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Cane toads are slowly marching across Australia. What's the most humane way to kill them? (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The cool-and-freeze method involves placing cane toads in a fridge for 24 hours, which puts them in a state of torpor, before transferring them to the freezer to finish them off.

She said this was more humane than other methods of killing cane toads, such as bashing them with cricket bats or crushing them under cars.

"Our learning and our knowledge have evolved since the days of cane toad golf," Ms Tomsett said.

"It's important to treat all animals humanely. Cane toads have to be removed, and it's not their fault they're here."

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The issue with "bashing" is that it's very hard to ensure instantaneous death with blunt force.

Stepped hyperthermia is guaranteed humane, no matter who does it. You can't "miss" putting it in the fridge, whereas it's very easy for someone to misjudge a killing blow and leave the poor thing with multiple bone breaks to die slowly over many hours.

Also I don't think toads have much going on upstairs, so it's not like they're in the fridge having an existential crisis wondering what happens next, is there a god, am I going to heaven, etc. They're just sitting there in the quiet thinking about literally nothing when a bit of a cool change happens so they bruminate ready for the winter they think is coming.