It turns out that the FDA does, in fact, approve drugs for the specific
purpose of veterinary euthanasia,

Isn't that sodium pentathol? (I'm not sure about the spelling.) We
once put down a St Bernard who weighed almost as much as I do, and at
the time I marveled what an easy death that was.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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