Have you ever killed an animal? (Nonhuman) did you feel remorse or did you just feel it is natural for a human to kill an animal?

[Msputiton]

y'all get into arguments i will remove the argument so don't force your beliefs on others.

[MysticAngel5000]

I've killed spiders on purpose because I hate spiders and I don't want them in MY space. If I can have them moved safely outdoors, I will. But I DO NOT want them crawling on me in the process. I understand they serve a purpose since they eat bugs and stuff, but I just don't like our paths crossing. Especially when it comes to my bedroom. Like no. You are not sharing the bed with me. Lol

I've killed other bugs or insects (especially mosquitoes - I have no shame in killing those since they seem to just LOVE biting me). I've accidentally killed a squirrel. I hit it with my car and felt pretty bad for the little guy. He started to run across, then debated on what to do and unfortunately made the wrong decision and met his end courtesy of my back tire. I heard the little thump and looked back in my mirror and yep... he was dead in the road. I was like oops. Sorry little dude.

I also hit my first deer finally (I love how I say "finally" like I was just waiting for it to happen - but I live in a highly populated deer area, so it's surprising it didn't happen way sooner). Whether it lived or died is debatable. It actually hit ME to be technical. I was driving and seen one deer run across, so I slowed to avoid her. As soon as I started to go again, another ran right into my driver's side. I heard the thump and knew we definitely made contact. A witness stopped to make sure I was ok and help me check my car. The witness confirmed yes, it WAS struck. They said at first it was still in the road behind me (I had pulled up a little so I had a better area to pull off the road to assess the situation and call the police to report it). It ended up running off, so I don't know if it had fatal injuries or not. I didn't see the body anywhere when I took the same road the very next morning (it is a road I travel pretty much daily for work)... so if it died, it had to have ran out into the fields/woods to die. I would assume it probably did since I know most deer definitely die once they're hit by a car... even at a lower speed. Luckily for me, my car didn't have any damage amazingly enough. I had some deer blood on my driver's side light (eww lol), but no actual damage to repair. I credit the first deer for that actually. Since I was already WAY below the speed limit to avoid her, I was spared damage from the second one.

[dustybiker]

Answering this from the outside list so I don’t have to read others replies.
An owl flew in front of my truck when driving on a freeway over a talk mountain pass. I doubled back to see if it was suffering. My friends mother worked for Patagonia at the time and they have wildlife recovery locations nearby.
A squirrel doubled back, questioning itself after darting out in front of my bike. It had cleared and slowed but it was too fast.
Won’t get over either. Thankfully they were both quick.

[Msputiton]

Oh dear. Did it upset you?

[dustybiker]

No, you’re good.

[Bricealan]

I have, and msputiton, I have to tell you that I had an incident when I was 16 with my father, that I have to live with until I die, and it always haunts me in a very terrible way. When I was that age, my dad took me hunting, and I enjoyed being outdoors with the dogs, (hounds) but I confess I did kill a few cotton tail rabbits, and am not proud of that, to this day.

The incident I must 'live' with to this day is this and it is horrible to recall. We were fox hunting and honest to god this is terrible. We found 'fox dens' and put a gas in the dens that forced the young ones out. One time a tiny cub was coming out to escape the gas and I shot this poor creature trying to escape dying in the gas. I was 16 years old and am now in my 40's and that horrible scene lives on in my mind to this day, never to be forgotten, nor for me to escape the terrible I still feel for doing such a disponible thing.

I never went hunting again, and forgive me, I cannot live this down. Thank you for allowing me to unload this on you.

Bruce

[Msputiton]

*big hugs*

[PatriceONeal]

Rabbts are an invasive species. They reproduce and consume resources at an unsustainable level. If your family lost its garden to a family of rabbits, would you then starve during the winter and watch your mother father and sister etc. die of hunger to save the cute widdle wabbits from your own survival priorities? Seems pretty insane in this context and it's how you need to view the world. A rabbit would eat your brain out of your head if it meant them living and they wouldn't have the brain power or prefrontal contex to even give a fuck.

[Subglacial]

@PatriceONeal Completely irrelevant to the post you responded to. Protecting your resources is not even remotely similar to hunting for sport. Also, try using a fence.

"Rabbits are an invasive species." This is ridiculous. Firstly, where? They can't be invasive everywhere; they must be native somewhere. Secondly, rabbits are not a single species. Here in eastern Massachusetts, NATIVE New England cottontails are being displaced by INVASIVE eastern cottontails. The kicker: some people attribute their spread to declining predator populations. Why are the predators declining? Because they're eating poisoned rats. Attempts to control one pest have created another.

