09 Jan 06
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Originally posted by sasquatch672I respect your position and I don't feel there is anything wrong with it. It's just different positions thats all. I am also a militant animal lover, although not in the same way as you or others. I am also a realist when it comes to life and death make no bones about it. Dying by fire is much better than some of the rodent traps on the market. I mentioned the glue trap, because it is one that I find unusually and needlessly cruel and I refuse to buy them.
I never got angry. But you're not addressing my point. Okay, I have registered my objection to what this guy did, and now everybody knows I'm a militant animal lover. I'm done now.
http://www.idausa.org/facts/gluefacts.html
RTh
10 Jan 06
Originally posted by Will EverittSo you're saying rodents are a valuable resource which needs to be protected and conserved ? MORON !
I hate to let your ideas down but rats aren't at the bottom of the food chain belive it or not they don't get there energy from the sun.
I can just imagine the people of easter island saying "yea we are better then trees so we can chop them down" and then after a while they all die out as there are no trees and so they have nothing to build shelters ...[text shortened]... gh. Its that kind of mentality that means we have a chance of wiping ourselfs off the earth.
10 Jan 06
Originally posted by sasquatch672So if rats and mice are the same as dogs and cats , are you more of a "rat-person" , or a "mouse person" ? Have you ever had a pet rodent that you put on a leash and walked ? Taught tricks to ? Played in the park with ? And why are there no cat traps and dog traps in the supermarket right next to the rat poison ?
So now you're saying that the moral requirements of humans are no higher than animals, who don't have a sense of right and wrong? Let's get this straight - I served in the military, where the things one sees and does may cause one to develop a sardonic, callous sense of humor about death. And I think in alot of cases I probably fit that description. ...[text shortened]... animal lives, because humans can fend for and defend themselves, and animals can't.
If you have not yet , or somehow can't draw the distinction between vermin and pets then you are either the lowest form of white trash or stupid beond belief .
10 Jan 06
Originally posted by Moldy Crowsasquatch reminds me of my sister, Once we found a mouse nest in the garage, and threw it outside, and my sister in secret found the newborn mice, and tried to feed it from an eyedropper, she kept it in the medicine cabinet secretly, when we found them, they was all dead but one.
So if rats and mice are the same as dogs and cats , are you more of a "rat-person" , or a "mouse person" ? Have you ever had a pet rodent that you put on a leash and walked ? Taught tricks to ? Played in the park with ? And why are there no cat traps and dog traps in the supermarket right next to the rat poison ?
If you have not yet , or somehow can't ...[text shortened]... vermin and pets then you are either the lowest form of white trash or stupid beond belief .
10 Jan 06
Originally posted by aspviper666You're missing the point.
Crickey!!!
It's a God damned rat for Christsakes.
Does anyone here swat flies or wear mosquito spray???
Mice are a pest,pure and simple.They spread bacteria and are not
endangered.
The irony of the story is hilarious.
It's not about whether or not the mouse should have been killed. I think nearly any of us would kill a pest in our homes.
It's about the method the man in question chose to kill the mouse. He could have been a little more compassionate (yes, what compassion does a mere "rat" deserve...) and whacked it with a shovel, stomped it quickly, whatever. No, he had to throw it into a fire, which besides being ineffective and cruel (all it did was light the little b@stard aflame) was also not too smart in retrospect as he lost his house in the bargain.
10 Jan 06
Originally posted by aspviper666The sticky trap was the only alternative?
I worked in the grocery business.They used sticky traps for mice.Once bonded to the trap they struggle till they die or someone(usually me) went and bashed in their brains.The fire is more humane that the sticky trap.
cheers
10 Jan 06
Originally posted by flyUnityThis is hardly the insult to Sasquatch that you intended.
sasquatch reminds me of my sister, Once we found a mouse nest in the garage, and threw it outside, and my sister in secret found the newborn mice, and tried to feed it from an eyedropper, she kept it in the medicine cabinet secretly, when we found them, they was all dead but one.
10 Jan 06
Originally posted by dyl*slapping self on forehead*
The sticky trap was the only alternative?
Damn ...Thats right I was the corperate CEO at the time I could have used live traps and then relocate the mice to a sutable new home.
I had no say what they did with the mice.It was contracted out to an
exterminator.
I am a butcher not an executive fer chrissakes.lol