How to kill a small animal to shorten its suffering?

18 hours ago, raphaelh42 said:

My dad had a goat and one day he foud it dying in agony (maybe it would have survive, i know), maybe poisoned or something, he killed it to make its (their) pain stop

He just told me today that he did it by breaking its cervical vertebrae, a quick and strong movement

So i guess what you see in horror movies is true when it occurs on humans, in the end i guess this is what i could do, to answer the question of this thread

I didn't expect it's really doable on animals of this size

It's a moral dilemma, but good animal husbandry includes an empathic connection to the animal and a philosophical understanding of the nature of death...

And that's the fundamental difference, I have no understaning of a strange animals suffering or life goals...