"A rabbit would eat your brain [...] they wouldn't have the brain power or prefrontal cortex to even give a fuck." This has never been a good argument for any sort of violence. I'm not even saying it's wrong to kill rabbits, but THIS argument in particular is awful. An inability to sympathize with you says nothing about a creature's own capacity for suffering. A toddler with a gun could kill you without understanding, but that doesn't make it open season on toddlers. Hell, some ADULT people are incapable of understanding or feeling remorse, but that doesn't justify preemptively killing them because you think they might do the same to you in some specific scenario.

[ProVox]

Rabbits cost $2000 worth of wiring damage to my car. They are a burden in my area. Great to eat, too.

[PatriceONeal]

@Subglacial baby humans aren't comparable to wild animals. Everything you said is meaningless. "Can't be invasive everywhere" I think everyone who read that got dumber.

[PatriceONeal]

@ProVox rabbit is pretty delicious 😋

[PatriceONeal]

@Subglacial I'm curious if you are vegan/vegetarian. Whichever is the one that eats 0 meat products.

[ProVox]

@PatriceONeal absolutely, I love all wild game.

[Paul_in_Indy]

I’m a farm boy. So, that seems entirely normal to me. I prepared plenty of my own chickens and turkeys and lambs…helped prepare hogs. And, of course, I’ve hunted all kinds of game. I like to eat meat. So, killing animals as a normal thing for me

[Snedger____]

What's your favourite meat?

[Paul_in_Indy]

@Snedger____ Venison, by far

[Snedger____]

Wow nice.

[DesiUwU]

@Paul_in_Indy
I noticed a lot of people I've ever talked to about hunting say venison is a very good meat, but i'm kinda scared to ever try it

[Paul_in_Indy]

@DesiUwU I encourage you to go for it. Venison is not, at all scary. It is a red meat. I would say it falls between beef and lamb. It is very lean (and you want to trim away all the white fat and only keep the bright red meat), so it requires a light hand when cooking. But if not overcooked it is tender and has it’s own savory flavor. It isn’t a strong flavor or anything really exotic; just slightly different from lean beef or lean mutton.

I think many people are initially put off because meats all have a different aroma when cooking. Venison does not smell like beef or lamb or veal. So, that scares people, sometimes. But it is just different—not strange—once you taste it.

[DesiUwU]

I have a hard time eating meat in general lol cuz it just grosses me out. I still eat it because I eat what i'm served, but i try not to think about it.

[Msputiton]

@DesiUwU do you plan to go full vegetarian or vegan one day?

[DesiUwU]

i think so. I feel terrible eating meat and if seconds are available, i never get seconds on meat. Only problem is i really like bao buns and other chinese dishes that include meat

[melanieeeB]

Only bugs and spiders and I didn't feel bad about that.
I actually let spiders life but once I had a lot of baby-spiders in my bath and since that I can't let spiders life with me anymore... if I can, I will just bring them out but if not... bye.. yeah

[Msputiton]

Spiders terrify me😭

[PatriceONeal]

Daddy long legs too? They kill mosquitos and don't bite. They're chill.

[Emiliamazing]

I am not a fan of insects, especially spiders. Fortunately, my husband simply moves them outside to a sheltered location. I have hunted in the past with my father, quail. I don't feel terrible about that, but I do feel bad when an animal gets killed without purpose, such as in an accident along the road.

[Msputiton]

Yeah that is sad to see

[SwellStroke]

Being a farmer it is an unfortunate part of the life. Having to put down my first dog because he was figured out how to escape his kennel and taken a sheep. Once they get the taste of blood they are not the same. Still heart broken over many.

One that I still feel for, however it was made into something beautiful. Was being part of a ceremony in which a buffalo was sacrificed for the tribe I am a part of in my area. To which every part was divided amongst the family.
I personally have a hard time being around when the act is performed as I personally feel as a part of the animal in that moment. Heck I have a hard time if a bunny or mouse is skittering across a desert dirt road and have the unfortunate timing of meeting the vehicle in some fashion.

[NamerOfStars]

Quite a few. I've killed bugs, but you might not be counting those; that was a defense of territory (or body, in the case of mosquitoes), so I feel no guilt there. I've killed a few spiders, mostly by mistake; minor guilt there, since they helped with the bugs. I've killed a handful of mice; territory defense again, so no guilt.

Everything else I've killed I've either eaten or given to others to eat; that's as natural as natural gets, no guilt- save for one crippled bunny whose spine had been broken, which faced nothing but terror, pain, and hunger until some predator finished it off. My knife was both quicker and cleaner. I wish there had been another way, but it doesn't really bother me.

