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.

RoadhouseBlues

Im sure that's a horrible thing to see. The little kitten I saw, some fecked up anti humanoid insult to the human race, large brown piece of ****, threw it out of a car on a main road. C**t. If I ever got them I would gladly dance on their head.

TheBrinch

Anything that enters my room is fair game to be killed.

BeerWolf

Walking the dogs a horsefly buzzing around me constantly, trying to feast on my blood - I stand still a moment waiting for it to land, then I slap it and stomp on it on the ground then carry on my merry way...


Pure evil I am.

caustic 1

I killed the cat last week, felt bad then discovered 5 kittens and bawled my eyes out. They are thriving though.

Stella Virgo

i have set up a.....no fly zone.....
(sorry i will go now:D)

bodice ripper

My rule is that if it has more than 4 legs or fewer than 2, I can kill it.

BeerWolf

bodice ripper wrote: »

My rule is that if it has more than 4 legs or fewer than 2, I can kill it.

I'll be sure to notify the amputee committee about you... the "Bodice Ripper" on the loose...

bodice ripper

BeerWolf wrote: »

I'll be sure to notify the amputee committee about you...

They've nothing to fear, stumps count.

323

The Adversary wrote: »

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

Unless it bites you.

Flies can carry all sorts of disease's, kill em all.
Same goes for mosquitoes.

FactCheck

If a cow had the chance, they'd kill you and everyone you care about.

BeerWolf

FactCheck wrote: »

If a cow had the chance, they'd kill you and everyone you care about.

Or donkeys;

FutureGuy

I kill nothing.

If it's a fly, wasp, spider, whatever, it goes out the window.

What the fcuk is the point in killing something? Could never undertsand it.

ancapailldorcha

I'm terrified of spiders so I can't be the thought of picking them up. I always use a large flat item (cd case for example) and do it in one stroke. If you must kill an animal, it should be as quick and as painless as possible.

Tar.Aldarion

Nothing, pretty disgusting attitude. Just let it fly off outside or whatever.

kingtut

Cats are fair game, my local restaurant pays handsomely for them

Barely There

I killed a pigeon this morning.

I was driving up to work behing another car. He was in the middle of the road, I pulled out to over take just as Mr Pigeon started to flap away accross to the other side of the carriageway - the side I just pulled out into.
BAM!

Feathers and a big loud girly scream (from me)!

Why did he fly accross the road - Why?

kneemos

Barely There wrote: »

I killed a pigeon this morning.

I was driving up to work behing another car. He was in the middle of the road, I pulled out to over take just as Mr Pigeon started to flap away accross to the other side of the carriageway - the side I just pulled out into.
BAM!

Feathers and a big loud girly scream (from me)!

Why did he fly accross the road - Why?

A lot of animals do this,they seem to get confused and run under the car at the last minute.

Tokyo

If it's tasty, or I have to put it out of its misery, fair game.

Otherwise I leave it be. Can't see the point of killing anything unnecessarily.

Duggy747

The GF always wants me to kill spiders but I always let them go out the back, they're handy for catching the bastard flies and they don't bother me..........though yesterday one manky bastard ran up my leg quickly and jumped onto the other leg

This is Ireland so our spiders are grand, if this were Australia I'd have burnt the house down to the ground and nuked the site from orbit.

beano345

If I have to I will put an animal out of its misery other than that no,a certain forum on here turns my stomach absolutely unnecessary killing of animals that you wouldn't even cook and put on the table.