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[โ€“] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the most humane way to put them down? I feel bad, it's not their faults after all.

[โ€“] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Smashing is pretty humane, since you're taking out their whole distributed nervous system simultaneously. With roaches I tend to smash with my foot and then smear them. The shearing action helps break apart nerve endings that might still be working if they were just compressed