Amen, -You have said it Very Well!

I would Hate to *Have To* Do it too! But They *Had To!*

As such, they were Not Senseless or Pure Out Cold Blooded Killings. But Rather Very / Perfectly Sense-IBLE, Decisions, in their No Choice Circumstances!

I Think that as Much Resulting Meat / Food Value, Shud Have been Made Use of!, as an Additional Way of Stretching and Conserving Food Supplies.

But from What you and some Others have said in this Thread, -This could have Equalled Too Much Weight and Bulk, to be Carrying! Someone as Shackleton wouldn't have been so Stupid, as to just Let All that Good Food Go to Waste!, for No Good and Pressing Reason!

Heck, This Reminds me of something else! From the Aviation Part of my "Overall Life Onion". -Which is that It's Heartbreaking the Things Balloonists have to sometimes Throw Overboard! -When they Find they've *Got To* Unload some Ballast!, and in a Hurry!

In Survival too!, Such "Weight and Balance" Considerations can be Entirely Life and Death Crucial!

"We Still Love you!, Petty, -But we Just CAN'T Take or Feed you! Thats just the Way it Is!"

In such No Choice / Hard Choice Situations, It could be Best to, in Addition to your Means of killing your Animals being a Quick, Humane death, Go even a Further such Step. This is that this Neccessarily Unfortunate Task could perhaps be Done when a Given Animal is Sleeping.

Finally, I am a Person who's Posted something about the Additional Dogs. But that's Minor and Beside much of the Immeadiate Point. Just said by way of Mention.

I'm probably at least as Foggy on this as you may be. You may also Know Well More on that particular Point.

But in a Recent Shackleton Documentary that I Viewed, (Might Not be the One we're typically Talking About), I Definitely Heard Mention of this, -How They Ended Up *Having To* kill a Lot of their Sled Dogs.

It was a Case of Regrettably *Having To* Do What they Did! NOT of Unneccessarily / Senselessly Doing Wanton, Cold Blooded, or even Bloodthirsty killing of their Animals for it's Own Sake! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]ditchfield[/email]