I want to kill an animal.

steddyeddy · 30-07-2010 03:03PM

I'm sure many people don't have an objection to that. If I'm out in the wilds of wherever and a bear eats me so what? It's only doing what bears do. Similarly the OP is only doing what human's do; killing for food. The fact that it's all done at such a remove to the consumer is a shame, IMO (not that I'm advocating abbatoirs in Tesco or anything. The screaming would distract me from my crucial decision between Honey Nut Loops or Frosties).

the op isnt hunting to eat im sre if he can afford to travel he can afford to eat.

Too many people seem to have this idea of bunnies living happy, carefree lives before a mean old hunter shoots them, and it's crap. Rabbits live every moment of their lives under threat of being ambushed, disemboweled and eaten alive, and that's if they're not seriously injured in a fight over territory or a mate and die in horrible, horrible pain days later, or if they don't contract a disease and die a horrible, lingering, agonising death. A ball of lead in the left ear is a quick and merciful death compared to what a predetor would do to it.

So me going out shooting rabbits is a mercy killing, predators do it by necessity.

SquirrelFace · 30-07-2010 03:10PM

Why do you feel the need to kill something just because you can? I would be capable of killing a small child seeing as I'm obviously a lot bigger and smarter than it, and it clearly isn't intelligent enough to have made a rifle to defend its meaty self, but that doesn't mean I'm going to.... No offence but its no big manly feat being able to kill something which didn't stand a chance. I don't think anyones gonna be that impressed with "I shot a rabbit from twenty feet away with a big feck-off gun, thereby asserting myself as top of the food chain! HARDCORE!!"
I can't help but feel you are determined to kill an animal to piss off the vegetarians in the aforementioned vegetarian thread...
Anyway just my honest opinion:) Please don't get the animal in question from a pet shop, thats just mean:(

kylith · 30-07-2010 03:12PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

the op isnt hunting to eat im sre if he can afford to travel he can afford to eat.

What difference does that make? Lots of people can afford to buy eggs but they keep hens. Lots of people can afford to buy veggies, but they grow them instead. Lots of people can afford to buy fruit, but they pick wild berries in season. If he wants to take advantage of nature's bounty (and save some crops from rabbits, or make a dent in the invasive squirrell population) then fair dues to him.

steddyeddy wrote: »

So me going out shooting rabbis is a mercy killing, predators do it by necessity.

If you're going to be eating them then it's a nicer way to die than they would die 'naturally'. Obviously going out killing healthy animals for fun would soon exhaust the supply of bunnies and is just wasteful. My brother shoots, and he would kill obviously sick or badly injured animals out of mercy.

The kindest thing of all, of course, would be to train bunny doctors in the use of antibiotics, and to equip each fox with a sniper rifle.

steddyeddy · 30-07-2010 03:21PM

What difference does that make? Lots of people can afford to buy eggs but they keep hens. Lots of people can afford to buy veggies, but they grow them instead. Lots of people can afford to buy fruit, but they pick wild berries in season. If he wants to take advantage of nature's bounty (and save some crops from rabbits, or make a dent in the invasive squirrell population) then fair dues to him.

The difference is you dont have to kill the chicken to get the egg. I would like to think were advanced enough as a species to weigh morality and necessity together.

If you're going to be eating them then it's a nicer way to die than they would die 'naturally'. Obviously going out killing healthy animals for fun would soon exhaust the supply of bunnies and is just wasteful. My brother shoots, and he would kill obviously sick or badly injured animals out of mercy.

By that logic you must be in favour of euthanasia because its a nicer way to die?

The kindest thing of all, of course, would be to train bunny doctors in the use of antibiotics, and to equip each fox with a sniper rifle.

Or just leave them to it.

SV · 30-07-2010 03:23PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

What i did have repect for is mike tyson asking a zookeeper can he go into the cage with a fully grown silver back gorilla and asking could he punch him in the head!

How can you respect stupidity?

steddyeddy · 30-07-2010 03:25PM

SV wrote: »

How can you respect stupidity?

Well i thought it was funny at the time, i would have actually liked mike to go in because he seemed to think he would knock the ape out, in reality the gorilla would probaly rip his arms out of the socket (like they have done in the past to some poachers)

Flying Abruptly · 30-07-2010 03:37PM

How has Elmer Fudd not gotten a mention yet?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiEUDzIrEQE

kylith · 30-07-2010 03:48PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

By that logic you must be in favour of euthanasia because its a nicer way to die?

