Good bye COLIN the baby whale HOW did they do it PLEASE help Me.?

Question

I have just read he has been put down SO SAD HOW DOES SOMEONE PUT DOWN A WHALE HOW IS IT DONE.I HOPE HUMANE WAY I HOPE HE DID NOT HURT,.

Answer 1

First they gave him a sedative to calm him down, and then they gave him a lethal dose of anaesthetic. Hopefully he did not suffer....sad, but he would have suffered more if he starved to death.

Answer 2

oh no... well i guess the poor baby wouldve been better off then starving to death, i wonder where his mom is, did the mother whale died or went off somewhere? and was the baby whale left on sea as its grave..LOL ofcourse what was i thinking.

Thats so sad.really.

Answer 3

He was given a lethal dose of anaesthetic at 9:00 this morning.

I was hoping last knight they wouldn't find him again...

I cried.

Times like these, makes you miss Steve Irwin. I don't know what he would have done but he would've done SOMETHING to save him...

I am absolutely heart broken for this baby whale calf.  

Answer 4

It was very humane.

They gave him two injections of anaesthetic causing him to just fall asleep. There was no pain involved.

Answer 5

This whale was lucky that people found it. In the wild, it would have suffered and died a slow death. The poor thing was separated from its mother and apparently been attacked by sharks. At least when people found it, they did try to help but when they realized they couldn't, they did the next best thing by putting it out of its misery humanely.

Answer 6

I'm the same as you love.... this beautiful creature should have survived..but unfortunatley they found him this morning and he was very still they wouldnt even show you the pics on the news they were just going to give him two needles and I dont think he would of felt any pain anyway....the poor thing has been attacked by sharks so its the best thing..."sob sob"

Answer 7

This is the first that I heard that he was finally put down.

I would guess an injection in a major blood vessel. It is usually a peaceful and painless procedure - at least with animals I have seen euthanized.   I have been watching and wondering for the past several days about this baby whale.  It is so sad that he couldn't have been rescued - I guess the experts knew what they were doing.  I am glad he is not suffering, at least.  Still, it is so, so sad.

Answer 8

From what I understand they just shoot him with a lethal dose of anaesthetic. He dies calmly and peacefully. I hope. I understand how you feel. If you think about it its our fault. At least it's the fault of the mother's killer. If she hadn't been killed then Colin wouldn't be beached. Have you also wondered why people name these animals that will be killed anyway? It's silly and people get attached and they get sad when the poor animal dies.