My cat cornered a squirrel in the barn and attacked it. The squirrel was very injured by the time I got the cat away. I didn't want to leave the squirrel to die slowly in the cold so I brought it inside the house. It was all bloody and looked like it was in pain. I couldn't do anything to help it so I filled the sink with water and drowned the squirrel. It struggled to stay alive so much so that I had to keep forcing its head under water. Soon it started to breath the water and went limp in my hands. I let go of it and it floated across the surface of the water which was now red with blood. The experience has made me feel like I'm a murderer now. Why did I kill it? I had no right to take the life an an innocent creature. I'm so sad for doing what I did. Was it wrong to drown the injured squirrel? I never killed anything before, now my stomach is in knots. It feels like there's a dark cloud over me. Do I have any hope of redeeming myself?