Animal Murder: What animals have you killed

[riff]

I was reading about your favorite animals in another thread. It just got me to thinking about how beautiful all life is- all things, really- but in particular, the animals that crawl or swim or fly about our lovely little planet.

And then I wondered about killing animals. And respect for life. Have you ever murdered an animal? I am not talking about hunting or fishing where you eat the animal, I am talking about killing for no reason. Senselessly taking the life of another creature.

North America's favorite marsupial. May I make a confession of a childhood crime?

A friend of mines dad trapped nutrea when I was a little boy. He used those nasty traps that clamp onto the poor creature's foot leaving the animal to suffer there until killed by another animal or taken by the trapper.

Well, we got one of those things and set it up in woods behind our house. I think we were about 9 or 10 years old- we lived in Slidell, LA. We left our trap in the woods. I can't remember if it was that day or the next, but I went to the trap to check it. There was a 'possom caught in it.

What to do with it? She was almost dead? I released the trap and brought her home by the tail. I took her into the back yard and bashed her skull in with a hammer. Can't say I felt too good about it- it was so pointless. The worst part of it was when I looked in her pouch and saw those little 'possoms. I didn't know what to do! All I knew was me and my friend had done something really really stupid. I was too ashamed to tell my parents and I didn't want to kill the babies with the hammer.

I dug a hole and stuck the possum and her babies in it and buried it. I remember it in detail now. It was a Sunday in summer. Digging that hole, the sweat dripping off my forehead. It felt like sin.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I'm a non-sexual serial cricket killer. Does that count?

 

[perks]

fish, crabs, lobster, bunny, deer, duck, chicken


and a cat.

 

[riff]

I'm a non-sexual serial cricket killer. Does that count?

Crickets. I never kill crickets except for bait. I'll kill a roach in a heartbeat because they will spread disease in my home. That's self-preservation.

You don't like crickets, Killermuffin?

 

[Caressa]

I've run over a frog on a rainy night with my car...

and I once had a bird fly into the grill of my car while driving..


but both of those were accidents...but they animals were dead nonetheless....

not exactly what you were looking for, eh riff?

 

[riff]

fish, crabs, lobster, bunny, deer, duck, chicken


and a cat.

A cat? I didn't kill a cat alone- but once at about the same age me and my cousins were camping out and there was a cat lynching. I felt the same way as I did when I killed the possum afterward. Probably worse- whose cat was it? Maybe a nice old lady's comfort in loneliness? I do not know. But I was a part of it. I am haunted by the sound it made when it died. Yep. I took part in that.

 

[riff]

I've run over a frog on a rainy night with my car...

and I once had a bird fly into the grill of my car while driving..


but both of those were accidents...but they animals were dead nonetheless....

not exactly what you were looking for, eh riff?

Accidents happen. I am talking about non-accidents. Like the countless frogs and lizards I killed by running over them with my bike and skateboard. Just killing to be killing.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I hate crickets to the extent that it stopped me from getting a number of lizards for pets. Then I got the StudMuffin and now he's an excuse.

I forgot, I once shot a dog who'd gone blood crazy.

 

[perks]

A cat? I didn't kill a cat alone- but once at about the same age me and my cousins were camping out and there was a cat lynching. I felt the same way as I did when I killed the possum afterward. Probably worse- whose cat was it? Maybe a nice old lady's comfort in loneliness? I do not know. But I was a part of it. I am haunted by the sound it made when it died. Yep. I took part in that.

The cat consumed some insecticide and was dying. He was convulsing badly and the vet told me he had to be put down. My roommate<the owner of said cat> wouldn't pay for the shots, and I didn't have the money. So instead of letting it suffer, I killed it.

 

[riff]

I hate crickets to the extent that it stopped me from getting a number of lizards for pets. Then I got the StudMuffin and now he's an excuse.

I forgot, I once shot a dog who'd gone blood crazy.

That would be mercy killing, Muffin (the dog).

Studmuffin is a Gecko?

