It is a touching experience and this sadness helped me find respect for the animal. William Kittredge and I have both felt some remorse after harming an animal. In his story, A Saving Light, he tells how he wounded the badger with a gun and when the badger chased him to his truck he thought about shooting it again but couldn't. Then he felt terrible thinking that the badger had probably gone back to its den and died from the wound he had inflicted on it. If you were to take a bad shot at a deer, it would have a longer and more miserable death, like the wounded badger. The rate probably suffered over a period of time rather than a more sudden period