Could you kill an animal?

[SoapyShowerBoy]

The thread with the pesky fox just got me thinking. Despite all the inherent problems the fox brings I couldn't bring myself to kill an animal. In fact, I couldn't even kill an ant!

I remember stepping on a spider when I was a kid and my Father said 'never take what you cannot give back!'

[Steamer]

SoapyShowerBoy said:

....'never take what you cannot give back!'

Thankfully my first girlfriend's dad never told her the same thing!! We would never have got anywhere.

Sorry thats totally off topic.

I seriously try not to kill animals these days (ie Bunnies in the road on early morning hoons) but if its them or an oak tree... I'm taking the Brer Rabbit out, sorry

Edited by Steamer on Tuesday 16th June 19:14

[SMKurt]

Mincer.

[Papa_Hotel]

Killed loads. Nothing more therapeutic than hitting the countryside with a shotgun and blasting some rabbits to oblivion. Foxes too if you can get close enough, crows, pigeons.
Never been fishing but I'd love to kill a fish in cold blood, something primeval about pitting your might against a fish hooked on a line, out of water.

[LoveMachine]

fking townies.

[Jasandjules]

I prefer not to. But if it came to food or the bunny, the bunny gets it.

[mat13]

LoveMachine said:

fking townies.

+1

[stifler]

Yes. I have many times before. Nothing special. Kill to eat. That includes some animal that will eat your food if you don't kill it.

OP, I guess that you are a townie?

[GingerWizard]

mat13 said:

LoveMachine said:

fking townies.

+1

+1

[Fittster]

Yep, and I don't see any difference between killing for entertainment or food. In the end the animal ends up dead so the reason it reaches that state is pretty irrelevant IHMO.

So food, fur coats, medical research, fox hunting, dog fight are pretty much the same thing.

[Ayahuasca]

SoapyShowerBoy said:

The thread with the pesky fox just got me thinking. Despite all the inherent problems the fox brings I couldn't bring myself to kill an animal. In fact, I couldn't even kill an ant!

I remember stepping on a spider when I was a kid and my Father said 'never take what you cannot give back!'

It's going to make your new career as a castaway on a desert island pretty short!

[Dupont666]

do chavs count as animals?

[Sheets Tabuer]

Yes, have done many times, in fact I'd have no problem getting rid of half the humam race so a fox would be no problem.

[Murray993]

seriously that whole shower thing has got to you. Are you the cleaner....

[stifler]

GingerWizard said:

mat13 said:

LoveMachine said:

fking townies.

+1

+1

Us country bumpkins are rubbish at maths aren't we?

+4

[Allanv]

stifler said:

GingerWizard said:

mat13 said:

LoveMachine said:

fking townies.

+1

+1

Us country bumpkins are rubbish at maths aren't we?

+4

+5

[Pigeon]

Yes, I can and have euthanased incurably ill or injured pigeons, using a method which I would be happy to have used on myself (splatting the head so the brain is destroyed before it can register the pain).

Any other reason than euthanasia or food is entirely unacceptable and should carry a mandatory prison sentence.

Anyone who kills for entertainment is a sick fk.

[Murray993]

Pigeon said:

Anyone who kills for entertainment is a sick fk.

But playing God to Pigeons is fine?

[stifler]

Pigeons taste nice

[okgo]

As it happened I put a fox that was hit by a car to sleep the other day. So yes. not to mention the many other things I have shot in the past.