have you ever killed an animal?

BongoJuice · 23-03-2010 06:10PM

Rented Mule wrote: »

I'd say the badger wasn't as casual about it.

Can't say he was. He wouldn't be the biggest loss to the animal kingdom in any case.

dr gonzo · 23-03-2010 06:11PM

My god, im glad i dont drive because if this thread is anything to go by its a statistical eventuality that i would have to grimly "take care of an animal" at some point and i honestly dont think i have the stomach for it.

orourkeda · 23-03-2010 06:13PM

As they used to say on Bo Selecta " I'm a bad invincible cow eating motherf*cker"

DonalN · 23-03-2010 06:17PM

Killed a bird once when it flew into the windscreen with me doing 60mph - it bounced straight up into the air and I saw it hit the ground (and bounce again!) a few seconds later in the rearview mirror. Later on on the same trip, a hare ran into the side of the micra - didn't kill it, but it must have a had serious concussion!

adamski8 · 23-03-2010 06:22PM

mice, weekly, with my hands.

donvito99 · 23-03-2010 06:25PM

Erm...Lambo?

KaiserMc · 23-03-2010 07:06PM

Killed a hamster by accident ,had three of them the father his daughter and son ( mum was killed by the neighbours daughter- she accidentally squashed it in her hand after it bit her)so I took in her offspring as they were related.

Had two cages and three hamsters ,they reach maturity fairly quick so had to put the female on her own and the two males who tolerated each other for a couple of weeks until the son became as big as the father and began to bully him. These guys when they went at it were vicious ..hissing and screeching ..you'd be afraid to put your hand in to try and separate them as they were tearing each other apart.

As a temporary measure I cut two plastic bottles put some bedding and air holes in um ,put the hamster in and stuck them together.
Next morning he was gone ..he had chewed through the air hole and escaped.
Caught him that night when he came out from under the fridge , so this time I cut four plastic bottles and put no air holes (the logic being ..he's small ,8 liters of air will be enough till morning)
Next morning ,walk in to the kitchen ,brother is laughing his head off.. the hamster looks ..dead.. and then we have a discussion that he might of got cold and went into hibernation so we leave him by the fire for two days to see if he comes round..he never came round.

fikay · 23-03-2010 07:10PM

Irishcrx wrote: »

Agreed, why the hell didn't you take it to the vet or report it. Poor family out looking for him for weeks I bet. If someone ran over my dog and then battered it to death with a shovel I'd treat it the same as killing a member of my family..

Jesus.
The dude spared an animal a long and excruciating death and you'd hold him in the same light as a murderer? It's statements like that that make people run a mile from 'RSPCA types'.

kowloon · 23-03-2010 07:34PM

Hit a jackdaw on my bike, didn't kill it but snapped its leg in two, so it was doomed.
Accidentally choked a dove when I was handfeeding it, it was too weak to swallow, probably would have died anyway.
Had to shoot a vicious rooster that was attacking people.
Shot fox that lived near my chickens, probably the same fox responsible for killing over half of them.
Have hunted rabbit.
Killed many a rat that has been attracted to the bird feeder/ chicken feed.

XarcherX · 23-03-2010 07:35PM

i was coming round a narrow bend in my old (now written off) astra, met 3 horses and one of them landed on my windscreen, smashed all the glass in on top of me and rolled the whole way over the car. i couldn't move for at least half an hour, my hands still stuck to the steering wheel, i'll never forget the thump tho.
The horse i hit died and the other 2 ran off. It was brutal.
Also had to get several stitches after the glass was removed from the side of my head.
and yes, i did feel guilty, but whoever owned them should have kept them off the road, someone could have been killed!

MJ23 · 23-03-2010 07:59PM

I've drowned dozens of new born kittens, in a big bucket out the back of the house. The 3 cats we have must be very fertile, and every Tom from around the town comes in for his bit. The cats are wild, so cant catch them to have them neutred.

Ms. Captain M · 23-03-2010 08:07PM

When I lived out home my cat had 2 kittens and I dropped a bag of turf on one of them (accident) and my Da found another one wrapped around the fan belt of the car, well what was left of it, fur mostly. He could have just told me it ran away but no

Augmerson · 23-03-2010 08:15PM

Irishcrx wrote: »

Agreed, why the hell didn't you take it to the vet or report it. Poor family out looking for him for weeks I bet. If someone ran over my dog and then battered it to death with a shovel I'd treat it the same as killing a member of my family..

BECAUSE IT WAS MASHED INTO THE ****ING ROAD. I don't know how it was still alive but it was. What is a Vet going to do but kill it anyway? There was **** all to do. There was no sweet way out there, and I hit the Dog in the middle of nowhere. Anyone who doesn't keep an animal like that locked up or secure has to face the fact that if it escapes and runs amok it's likely to get knocked down. It wasn't wearing a collar either with contact information.

