Re: Have you killed a living animal?
Guilty to killing flies and wasps. Ugh! but actually makes me a hypocrite as one who says they couldn't harm anything as they have just as much right to live as any other species.
Can't help it though, Flies are disgusting and wasps can hurt me,(as they often have) so no second chances if I spot them indoors.
I refuse to kill even a spider otherwise, though scared of them, especially those poor ones trapped in the bath. HWMO would happily just run the water and flush them down the plug hole but I won't hear of it. He has to use the humane spider catcher (a sliding lid contraption on a pole) and let them free outside.
If HWMO isn't around to use the spider catcher, I've even been known to hang loo paper over the edge of the bath so the spider can eventually climb out by itself, with me well out of their way.
I cannot help thinking back to when I was very little, watching my six cruel brothers and their friends setting fire to caterpillars on a rock. They would just laugh as I cried at what they were doing to those little creatures! They also used to catch butterflies and keep them in jars until they died. Children can be so cruel.