[NathanDavis]

oh, nonhuman...

a few times, because I had to... and I've never feel good about it

it's been just pests and little critters that I cannot risk to have within my clothes, or children, pets... nor adults for that matter, it is not fun to lose a toe to one of those crazy Texas spiders, lol

bigger than that, I haven't... not personally, not even as hunting or raising animals, which is a tradition in parts of my extended family, I just don't feel good about it and I do not have to do it either, lol.. not yet

now, if the day comes in which we have to live more off-the-grid... then yes, it will be the most natural thing and I would be able to do it, properly

[SpringValley]

My family are hunters. My dad bought me a high powered rifle. My cousin and I were driving along the logging roads, sipping whiskey, and listening to some tunes.

We came across two does. They had no fear, and were just eating grass and almost smiling at us.

My rifle was a cannon, and my cousin's rifle was a bigger cannon. My hunting days ended that day.

They call hunting a "sport", but as one comedian once said: "Hunting is the only sport where the other team doesn't know they're playing."

All I ever wanted to do, was go camping with the family. It's fun to be a pioneer.

[Agape93]

All the time. Most of my diet consists of deer, moose or bear that I've shot. I don't feel remorse, nor do I make the animal suffer if I can help it. Though I do get a big rush when I take down something difficult like a moose.

[Msputiton]

Oh wow. So you kill your own food

[Agape93]

Yeap. Got about 300 some lbs of venison in my freezer so far

[Bratsondanielle]

Whenever we have chicken or rabbit for dinner.

As long as you do it quick and painless there's nothing wrong with it

I have also occasionally had to shoot a predator because it was a threat to my chickens

People who shoot giraffe and bear only because they want the fur -- that's wrong!!!

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I feel bad about killing animals if they suffer. Saw a squirrel when I was probably 16 and its bones were dislocated. It was trying to hide somewhere and I put the guy out of his misery cuz I hated the idea of it being eaten alive while it's already in such a shitty situation.

That said, I'm excited to go deer hunting.

[Prettygurl12]

I have killed a few deer. Where I live, when drivers hit deer, they have to call the cops and then the cop (me) has to go and put the deer down on the side of the road and arrange its removal.

I have a big soft spot for animals so I don't enjoy killing them, but a bullet to the back of the head is infinitely more humane than allowing the animal to lay on the side of the street with its insides all mangled and just waiting for it to die.

[Sour-rose]

I haven't buuut now a days, animal, bug... human, if i gotta kill it... time to get the adrenaline pumping. Ain't gonna see god or visit the hospital today if i can help it.

Yes, I know I said bugs but some can be fatal to humans... or cost hospital bills. So they die too :D

[Wish4UrB00ty]

I have had to pout a few animals down. I also hit a couple animals with my car. Most of the time when it is an animal I will eat later I just feel great full for the meat. But I also had to pout a few pets down and I felt a little bad about that. I did it for their good though and would rather then be done with this life then to struggle.

[hypojoe]

When my dad got me my first bb gun I killed a lot I do feel remorse after a few more bad experiences I think of my dad who is big into hunting I think well what if hunting was illegal do you feel the need to kill because I know people that seem to have to kill all I know is every human and every animal have one thing that they all do and that is trying to live sometimes I wish the table was turned

[Smoothing]

Yes, I have slightered a chicken. No, i did nit feel remorse be ause I knew it would be delicious. The chicken is part of me now. "You are what you eat." The protein from the chicken helped build my body. So the chicken loves through me now. It is called recycling.

[RavVid]

I'm a farm boy and I have killed a lot of rabbits, some foxes and quite a few galahs (birds). Both rabbits and foxes are species that should never have been imported and set free here. It was just a job to shot the rabbits.

Eventually I got tired of killing them.

[sheenagwapa]

cockroach and ants and i think i was an accomplice of killing a rat before my ex is the one who killed the rat i ordered the execution little i then get so mad because i want the cage to be fully submerged into the water but i just saw the baby rat exhausted. it was a mother and kid rat that we kiled and itbreak my heart. they had last meal i give them cheese. i just don't like killinh

[AviatorTom]

We had our dog euthanized at age 14 when she could no longer move... she had spinal problems that deteriorated over time to where she couldn't move her legs and was obviously in pain.

[Msputiton]

I know that had to hurt you to do that

[Sixgunsound]

I just sold multiple hunting guns at my weekend job today. No animal is going to live forever, they may as well be useful to someone on their way out.

[Msputiton]

Gotcha

[whirled_up_girl]

My cat fatally injured a mouse one time but wouldn’t kill it so I killed it to put it out of its misery. I knew it was the right thing to do but I cried my eyes out because I had never killed anything before other than bugs or spiders.

[UnknownSwede]

I've killed fishes after catching them. I grew up fishing with my grandpa, but that's for food and not for fun.

I eat meat so I have no issue with people that fish or hunt, so that you can have something to eat. Since it's a lot better to eat wild animals than having animals living in captivity.

Hunting/fishing for sports is not something I encourage though.