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If it was a pet, I'd try to locate the owner and take it to a hospital--as that's what I hope someone would do for mine. If it was livestock, I'd locate the owner and call authorities. If it was a wild animal ie; deer, hog, pteradactyl, etc, I would put it down (have done this twice before with a pocket knife). Once, I came on a woman and two kids just bawling and screaming. There was a doe with a broke back bleating her head off in the ditch. I put it down and would do it again. When the trooper showed up, he told me thanks, but would not let me cut off the backstraps. I think situation, location, and circumstance has everything to do with this situation.