I am actually. I'd much rather a nice overdose of pain killers to a long, drawn out, painful death. My mind was made up on that score when I watched my grandmother die of cancer. To see her go from a vibrant woman to a husk who couldn't even raise her head, feed herself, or go to the bathroom was horrible. Give me the overdose any day.

I've always wondered why we pride ourselves on putting animals 'out of their misery' and then force our family members to live as long as possible in pain and without their dignity.

steddyeddy · 30-07-2010 03:49PM

kylith wrote: »

I am actually. I'd much rather a nice overdose of pain killers to a long, drawn out, painful death. My mind was made up on that score when I watched my grandmother die of cancer. To see her go from a vibrant woman to a husk who couldn't even raise her head, feed herself, or go to the bathroom was horrible. Give me the overdose any day.

I've always wondered why we pride ourselves on putting animals 'out of their misery' and then force our family members to live as long as possible in pain and without their dignity.

I agree with that totally its heart breaking.

Scrambled egg · 30-07-2010 03:51PM

I hear there is some tasty swans in the canal. Hurry though cos they're running out fast.

Corsendonk · 30-07-2010 08:23PM

Scrub my idea of killing a Humpback whale!! I found better! Another poster in AH is running a thread on assassinating BIFFO, why dont you do it and eat him???

NoHornJan · 31-07-2010 12:43AM

That could be suicide...

NoHornJan · 31-07-2010 12:56AM

goat2 wrote: »

sick sick sick
go pick the snails and have a feast,

That's not a vegetarian option...

31-07-2010 12:56PM

SquirrelFace wrote: »

Why do you feel the need to kill something just because you can? I would be capable of killing a small child seeing as I'm obviously a lot bigger and smarter than it, and it clearly isn't intelligent enough to have made a rifle to defend its meaty self, but that doesn't mean I'm going to.... No offence but its no big manly feat being able to kill something which didn't stand a chance. I don't think anyones gonna be that impressed with "I shot a rabbit from twenty feet away with a big feck-off gun, thereby asserting myself as top of the food chain! HARDCORE!!"
I can't help but feel you are determined to kill an animal to piss off the vegetarians in the aforementioned vegetarian thread...
Anyway just my honest opinion:) Please don't get the animal in question from a pet shop, thats just mean:(

Excellent username..

steddyeddy · 31-07-2010 01:02PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Excellent username..

squirrel face run hes got a taste for blood!

Capt'n Midnight · 31-07-2010 01:56PM

flas wrote: »

because were top of the food chain and we can. and also we always have lived off meat!

Most of the food eaten by hunter gatherers was that gathered by the women, not by the male hunters. Meat has always been a luxury rather than a staple.

Capt'n Midnight · 31-07-2010 02:05PM

kylith wrote: »

I'd say you could nobble a grey squirrell with a catapult, or even a trap. They're an invasive species, so you're doing the country a favour, and they're pretty yummy.

Best thing to do would be to raise and train Pine Martens to hunt squirrels on the ground.

SquirrelFace · 31-07-2010 06:12PM

Leave the squirrels alone.......

:o

steddyeddy · 31-07-2010 06:14PM

SquirrelFace wrote: »

Leave the squirrels alone.......

:o

Squirrelface did i see you in my back garden with some nuts in your mouth the other day :P

SquirrelFace · 31-07-2010 06:22PM

^^I'm sorry but that sounds like a sexual euphemism to me!!

:cool:

Forest Master · 31-07-2010 06:54PM

Sykk wrote: »

What would Bear Grylls do?

Pretend he's in the middle of nowhere, then go stay in his hotel?

longshanks · 31-07-2010 10:47PM

you want to know how to catch a rabbit?

hide in some bushes and make carrot sounds

Degsy · 31-07-2010 11:00PM

OP pm me if ya wanna go hunting.

Capt'n Midnight · 31-07-2010 11:38PM

How do you catch a unique rabbit ?

Unique Up On It.

How Do You Catch A Tame Rabbit?

Tame Way, Unique Up On It

I want to kill an animal.

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