So, what animals have you killed? (if any) Multiple choice poll

What creatures have you killed?

  • Insects, arachnids, and/or other arthopodes

    Votes: 34 94.4%

  • Reptiles (eg snakes)

    Votes: 10 27.8%

  • Small mammals (mice, other small mammals)

    Votes: 13 36.1%

  • Birds (either for food or hunting)

    Votes: 11 30.6%

  • Large mammals (eg cows, for food)

    Votes: 3 8.3%

  • Pet mammals (dogs, cats, etc)

    Votes: 3 8.3%

  • Other/Humans

    Votes: 8 22.2%
  • Total voters
    36
  • Poll closed .
I delighted in reenacting the Great Deluge on a daily basis for ant trails on the sink in a old childhood home.

As for other species, I have only killed them in video games.
 
Threads, I've killed a lot of threads..

In addition to that I've killed various birds and fish. All went quickly and all were eaten. A few mice have also met their end from my doings.
 
SS-18 ICBM said:
I delighted in reenacting the Great Deluge on a daily basis for ant trails on the sink in a old childhood home.

As for other species, I have only killed them in video games.
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:(

I did at some point drown some black ants in the sink. However i placed the ants inside shampoo inverted plastic corks (or how those are called), so they acted like ships for the ants, which were the sailors. The sea was obviously the water in the sink. A tempest would be created by the flow from the siphon there. I tended to liberate the final ant left in this great naval battle. I either played this game 2 or 3 times, so anything up to 20 ants might have died during it. RIP.

I later on regretted that game as well :( Troubled times in late elementary school for myself (parents divorced finally, a year later).

I also recall that at the time i was wondering if inducing an extra-ordinary experience on those beings might lead them to develop something new. But instead they only suffered.
 
Mosquitoes, wasps, yellow jackets, roaches, random beetles, ticks, spiders, and probably a few other types of insect creatures.
All killed through a variety of methods, including crushed with newspapers, drowned, crushed with shoes, crushed with my bare hands, poisoned with raid, vroomed with a lawnmower, etc.
And for ticks specificaly gradually dismembered with rocks and/or my fingernails, they are resilient little buggers.

With my car I've hit a small yellow bird, no idea where it came from just hit my windshield at 60mph, presumably it died but I didn't confirm the kill. Also a small running animal at night, idk what it was possibly a small dog or a cat, or just a squirrel again I didn't go back for confirmation.

While mowing I took off the top of a turtle's shell by accident, I felt really bad, not sure if it survived but it's possible.

I also hit a very large (5-7') snake with 20+ (frozen) rounds from my paintball gun, most shots were to the head but I also targeted the body. Eventually it went limp, and I went back inside to play Civ and think about how to dispose of the body, when I went back out it was gone. So it may well have brain damage, but likely survived my attack.

That's all I can think of for now.
 
nc-1701 said:
Mosquitoes, wasps, yellow jackets, roaches, random beetles, ticks, spiders, and probably a few other types of insect creatures.
All killed through a variety of methods, including crushed with newspapers, drowned, crushed with shoes, crushed with my bare hands, poisoned with raid, vroomed with a lawnmower, etc.
And for ticks specificaly gradually dismembered with rocks and/or my fingernails, they are resilient little buggers.

With my car I've hit a small yellow bird, no idea where it came from just hit my windshield at 60mph, presumably it died but I didn't confirm the kill. Also a small running animal at night, idk what it was possibly a small dog or a cat, or just a squirrel again I didn't go back for confirmation.

While mowing I took off the top of a turtle's shell by accident, I felt really bad, not sure if it survived but it's possible.

I also hit a very large (5-7') snake with 20+ (frozen) rounds from my paintball gun, most shots were to the head but I also targeted the body. Eventually it went limp, and I went back inside to play Civ and think about how to dispose of the body, when I went back out it was gone. So it may well have brain damage, but likely survived my attack.

That's all I can think of for now.
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This is clearly a side question, but do you normally have frozen paintball rounds on hand? If so, why?
 
bhsup said:
Well done, and a nicely parsed reply as well! :goodjob:
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It was an easy one. I also got it but was to busy speaking about my great spearfishing feats.
 
Timsup2nothin said:
This is clearly a side question, but do you normally have frozen paintball rounds on hand? If so, why?
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At the time my mom had about a dozen chickens for eggs. Snakes would regularly come eat them so we kept them on hand precisely for shooting snakes. Typically I'de get one or two hits before it fled into the brush, but this time it climbing on the exterior of the coop and couldn't easily flee, hence why I able to target it so succesfully.
 
I kill bugs on purpose on a regular basis, I've occasionally run over dogs, cats, and opossums, and I've caught a fish or two. I also killed a toad and a salamander in my childhood; the toad on accident (I was throwing it up in the air and catching it -- once I didn't catch it) and the salamander on purpose. I dropped a rock on it. I may have killed a snake in my childhood after I picked up a cinder block, spotted it, and dropped the block again before running away. I intend on learning to hunt eventually.
 
How do you know? What about eating moluscs? Octopus for instance are very intelligent and like football.
 
Kyriakos said:
Forgot fish and some other maritime creatures (eg octopodes, sharknados etc).
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Silly Greeks, thinking you can kill sharknados. No wonder that country is bankrupt. :rolleyes:



First three for me. I've killed more ants invading my parents house than I can count, and I have killed plenty of mice up here with glue traps. I'm pretty sure I accidentally killed a snake when I was a kid, as well as a variety of small insects when playing outside.

Never been fishing, though. So I haven't killed any aquatic life.
 
Timsup2nothin said:
The insects might have been too, but those who haven't tried them will never know.
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I have no interest in eating mosquitoes. I just want them dead, and when they are dead (ie. a blob of blood and body parts smushed on the wall), there's not a lot left to eat anyway.
 
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I've just remembered killing a frog only the other year with my lawn mower. I'd accidentally run it over, but I only knew this when I saw it limping bloodily off. I was at a bit of a loss what to do. So I ran it over again, which seemed to stop it limping any more.
 
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