What creatures are below animal cruelty in your opinion?

14-04-2014 12:37PM #1

Often we hear stories that cause outrage when it comes to animal cruelty. Over the years we've heard of horses being left to starve, cats being abandoned and dogs being booted around. On the flip side, nobody would bat an eyelid if someone swatted a fly or stepped on a bug. Where is the cut-off point? Is it cruel to step on a snail? Or to kill a frog? Is it something you consider a potential pet where it stops? Weird topic I know but what's your views?

PizzamanIRL · 14-04-2014 12:39PM

Anything that has big enough eyes that can stare at you with emotion so a frog is a no no.

deise08 · 14-04-2014 12:44PM

Honestly I don't think any creature is beyond cruelty. It has been scientifically proven that pain is felt by fish being hooked.
I even think that whole 'live insect eating' on that I'm a celebrity channel is disgusting. That they are passing it off as entertainment and getting away with it is worse.
I don't agree with any cruelty.

D1stant · 14-04-2014 12:46PM

John Waters?

blastman · 14-04-2014 12:47PM

I constantly step on snails accidentally (usually coming home from the pub in the dark) and feel guilty about it. I have chased cockroaches to do the same to them, though.

Short answer, I've no idea.

The One Doctor · 14-04-2014 12:47PM

Cruelty to children seems to be below cruelty to animals. The ISPCA gets far more in donations than the ISPCC ever did. I always laugh at people who champion the prevention of cruelty to animals. They'd probably kick a child out of the way to help a limping puppy. Arses. I never donate to animal charities as they're all either misguided or a blatant con.

The richest charity in the UK is the Donkey Sanctuary. That says a lot about people.

King George VI · 14-04-2014 12:49PM

if it can cry, don't kill it. Those ****ing flying daddy longleg things can't cry. Kill 'em all.

mitosis · 14-04-2014 12:50PM

People chase crows and starlings away from bird feeders. People let a ladybird crawl on their hands but scream if a black beetle comes near them. A mouse is a pest but a gerbil a pet.

The line is drawn between perceived cute and perceived uncute.

discus · 14-04-2014 12:52PM

As my mam used to tell me when i would step on insects I didn't like; "we're all gods creatures" bloody pacifists

stefan idiot jones · 14-04-2014 12:53PM

Vegetarian, animal lover. However, ants, cockroaches and the French have to die in large quantities.

razorblunt · 14-04-2014 12:54PM

Cats.

I joke I joke.

Still don't trust them though.

pundy · 14-04-2014 12:54PM

i once swatted a wasp on the dart, and a mad middle aged hippy mad-woman snorted at me in disgust and said "you do realise that was a living creature just like yourself"?

i laughed in her face and left my seat.

generally, just dont do harm to any living things, if can be avoided.

saying that, if a dog came up and viciously attacked me, i'd be fighting back and would probably take it's eyes in the melee.

14-04-2014 12:57PM

Creatures that will kill you by means of poison or constriction. Certain spiders, snakes, fish etc. They can all fcuk right off.

Also, if given the chance, a sloth will kill you and everyone you care about. True story*

*Probably not

Gyalist · 14-04-2014 01:00PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG4WhppBNCM

razorblunt · 14-04-2014 01:00PM

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Creatures that will kill you by means of poison or constriction. Certain spiders, snakes, fish etc. They can all fcuk right off.

Also, if given the chance, a sloth will kill you and everyone you care about. True story*

*Probably not

You're damn right he would, if he could be bothered to get down from his tree.

Birneybau · 14-04-2014 01:02PM

Pubic lice.

And tapeworms.

Neither of which I suffer from

anymore

mdwexford · 14-04-2014 01:05PM

None.

I catch spiders for my girlfriend in a tissue and then set them free outside the front door or window rather than squash them.

14-04-2014 01:06PM

Spiders and rodents deserve everything they get.

*Shudders*

fussyonion · 14-04-2014 01:07PM

I don't like to see people killing spiders. They don't frighten me and I think they're useful to have in your house 'cos they trap those annoying little gnats and things.

I'm terrified of moths and would have absolutely no problem killing them.

Rats or mice-I wouldn't want them tortured but if they die or are killed in mousetraps, the fine.
I suppose some people would class traps as torture but I would like to think they die instantly.

Bluebottles/gnats/houseflies-I'll kill them no problem.
Daddy long legs-I let them free, even though they creep me out.

dodderangler · 14-04-2014 01:14PM

I was a little boll0x when I was younger. Pulled the legs off spiders and caught flies or spiders to put into webs. Bees in bottles and kicked the bottles aswell. thankfully I stopped doing all that......last week

we'llallhavetea · 14-04-2014 03:31PM

Spiders, moths, butterflies. I'd burn down the house to kill these cnuts

dodderangler · 14-04-2014 03:47PM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

Spiders, moths, butterflies. I'd burn down the house to kill these cnuts

No one ever suspects the butterfly mwah ha ha ha

GenieOz · 14-04-2014 03:49PM

I think there's a cuteness scale for this thing. Brought out of by some professor years ago

Dyr · 14-04-2014 03:51PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

Cruelty to children seems to be below cruelty to animals. The ISPCA gets far more in donations than the ISPCC ever did.

No ones ever had a cat chuck a brick through their window

jester77 · 14-04-2014 03:52PM

Mosquitoes and wasps are about the only things I won't think twice about eliminating. Hate cleaning up their remains. Everything else I will catch and bring outside.

14-04-2014 03:53PM

Coveys, Coveys are terrible creatures, do onto them as you like.

I am pie · 14-04-2014 03:56PM

Cockroaches. Got no problem giving them both barrels with the poison spray.

They are too tricky to catch and if anyone wants to live in a house with cockraoches let them at it, but if they appear in my place they get the gas. The drains get laced with poison by the exterminator every few months so no doubt hundreds more get sent off to the other side that way.

Spiders I tend to be happy enough to see, because they deal with the mosquitos quite well and there are no poisonous ones that live here, at least not in the city. Sorry, mosquitos also...they get squashed. They bite, am not into red itchy rashes or, if you are especially unlucky, dengue. No problems killing mosquitos.

Mark Tapley · 14-04-2014 03:56PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

Cruelty to children seems to be below cruelty to animals. The ISPCA gets far more in donations than the ISPCC ever did. I always laugh at people who champion the prevention of cruelty to animals. They'd probably kick a child out of the way to help a limping puppy. Arses. I never donate to animal charities as they're all either misguided or a blatant con.

The richest charity in the UK is the Donkey Sanctuary. That says a lot about people.

Isn't there a theory that you are never more than six feet away from an arsehole?

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-04-2014 03:58PM

Wasps

YFlyer · 14-04-2014 03:59PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

Cruelty to children seems to be below cruelty to animals. The ISPCA gets far more in donations than the ISPCC ever did. I always laugh at people who champion the prevention of cruelty to animals. They'd probably kick a child out of the way to help a limping puppy. Arses. I never donate to animal charities as they're all either misguided or a blatant con.

The richest charity in the UK is the Donkey Sanctuary. That says a lot about people.

Because donkeys carry the cross.

14-04-2014 04:02PM

Vito Corleone wrote: »

If you were to kick a rabbit to death in broad daylight people would be shocked yet if you kill a fly nobody cares. I don't get it.

If rabbits kept buzzing around you and landing on your food I think people would be ok with kicking them out of the way.

What creatures are below animal cruelty in your opinion?

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