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

[Timsup2nothin]

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.

That was the humane thing to do.

 

[Borachio]

Well, that was my thinking at the time.

On the other hand, I might just have prevented a major breakthrough in surgical techniques, and general orthopedic care, in amphibian society.

In brief: my feelings are still mixed.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Well, that was my thinking at the time.

On the other hand, I might just have prevented a major breakthrough in surgical techniques, and general orthopedic care, in amphibian society.

In brief: my feelings are still mixed.

I think it's safe to say that would have been too big a breakthrough for amphibian medics to reach in one leap forward. If anything, you prevented a miraculous survival being attributed to some sort of great frog in the sky and setting amphibian society on the doomed road to theology. I think you did well.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

@Borachio:



Did you at least give it a respectful burial?

(Frogs don't deserve to be mistreated. I have felt guilty for 37 years for the one I had to dissect in my Grade 10 biology class.)

 

[Borachio]

No. It had a burial at sea. (If a lawn can be considered a kind of grass sea). And a burial as more a kind of scattering to the wind.

I felt so bad about the prospect of dissecting a frog in biology at school that I deliberately made a choice to take Latin instead (since we had to choose from biology, art and latin; and I was no good at art). It wasn't a happy choice, but at least I never dissected a frog. (Except with a lawn mower. Accidentally.)

 

[gay_Aleks]

On the bright side, the newly-gained skills in Latin will allow you to zing people in a language only lawyers and doctors know.

 

[Borachio]

Quod erat demonstrandum sic transit gloria mundi. <hic!>

 

[Valka D'Ur]

No. It had a burial at sea. (If a lawn can be considered a kind of grass sea). And a burial as more a kind of scattering to the wind.

I felt so bad about the prospect of dissecting a frog in biology at school that I deliberately made a choice to take Latin instead (since we had to choose from biology, art and latin; and I was no good at art). It wasn't a happy choice, but at least I never dissected a frog. (Except with a lawn mower. Accidentally.)

I needed two Grade 12-level science courses to get into college. Since I'm no good at math, physics was out. That meant I had to take biology and chemistry. But at least Grade 10 was the only year I had to dissect anything (frog and earthworm). The other years I was able to opt for other assignments and term projects that didn't involve dissection.

The same day I finished the frog dissection assignment, my mother and I went out to supper. She decided to try frogs' legs. I looked at her and said, "You're not seriously going to eat those, are you?"

"Well, sure!" she said.

So I told her exactly what the innards of a dead frog look like, and what they smell like when dissected frogs have to be left over a long weekend in the biology lab that's located in the same hallway as the chem lab where another class had to do an experiment using bromine - also left over a long weekend.

She happily chowed down on her frogs' legs and muttered about how I always had fish when we went out, and why I never wanted to try other things.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

She happily chowed down on her frogs' legs and muttered about how I always had fish when we went out, and why I never wanted to try other things.

Be thankful. She could have taken you down to the docks where they dispose of the heads and guts of those fish.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've seen fish cleaned before.

But we don't have docks here. Red Deer is inland, and our only lakes are located in a wildlife sanctuary - no fishing allowed, and only a few people ever bother to fish in the river.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I've seen fish cleaned before.

But we don't have docks here. Red Deer is inland, and our only lakes are located in a wildlife sanctuary - no fishing allowed, and only a few people ever bother to fish in the river.

Take what you saw, and expand it to a pier with some number of commercial boats bringing in fish by the net full. Add a shed where fish go in one end, filets come out the other, and heads and guts spew out one side into bins that always seem to be in the sun for some reason.

 

[Colonel]

Cows, pigs, ducks, deer, squirrel, rabbit, birds of different sorts, few snakes, alligator, elk, moose, once a bear though didnt want to, possum, raccoon tho again not through choice, bugs of course, mice ive fed to snakes, I'm sure there are other huntable animals that I have killed but simply can't remember.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I once killed a butterfly though didnt want to, how can that happen with a bear is beyond me.

 

[Colonel]

I once killed a butterfly though didnt want to, how can that happen with a bear is beyond me.

I was out hunting for deer and I had a bear charge me and a friend when we were getting down from our deer stand. So I put three 45 rounds through its head. Luckily a game officer saw what happened so I didn't get in trouble and they let me keep it. Made one hell of a blanket and tasted pretty good also.

 

[Commodore]

Insects (who hasn't killed a bug in their lifetime?), dogs, and humans for me. The latter two were a result of my military service. There was a pack of wild dogs that got into our JCOP and started breeding so we were ordered to shoot any dogs we saw within the JCOP that weren't one of our working dogs. Some of the humans I was directly responsible for killing during our operations and some I was indirectly responsible for from the intelligence I collected.

 

[classical_hero]

I have killed insects and the odd bird who has come into contact with my car, which isn't many. But there was a cat that i thought would be dead after it suddenly ran out from a scrub while I was driving to the local shops, so I had no chance of avoiding it, so I was expecting to see a flat cat, but to my surprise the cat ran just as fast back from whence it came. It was pleasantly surprised, but that cat lost one life that day.

 

[Domen]

No "fish" option ??!! Scandal!

 

[bhavv]

Insects / spiders / creepy crawly nasty things.

Not too long ago there was a small harmless spider walking around my walls. I decided to leave it alone. Then around 6 days later there were at least 10 of them all over my walls.

Morale of the story - if you see a spider, kill the spider, and then no outbreak of spiders.

 

[bhsup]

 

[James Stuart]

Take what you saw, and expand it to a pier with some number of commercial boats bringing in fish by the net full. Add a shed where fish go in one end, filets come out the other, and heads and guts spew out one side into bins that always seem to be in the sun for some reason.

My step-father used to work at an abbatoir. The smell was so bad, mum made him leave his clothes outside and wash them twice.