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Why Are Whale Strandings Still a Mystery?

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Can Dogs Kill a Whale?

The medasilam and the a aspromasine, they use already in veternary services for horses and dogs to calm them down. The xasaline is the pain relief in anaesthesia. And then that final potassium chloride is what does it. They don't even give humans a couple of shots. So they do this, you know, with dogs. Ay, give one to a kind of m the dog down, and the one to stop the heartbeat, right in the potassium chloride. It's much safer to administer these drugs, because you're working by the fin, which is much less dangerous than, say, working by the tail. But that's just one way

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