bit of damage to my carolla and died instantly.....it donated it's back legs to bbq for the next couple of nights

[Foo]

Haven't had to do it luckily as they don't get a second chance when I hit them in the B-double.

Foo

[edz]

Depending on the state of it [ the animal / type ] I'd be bit warey about going anywhere near an injured one, bloke I knew wrecked his car hitting  a roo and ended up half torn to shredds when it woke up while he was trying to get it back out of the windscreen.

[Beachman]

Very good question and another part that concerns me they is if they are in shock and become aggressive. An example of this is a neighbour’s dog who is normally friendly got hit by a car last week. He got himself up and hobbled into another neighbour’s yard and when we tried to approach it to look at its injuries he was suddenly ultra-aggressive and went into full attack mode to anyone who came within 3 metres.
 
We had to leave him lying injured until the owners came home 1 hour later.

[GUEY]

Hammer. Always keep one in the car.

[GGV8Cruza]

Back of the axe or shovel if needed. All I have hit so far have not needed any assistance

GG

[loanrangie]

Wheel brace is what i'd use if i had too, years ago i was in Botswana standing on the side of the road when a local hit a stray dog and dragged it down the road for at least 20m.
   They werent going to stop but we ran out and flagged them down, mate went back to the truck and grabbed a tyre lever and gave it a good whack in the middle of the skull to put it out of its misery.

[rigs]

OK guys, so thanks for the replies so far. Seems like a dong on the head is the way to dispatch wildlife in most cases.
And Bullbars seem to come out on top. Steel or Alloy or are they the same ?

[Moggy]

I must be a sadist....

I like watching them writhe in pain, blood streaming from the head, mangled bodies, broken bones..............
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Oh hang on......
I thought this was about the NSW league side..

But then again... they did get hit by a bus last week.........
Or was it a train..... might have been the sunlander

[speewa158]

Then theres the story of a bloke driving to work in town  . Heard a thump & looked back to see a cat rolling on the grass . Racked with guilt of cleaning up somebody's cat & leaving it in pain , he grabs a tyre iron to finish the job .
Only to hear a female voice behind him saying   " Has Fluffy Finished Her Morning Roll on the Grass         "




At this stage you jump in the car with the bird jammed in the bumper    ,   & drive   .& don't mention it again .

                             So l Have Heard        ,                  ln passing           

[dales133]

I didn't run over it or hit it with a wheel brace but I did drive about 15k and part of it hi way speed with a cat on the roof of the land crusier.
Needless to say I only had to start it up  after that and she head for the hills

[Pog]

I have had to dispatch 3 x animals in my time.

1.
I hit a roo doing about 30km/hr on the driveway of our golf club and broke it's legs. I didn't want to kill it, but watching it try to get up with broken legs was not pretty. Also, being on the driveway, it was about to been by a lot of people, so I found a big stick, and whacked it as hard as I could over the head. It died instantly,  and I dragged it out of sight.

2.
I was riding my dirt bike, when a roo jumped across the track in front of us and went head 1st into a fence. It was clearly buggered, but still kicking. We grabbed a big log and dropped it on its head. It died instantly.

3.
We were camping in a Game Reserve near Renmark when we came in contact with a feral cat. I decided to kill it as it was hanging around our camper and passing on things. This prick of an animal was the most difficult to kill, with the back of an Axe and my steel cap boot. It did not die quickly, and I felt sorry for it, but once I started the process, I felt that I should finish it.

These are the only animals I have killed, (apart from fish & worms) & I didn't enjoy killing them, but in each case, it was the right thing to do.

[KieranR]

Whatever I can find in my vehicle normally,
pipe
bit of timber
knife
Wheel brace

Not something I like doing, but its better to put them out of their misery quickly.  I was going to work one day and there was a roo that got hit by the Ute in front of me, it had broken legs and the other Ute just kept driving, so I pulled up, grabbed the biggest rock I could lift and dropped it on its head, it exploded and covered me in blood and guts...gross, but at least it was out of its misery.