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killers remorse? or not?
Reading TN_bassin"s thread about his dog got me thinking about road kill in general. In the past I have lost 2 dogs and a horse to driveby's. Over the course of many years I have only hit 1 dog and I did stop and try to help but it was too late. However I have hit and killed many other animals and these are the typical thoughts than run through my head..am I evil?
Rabbit....don't even slow down Squirrell....what was that? Armadillo....thunk Possum.....huh Racoon....waste of a good pelt Fox........quick my a$$ Buzzard..........it's your own fault pal Various crossing birds......what are the odds Turtle....splat Deer....check alignment....and body Beaver....busy that Frog...splat To what level does a life form have to reach to merit anguish at its passing?
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I will slow down and do my best to avoid anything I see. I have gotten out of my truck to help a duck and her ducklings cross a road.
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Sounds more like Granny sent you for supplies so she could start the VITTLES.
I have difficulty killing anything I'm not eating. But I've heard more than one story of people getting out to remove a carcas to find out the animal is still alive......and pissed off!
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@NFE.......I am not one of those hateful people that actually swerves to hit something, my first wife would bring home every wild accident victom she came across. In all those years I never managed to keep a single one of them alive...
@joedog...many ethnic groups will eat things that make my skin crawl. I was just curious about how people react to such accidental deaths and where they draw the line between being sad and "oh well". As a teenager I used to feed the bait monkey by running a trap line for coons and fox every winter. Even way back then a XX coon hide would bring $25+ and a good red fox $40+. Every other sat the hide buyer would come by, it wasn't unusual for us to have 20-30 hides to sell. $900 a month was a lot of money for a 14 yr old. Anyway.......we inevitably got a lot of by-catch that refused to be humanely released and so from an early age I developed my own personal threshold for dead animals that hurt my feelings and those that didn't.
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i break my neck to jump and help turtles, though i love reptiles, i brake for snakes aswell
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@wally I'm guessing you had turtles as pets as a child which moves them up the line by default.
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@nfe........thank you for sharing your stand....that's all i was looking for.
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My line ends with insects, I try to respect life in general, but generally feel no remorse for killing a spider, ant, or other insects.
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As I have gotten older, I have lost the killer instinct I once had. I do still hunt on occasion with the sole intent of providing food, but even that is less appealing than it once was. I try to be very careful driving and brake for any animal I see in the road. I find no joy in killing something for the sake of killing it and do my best not to accidentally kill anything. That said, my line is probably somewhere just after rodent.
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I won't go out of my way to hit an animal. I will hit one if i have to to avoid an accident. When I was a young driver I hit a cat. I wasn't going to stop but I did. Good thing as there was a cop driving behind me. He made me knock on doors holding the cat and asking if it belonged to anyone. One lady opened up her door and screamed it was her cat. I didn't know what to do so i asked her if she would take money. She did and the cop arrested her. Got her for selling pu$$y.
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lmao! Old pu$$y, at that!
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I enjoy ripping little kitten's throats out with my teeth and watching them bleed to death.
Oh, and welcome back, Mallen....
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This is just as I suspected.....T5 prob spends summer afternoons frying snails with a magnifying glass and Mboy is prob just covering cause he tears up at just the thought of all the precious homeless kittys in the world
Hey did yall see....Kennygee just joined. excellent
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Thanks, ssippi!
On subject, I do my best not to kill anything that doesn't need killing. If I can avoid any animal on the road, I will. I decided not to swerve in a lot of cases. If something small runs out right in front of me, I leave it up to him whether he lives or dies. If I swerve but take him out anyways...my fault. If I stay the course and run him over...his fault. And I've often pulled over to escort a turtle to safety, as well. Had a lil deer run into the side of my car last year. Pulled him off the road to see if he'd make it or not. He finally came to and took off like a bat outta hell
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Well when I'm about to hit something small... Chipmunk, squirrell, opossum, rabbit, cat, etc... Instead of trying to miss it entirely I'll straddle it and if it's smart enough to keep it's head down and stop running then I figure it deserves to live... then again I drive a truck so I sit a little higher than a car would in that situation... I hit a squirrell not too long ago that didn't stop when I glided over him... I felt terrible afterwards.
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Yeah, but you're in the clear lol. You put his life in his hands
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Ya know what cracks me up every time I see it? Stoopid turkeys tryin to cross the road!
I'll be driving, and come up on a bunch of turkeys. The ones in the road...RUN BACK THE WAY THEY CAME!!! I always picture the lead turkey saying "Ok, The coast is clear. Let's move it on out. SINGLE FILE NOW! SINGLE FILE!!!!!" The first 2-3 slow walk their way halfway into the lane, a car comes and "RETREAT!!!!!!!!!!!". Once you go on by, they stand there forever, waiting to go again! I'm amazed they don't just set up camp, and live in the ditch
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Man a black and tan is an amazing animal... my 1st dog was a black and tan I grew up with that dog... got that dog when I was 6 she died 2 years ago... you mentioning black and tans brings back memories lol...
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Agreed imo the best dog never to win Westminster BIS
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The only black and tan I know is a Bass poured on top of a Guinness.
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Mmmmmmm.....Black & Tans, the drink, not the dog. Although, if it runs, walks, crawls, slithers, swims, or flies, it dies, I'll kill it, and I'll eat it!
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[QUOTE=Dogmatic;3665 Although, if it runs, walks, crawls, slithers, swims, or flies, it dies, I'll kill it, and I'll eat it![/QUOTE]
someone needs to go check on dmatic something about this post gives me the feeling he has met with foul play
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