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My family used to own chickens, about 15-20 of them. Occasionally we'd kill them and eat them, and like BigBen said, if you don't hold the body, it will run away. However, my dad never made us hold on to the body. It's one thing to watch a headless chicken flapping and running around and whatnot, and it's another thing to hold onto its body, feeling its muscles spasm and then slowly stop.
I've killed plenty of fish as well. I always hit them on the head with a hammer to make sure they're dead. Usually what used to happen is that would I catch a fish and then throw it in an empty cooler and it would suffocate. One day I had caught a 26" Red fish and threw it into my cooler and kept fishing. Well, that fish was pretty freakin tenacious, and did not want to die. It jumped around a bit, then was still for a few mins, then suddenly jumped about like a madfish. Almost knocked the cooler open and escaped from my canoe. That kinda disturbed me, so now I kill them quickly with a hammer.
Other than that, I can't recall any other type of animal I've killed. I don't really enjoy killing animals, but I have no problem with other people doing so as long as they do it in a responsible, non cruel way. There are rednecks around here that used to get drunk and then stay up until like 2 or 3 am, and wait for all of the armadillos to come out in the open. These rednecks would then chase the armadillos and kick them to death. I never saw it happen, but I have seen the aftermath and it is not pretty. It's that kind of shit that makes me want to hunt people.
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