Killing Animals

Donnielighto

Just killed a fly that was on my screen.

When is it ok to kill an animal because it annoys you or something else trivial? What animals do you draw the line with?


Edit: Insects ARE until proven otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal

Sir Arthur Daley

A big fly.

The Adversary

Don't kill a dog, Everything else is fair game.

_Redzer_

Actual animals. I try to feck insects out the window if I can, rather than kill them, but if there's a heap of flies around and that's not an option, they're gonna get smushed.

LizzieJones

Last time I looked a fly was an insect, not an animal.

kneemos

Good question.Is a fly's life any less important than a dog or a seal?

kneemos

LizzieJones wrote: »

Last time I looked a fly was an insect, not an animal.

Still an animal.

LizzieJones

kneemos wrote: »

Still an animal.

Actually, no.

ch20

I would draw the line with animals that benefit the ecosystem, like say a honey bee.but I would kill an insect/animal that attacks you for no reason like a horsefly.

pablo128

ch20 wrote: »

I would draw the line with animals that benefit the ecosystem, like say a honey bee.but I would kill an insect/animal that attacks you for no reason like a horsefly.

I like dogs. But if a dog attacked me I would kill it.

policarp

Rule of thumb normally is,
if they can't kill you,
then why kill them, unless you
are going to eat them.

smellmepower

I try my best not to kill anything,even moths,ants or annoying fly's.

Had to kill a wasp in the bathroom yesterday as it wouldn't fly out the window no matter how hard I tried to shoo him out with a newspaper,and I felt a bit bad about it.

Macavity.

LizzieJones wrote: »

Actually, no.

Actually, yes. They are part of the Kingdom of Animalia. Insects are animals, I don't understand why some people can't get that. Baffling.

Donnielighto

LizzieJones wrote: »

Actually, no.

Yes???

ktc99

LizzieJones wrote: »

Actually, no.

Actually yes

_Redzer_

kneemos wrote: »

Good question.Is a fly's life any less important than a dog or a seal?

Well, kind of. Individually they've higher ecological roles and ranks in nature -in the seal's case, and a dog has more importance for humans' uses and needs. Collectively as a species, they're all just as important.

But the fact that insects have no spindle fibres or any advanced neurological system that allows them to feel pain means you wouldn't feel as guilty if you killed a fly.

Sir Arthur Daley

According to yahoo answers.

Of course! What did you think it was, a plant?

AlanS181824

I don't like killing fly's but if they keep buzzing around me then that spray is coming out...

Donnielighto

I never kill spiders. Allies against the fly menace.

Am I hypocritical?

pablo128

Donnielighto wrote: »

I never kill spiders. Allies against the fly menace.

Am I hypocritical?

Do you live with a woman? They scream loudly when in close proximity to a spider. It then has to be killed. If I'm not there, she has, on occasion hoovered them up before bunging the hose with tissue. I have to then empty the thing when I get home.
I taught my 5 year old daughter how to pick spiders up by the leg. But she prefers standing on them. "Did you hear that one crunch, daddy?":D

Hotfail.com

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

According to yahoo answers.

Yahoo answers is a worse reference than AH.

_Redzer_

pablo128 wrote: »

Do you live with a woman? They scream loudly when in close proximity to a spider. It then has to be killed. If I'm not there, she has, on occasion hoovered them up before bunging the hose with tissue. I have to then empty the thing when I get home.
I taught my 5 year old daughter how to pick spiders up by the leg. But she prefers standing on them. "Did you hear that one crunch, daddy?":D

I lived with 3 sisters growing up. You couldn't believe the fúcking fun I had stock piling spiders and moths to put in their beds and makeup!

Sure I still haven't grown up. I put a fat moth in one of my sisters pillowcases for her to find in the night

Mince Pie

I have an alliance with spiders, they stick to their area and I stick to mine and we get along just fine. I hate flies so between Horace the gigantic spider and the two dogs who will munch on flies we seem to be ok.
I'm a lady by the way so unless the spider is running across my bed there will be no screaming here. And then they get the glass and cardboard treatment and put outside.
Hate moths, crazy erratic flying little hairy bodied things. I would be ok if they weren't like drunk flappy furry things.

policarp

Why kill anything unless you have to?
They are there for a reason.
Part of the food chain.
Maybe not yours but some
animals survive on this food source.

Karl Stein

Seals are half dog half fish.

Macavity.

Karl Stein wrote: »

Seals are half dog half fish.

And they're insects, not animals.

Mince Pie

Oh earwigs die. Hate them, have been terrified of those creepy little bastárds since I was a kid. I have no idea what their purpose is but I don't care, they are no honey bee.

kowloon

There's a web across my window that catches a lot of the smaller bugs that are attracted to the light. I won't harm my spiders.

Panthro

Karl Stein wrote: »

Seals are half dog half fish.

And they're good for keeping in the flavour too.
Awww yeahhhhh...

RoadhouseBlues

So a seal walks into a club....

Hate the feckin' earwigs myself. With a vengeance. They are evil brutes of things. Couldn't kill an animal myself. A human probably. Saw a tiny kitten run over once years ago. Wasn't right for ages after it.

pablo128

RoadhouseBlues wrote: »

So a seal walks into a club....

Hate the feckin' earwigs myself. With a vengeance. They are evil brutes of things. Couldn't kill an animal myself. A human probably. Saw a tiny kitten run over once years ago. Wasn't right for ages after it.

I saw a cat accidentally run over in the work car park by one of the lads. It kept bucking 3 or 4 feet in the air wailing until one of the other lads put it out of its misery with a shovel.