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No, it is very much not a humane method of euthanasia - it’s incredibly cruel. For rodents, a CO2 chamber can be made using dry ice (instructions are online, intended for euthanizing feeder rodents), and this is humane. Birds and most pets should be taken to a veterinarian to be humanely euthanized. You should not get additional pets if your parents are too cheap to take them to the vet; it’s not fair to the animals. When you can pay for the vet yourself, then you can have the pets you like without worrying that they’re being neglected. It can be hard to be a child whose parents do the wrong thing. I’m sorry.

This is the kind of Quora question that warms the cockles of my heart, and believe me, they need considerable warming.Usually, giving me all your worldly goods consists of two simple steps:Gather all your worldly goods together.Send them to me.I admit that at times this can become bulky. Plus, to be honest, there’s several items I really don’t want:No additional pets, unless they are within Napster’s diet. He isn’t all that picky.No Minnesota Vikings gear. I have standards.No persimmons, or anything that remotely resembles a persimmon, or anything that looks like it might have resembled a persimmon at some time.No copies of Twilight.The above items can be sent to Joel Goldstein, who has generously offered to act as a middleman. Virtue should be rewarded, so Joel, you can keep the above items as your cut; send me an appropriate thank you card!Good packing material is imperative, and often will be appreciated more than the contents.For those for whom this is too much effort, just hold a nice garage sale and send me the proceeds by cashier’s check or gift cards at Pet Food Express. Not that I don’t trust Joel, but you can send the money equivalents directly to me; it’s what passes for a religious principle in my universe.

Oh dear god in heaven, NO!Wild animals make poor pets, but hyenas make absolutely one of the worst pets in the world.Let’s just start by saying that in most US states this would be wildly illegal. Even if you could get a permit in those states that allow such things, anyone reasonable would look at the request and say “no.” In fact, Florida, which has pretty lax laws concerning exotics as pets, is now considering banning hyenas.Have you ever seen a “tame” hyena in a show? There’s a reason for that. The alleged “African hyena handlers” do not have them as “pets.” These are a group of traveling…call them buskers…not unlike the snake-charmers of India and dancing-bear-handlers of Eastern Europe. And just like those animals, these hyenas are kept muzzled most of the time, often treated with great brutality, often kept drugged, never allowed to go hungry because if they were hungry they would become aggressive, and are not pets, they are simply the way these men make their living.http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/fatal-attractions/videos/my-pet-hyena/The Truth About Hyaenas: debunking hyaena mythsMyth: Hyaenas make good pets. Reality: Although a few people in Africa and Asia find very young hyaenas in nature and raise them as pets, these animals generally appear to be extremely unhappy as “domestic companions” as adults, and must often be kept muzzled at all times so that they do not harm people or property. A muzzle prevents the hyaena from being able to groom itself properly. As spotted hyaenas need several years of practice to become proficient hunters, and as they are deprived of this practice when reared as pets, it is effectively a death sentence for a captive-reared hyaena to be released into the wild. In addition, pet hyaenas cannot be released for fear that they might transfer new pathogens from captive environments into the wild. Upon reaching adulthood, many "pet" hyaenas must therefore be euthanized.See that heavy rope muzzle? That is the only way a hyena can be kept as a “pet.” That muzzle is on the hyena all day and all night except when it is eating. And, they are kept drugged.“Yes, the famed Hyena Men of Africa walk around with them on chains, but they also keep them drugged and never let them get hungry.”On the unlikelihood of hyena domestication. Or: No, you can’t have one.And no, you can’t domesticate one. Not unless you have several thousand years to spare selectively breeding the things.