Casually killing creatures

Taking pleasure in doing it is where I would place the line.

Yeah, I'm the same - I'd kill any insect/bug no bother, but would only kill something else if it was a mercy death.
Like my cat sometimes leaves half dead things in our garden - luckily my husband has always been here to deal with it, but I would kill the bird/rabbit/whatever if I had to.

Spiders, flies, mice, rats etc have no business in my home so they will be killed if they come in.

Wouldn't have any problem killing a rabbit or fox out shooting if my aim wasn't so bad.

The King of Moo wrote: »

dodderangler wrote: »

This should be fun
Il tell the rest of the lads on the hunting section to come over
Il start it off il kill anything that's in range and in season and foxes question is what would I not kill
Answer - dog

What would your reasons for killing them be?

Why do I need a reason?
I hunt that's my reason it's my pastime

micropig wrote: »

A seal:pac:

i sure you have heard that awful story on the news, some cruelty

flies. and maybe that chick from M-people

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Where do you draw line as to which creatures are ok to casually kill? For example I have no problem morally standing on a spider or any insect, but standing on a mouse would feel a bit wrong to me.

At what point on the spectrum of life forms do you begin to feel guilt killing them?

I'm not comfortable killing any creatures. I've spent stupid amounts of time trying to encourage flies to fly out windows I've opened for them, and the idiot creatures almost always go the opposite direction. That said, since I took two cats in to my home to live with me, those stupid flies get caught and eaten by one of my cats more often than they make the smart decision to fly out the window.

I've even apologised to tiny spiders after I've accidentally killed them - and I'm not keen on spiders, although I do find the tiny ones cute :eek:

A few years ago, a spider (one of the tiny cute ones) ended up spending three days bungee springing on his own spider string from one of my lamps. I named him Bungee Spider because he spent those three days pirouetting up and down on his spider string which was dangling from the lamp beside my computer. This was before I had cats....though my cats don't seem to be able to see spiders. I got quite fond of Bungee Spider, and, I guess, he didn't need to eat all that much because he spent all that time either pirouetting or sleeping in his spider-string hammock, until one day (3 days later) I noticed he was gone, never to return again

A friend of mine killed a cock roach once and I was glad she did. It took a lot of brute force, and a concrete block to do it, but I didn't lament its passing. We were camping in Portugal, and the evening before we'd been drinking and chatting with some other camp-site dwellers when the conversation turned to cockroaches. I'd never seen a cockroach at this point (this was many, many moons ago) and said as much. Later that night, as I slept in my tent, I (in a wakeful moment) felt something run up my leg. Laughing to myself, I concluded it was my imagination, considering the conversation we'd had, and went to sleep again.

The next morning, as I was bimbling about in my tent, I lifted a bag/jumper/don't remember what and out scuttled a cockroach. I had never realised I could exit a tent backwards with great speed until that morning. Anyway, my friend (the concrete block wielding friend) wasted no time locating the offending creature and getting him out of the tent to have his head, body and entire existence bashed to death.

Years later, in Thailand, I saw cockroaches being roasted and sold as snacks outside a train station. I declined. Not for 'life is precious' reasons, but, well, do I need to elaborate why?

micropig wrote: »

fyp:p

Ya little rascal.

If it does not bother me I wont bother it.

Spiders/Flys, I wont actively try and kill them and will move em out of the
way with as sheet of paper or waving that arms to get them out the window.
I dont see a NEED to kill anything living without a reason.

Rodents I've had them as pets as a kid so wont try and kill them without a
good reason, I've 10 Cats so they take care of any vermin in the neighborhood but I will still try and prevent them from killing anything if its in my face.

Bearing in Mind I'm a gun owner but anti-blood sport but at the same time
I'm no tree hugging hippie and love my McDonalds burgers and have no issue
with culling or stopping vermin, and I have no issue with Animals been killed
for food (Pigs are cute and make great pets and are intelligent but they also taste great when I dont have to do the nasty killing of them) I do draw the line when it comes to Trophy Hunting when it comes from Killing for the thrill of the hunt when the animal does not need to die, regardless of the excuses that it brings in XXX amount of cash to a 3rd world country or it was bred to be hunted etc etc etc (insert excuse) it kinda leaves me in Limbo land.

seen over in the hunting/shooting boards before things that have stumped me.

Some lad who used to shoot Rabbits as vermin until there was no rabbits about his patch of land
and then he has a bright idea of introducing them into the area again just so he's got something to shoot. That makes no sense whatsoever. It basically means he's done his job with ridding the area
of vermin but now wants to re-introduce the vermin just because he wants the pleasure rather than requirement to shoot and kill them where he has permission to shoot. That to me crosses the line
where a Person is Killing a living thing for the Pleasure of Killing rather than the actual Need to kill it.

Hunters that complain about not seeing much bunnies to shoot around their place
you would think would be thankful they have no pest to deal with in their area but
instead they are disappointed they have nothing to shoot.

Something that a Townie/semi country person will never understand I guess.

~B

Can't kill a spider? Google "camel spider". You'll need a grenade.

I don't mind little spiders. I'll let them go but big spiders the size of your palm or larger, oh, I'll kill them. Even if it means throwing a phone book, shrieking, and running in the opposite direction.


On another note... do you really say "standing on a spider" instead of "stepping on a spider"?

Killer Wench wrote: »

Can't kill a spider? Google "camel spider". You'll need a grenade.

I don't mind little spiders. I'll let them go but big spiders the size of your palm or larger, oh, I'll kill them. Even if it means throwing a phone book, shrieking, and running in the opposite direction.


On another note... do you really say "standing on a spider" instead of "stepping on a spider"?

I've flushed a spider down the loo if that counts.

BornToKill wrote: »

More likely those were giant water bugs rather than cockroaches. They do look alike though when roasted!

Pair of ye are well named for this thread I tell ya!