 

[bored1]

Shot a bird once when I was a kid, didnt feel real good about myself after that little experiment. I have accidently hit deer and other animals that had the misfortune to come in contact with my car. but nothing felt like the time i deliberately shot that bird

 

[riff]

The cat consumed some insecticide and was dying. He was convulsing badly and the vet told me he had to be put down. My roommate<the owner of said cat> wouldn't pay for the shots, and I didn't have the money. So instead of letting it suffer, I killed it.

Mercy-killing. Not murder. I want to hear about MURDER of animals. You ladies with little boys.... just watch.

 

[Laurel]

When I was 12, I was an accomplice to murder. My sister had a rat that she loved. She decided to give it a bath - using dog shampoo. Well, I guess dogs don't have pores, so the stuff in the shampoo was pretty harsh. 10 minutes after the bath, the poor rat seizured and died. It was pretty traumatic.

 

[riff]

Shot a bird once when I was a kid, didnt feel real good about myself after that little experiment. I have accidently hit deer and other animals that had the misfortune to come in contact with my car. but nothing felt like the time i deliberately shot that bird

I blasted a fucking blue-jay with a twelve-gauge once from about 10 foot. I was about 14. Peckerheads. I hated them. One attacked my sister when I was about six. Dad said they were nast birds that went around eating other "nice" bird's eggs.

Don't think I'll ever murder another blue jay again.

 

[unclej]

when i was pre-teen and teenage i spent as much time as i could in the woods and fields with my pellet rifle and would shoot just about any bird that would sit still long enough..squirrels or rabbits were food but birds, grasshoppers and such were just targets...i actuallly outgrew that by the time i joined the service and i still hunt and fish but i'm finding that hunting is loosing it's thrill...haven't shot a deer for two years now...

 

[riff]

When I was 12, I was an accomplice to murder. My sister had a rat that she loved. She decided to give it a bath - using dog shampoo. Well, I guess dogs don't have pores, so the stuff in the shampoo was pretty harsh. 10 minutes after the bath, the poor rat seizured and died. It was pretty traumatic.

Accident. Unless it was a scientific experiment, like the time we put rubber cement on a toad to see what would happen.

Rubber cement will kill a toad. So will spraying one with "Off."

 

[riff]

when i was pre-teen and teenage i spent as much time as i could in the woods and fields with my pellet rifle and would shoot just about any bird that would sit still long enough..squirrels or rabbits were food but birds, grasshoppers and such were just targets...i actuallly outgrew that by the time i joined the service and i still hunt and fish but i'm finding that hunting is loosing it's thrill...haven't shot a deer for two years now...

Ah.... you understand me!

 

[unclej]

yeah, and i like the shit out of your new av

 

[Wiggles]

This brings back traumatic memories of my step brother smashing frogs between bricks and flinging them at my window.

Ew.

 

[naudiz]

Hello. My name is Naudiz, and I'm a complete pansy-ass wuss.

I squashed a spider once with malice aforethought. It wasn't hurting anything. It was just there, and I squashed it because it was there. No biggie, except for the GUT WRENCHING GUILT that pursues me to this day. Like what did that spider ever fucking to do me?

If there's a bug in the house, I won't step on it. I put it outside.

I beat the holy living shit out of two kids bigger than me once because they were torturing a cat. Mom and dad let me keep the cat. He was pretty neat. I've kind of got this thing about animals.

 

[riff]

I do too.

 

[SexySlut2]

It's not an animal, but I used to take slugs and pour salt on them just to watch them 'melt'.

 

[naudiz]

Technically, slugs are animals. Now algae, that's not an animal. And what the fuck has it ever done for me, huh? Though I guess pouring salt on the stuff won't really do much.

- Naudiz, clearly out of her mind.

 

[Starfish]

 

[riff]

My brother chopped down a beautiful live oak tree just to watch it fall. I hated him for it. I chopped pines. Never liked them.

I love cedar trees the most- but they are plants, aren't they?