If there's any sort of consolation to be drawn from this
it would have been in shock and so the extreme pain probably would have passed by this point.
Also: some fucker ringbarked a tree near me.
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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Wed 10 Dec 2008, 5:58,
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That is some consolation
I would have liked to believe that there was some sort of merciful stop gap measure to keep an animal from experiencing the pain of being skinned alive. I would have thought before you'd just die but that wasn't the case.
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hanke murphy, I'm a mess,
Wed 10 Dec 2008, 6:12,
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