In my neck of the woods we didn't used to have yotes when I was younger so I would have killed him as it would have been a long death without a decent predator around. I would have dropped him and you guys would have never heard about it as that is a personal decision you (or I) would have to live with. Now that we have coyotes around, I doubt he would suffer for long, so the decision might be different.

"We do not inherit our wildlife from our fathers, we only borrow it from our children."