A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

There are more WAYS of killing a cat than choking it with cream
See also the following two entries and there is more than one WAY to skin a cat.

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  1839 S. SMITH John Smith’s Letters 91 There’s more ways to kill a cat than one. 1855 C. KINGSLEY Westward Ho! II. xii. Hold on yet awhile. More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream. 1941 ‘R. WEST’ Black Lamb I. 506 Now I see the truth of the old saying that there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream. In Bosnia the Slavs did choke the Turk with cream, they glutted him with their wholesale conversions. .. But here cream just did not come into the question. 1974 T. SHARPE Porterhouse Blue ii. I have yet to meet a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the inessentials. .. There are more ways of killing a cat than stuffing it with.. *ways and means
  

There are more WAYS of killing a dog than choking it with butter
See also the adjacent entries.

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  1845 W. T. THOMPSON Chronicles of Pineville 35 There’s more ways to kill a dog besides choking him with butter. 1945 F. THOMPSON Lark Rise xvi. A proverb always had to be capped. No one could say, ‘There’s more ways of killing a dog than hanging it’ without being reminded, ‘nor of choking it with a pound of fresh butter.’ 1955 W. C. MACDONALD Destination, Danger x. It [liquor] was a life-saver and I’m much obliged. But you can kill a dog without choking him with butter. *ways and means
  

There are more WAYS of killing a dog than hanging it
See also the two preceding entries.

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  1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) 127 There are more ways to kill a dog then hanging. 1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 253 Many ways to kill a Dog, and not to hang him. There be many ways to bring about one and the same Thing, or Business. 1725 SWIFT Drapier’s Letters X. 165 I know that very homely Proverb, more ways of killing a Dog than hanging him. 1945 F. THOMPSON Lark Rise xvi. A proverb always had to be capped. No one could say, ‘There’s more ways of killing a dog than hanging it’ without being reminded, ‘nor of choking it with a pound of fresh butter.’ "ways and means