Well thereare afew reasons.

First, I don't own any fields, and finding public land these days where you can go an discharge a firearm into wildlife is rather difficult. I have always been one to follow the law, particularly because businesses that don't follow the law don't last.

Also, up until last year, drowning was an accepted method of euthanasia by the avma. Just read about the chang, so I don't recommend doing tha anymore. Oddly enough, trappers are still allowed to use drown sets to capture beaver and other aquatic mammals. Either way, drowning was easier, cheaper, and more efficient when disposing of multiple animals.

When talking about animals, you have to remember not to apply human emotions and concepts to animals. For example, part of what makes drowning so horrible to humans is the fear and the axiety of it all, we dramatize it, animals don't do this. In addition, we have amuch larger lung capacity than that of a skunk. Where it may take up to3 minutes for a humanto pass out when drowning, it will take a skunk about 10-20 seconds from what I've seen.

With the scientific stuff out of the way, I am glad they changed their policy to an extent. I never was a big fan of that practice.