I hit the Dog with the shovel to put it out of it's misery. I certainly didn't intend for it to take 4 attempts but it did. It's not something I am proud of but atleast I had the balls to finish the poor bastard off and not leave him there to die in pain. Believe me when I say this, there was no saving the Dog.

nucking futs · 23-03-2010 08:22PM

I was driving along once and thought I hit a dog. Pulled over to check if it was alive, turned out it was only a hobo.

So I left.

NoDice · 23-03-2010 08:41PM

Prob not on the same level so might not count but there was a spider in my room the other day and my OH wasn't home yet. I have a terrible fear of spiders.

Thought "have to get rid of this" but couldn't catch it with tissue cause I was too afraid..

So caught a can of lynx and started spraying it... Sprayed it until it curled up and fell on the floor and then I squashed it with a souvenir I had from Egypt...

To be sure to be sure!

anothernight · 23-03-2010 08:56PM

I hugged my rabbit to death when I was 3. I loved it too much

Mrmoe · 23-03-2010 09:17PM

I've killed quite a few animals in my time but my brothers exploits are the worst of all. The one I remember well was when our cat had kittens and the the mother had a habit of bringing the kittens up on to the tractor seat for a nap. Well normally they would be fine and they would just hope off or be carried off except this time he lowered the transport box at the back to lower them down when one of the kittens fell off and rolled underneath where its head was promptly squashed. It survived for a very short while before collapsing. Ironically it's name was Lucky.

Michellenman · 23-03-2010 09:37PM

My grandad killed 3 budgies. He sat on one, closed the door on another while it was sitting on top of it.. The third one, well it wasn't really his fault, it was flying around the kitchen and basically flew in to the deep fat fryer before he got the chance to put the chips in...

Bolag_the_2nd · 23-03-2010 09:47PM

NoDice wrote: »

Prob not on the same level so might not count but there was a spider in my room the other day and my OH wasn't home yet. I have a terrible fear of spiders.

Thought "have to get rid of this" but couldn't catch it with tissue cause I was too afraid..

So caught a can of lynx and started spraying it... Sprayed it until it curled up and fell on the floor and then I squashed it with a souvenir I had from Egypt...

To be sure to be sure!

me too, i had a mighty battle with a HUGE one the other day, it was too big for the hoover nozzle, :eek: ended up ringing a fearless friend who drove 12 miles to sort it out, i boarded up the room till he arrived, i have a morbid fear of the funkers.

dubtom · 23-03-2010 11:55PM

I started a transit van one evening unawares that a cat was warming itself in the engine bay. I'm not sure what did the damage,getting caught in the engine or the van driving over him. I felt some resistance when pulling away and got to check what it was and found him. He was still alive at that stage but sadly for him I had cinema tickets and 15 minutes to get there.

captainjack · 24-03-2010 01:04AM

If mackerel were people, Hitler would have nothing on me...

jigglywoo · 24-03-2010 01:12AM

Do sea monkeys count? I poisoned my friend's sea monkeys when I was about 11 because I was jealous she had them and I didn't. She told me the next day that they had all died and I had to act surprised. I have my own sea monkeys now anyway

Tar.Aldarion · 24-03-2010 01:13AM

Yes.

MonkeyTennis · 24-03-2010 01:16AM

i ran over a cat one time. I slammed on the brakes but it was too late. i looked in the mirror and its head was mush but its legs were twitching. I reversed.

Thomas828 · 24-03-2010 04:10AM

I once chased a mouse that found its way into my flat. It got trapped in a pile of plastic bags behind my bed where I killed it with my bare hands. Oh, and cockroaches, I've done in plenty of them!

DazMarz · 24-03-2010 04:11AM

Do ignorant looking things like spiders, wasps, flies and so on count? If so, then yes. If not, then not to my better knowledge, no.

mookishboy · 24-03-2010 10:08AM

I was heading for dublin one morning at about 4am along some back roads near longford and about 10 sheep ran out of a gate to a field.
I was driving this http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u273/mookishboy/stuff/?action=view&current=IMAGE0103.jpg
I ran over all of them !! It was a veritable wooly genocide !
i stopped had a look and considered bringing one or two to the butcher but i had to be in work at seven so i fecked em in the ditch and kept going !

stovelid · 24-03-2010 10:10AM

I have been the mastermind of the majority of moth genocides in South-West Dublin.

positron · 24-03-2010 10:15AM

Loads of rats and mice - usually drowning them with the trap, or poison them. And a couple of snakes, one was a cobra and another time it was a viper - really dangerous business. And once a pheasant committed suicide by flying across the road when I was driving along as usual.

seanybiker · 24-03-2010 10:47AM

Never killed an animal, I did hurt a few feelings though.
I would probably be balling like a big jessy if I knocked down an animal(not cow tipping knock down).
Mate of mine hunts deer. He has something like 73 kills over whatever amount of years. He said 1 deer he had to chase it a little to shoot it again. He said he was really upset for days after it because the deer suffered.

have you ever killed an animal?

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