Off-Topic Share your animal friends!

Funny story about a large spider. When I first went to the Philippines to meet my wife's family, I went into the bathroom to relieve myself and there on the wall JUST behind the toilet was the biggest spider I have seen in my life. Now, I had already been told that they did not harm spiders as they were a useful part of nature and good natural insect control. Being a new guest I felt it would be rude to harm the thing but I was none too happy about how close it was going to be to a very important personal part of my anatomy. So I had a brief conversation with the thing about bathroom etiquette and the likelihood of his drastic demise if he should so much as flinch before I finished my business. He appeared to understand and we were both relieved when I finished and left the room.

Good thing I was not armed.

Bill
 
Animals often seem to have uncanny understanding. I remember a video someone posted to the weather network website a while back of a momma bear and two cubs in his back yard. He went out to the back deck and in a nonthreatening nonchalant voice said something like "okay it's time for you to go now." And they looked at him, then casually started walking away. He called back "I hope you enjoyed my yard". And they looked back, almost as if nodding, and then continued to saunter off past the tree line.
 
We’re touching on a tricky part of my belief.
God created it, it’s not up to me to kill it. My wife’s culture believes animals are reincarnation of brothers & sisters. She’s Christian, but…
It also amazes me the, intricate world where everything has purpose. Life can be so tiny or huge..it’s still life and has a community.
What to do, when she discovers the smallest ants ever in, of all places, our stove!?
There has to be a line in the sand. I can catch and release a spider, but ants?
It‘s not a comfortable solution, but the traps are in place.
Please don’t think I’m a hippie or a psycho (we’ll kind of, but not a dangerous one)
 
GmpaJim GmpaJim - not at all on the hippie or psycho thing. I hope questions like this are things we keep in mind every day of our lives. That process shapes our morality and should make us better people. I grew up on farms, so many of the animals I encountered were destined to die by our hands. BUT- until that moment came, we spent our time taking care of them. Not just that food and water was available- checking them daily by walking the animals looking for signs of injury or illness, checking fence, picking up any debris that could gouge feet, keeping weeds in pastures low to prevent pink eye. Their health and well being was our responsibility and, when the time came, the cleanest and most painless death we could manage. We gave thanks for their sacrifice.

Everything dies, everything lives- the quality of each is important.

I hunted groundhogs for instances, they preyed on our food and undermined structures with their digging. I would also hit the brakes and swerve to avoid them on the road. 1) Death by crushing must be horrific and 2) THAT specific groundhog may not have been troubling anyone.

Outside the home, the only spider I kill in Black Widows as we are in a neighborhood and plenty of kids that could get bit. Inside the home, I carry them outside or leave them alone. These choices make us human. ;)
Bill
 
GmpaJim said:
We’re touching on a tricky part of my belief.
God created it, it’s not up to me to kill it. My wife’s culture believes animals are reincarnation of brothers & sisters. She’s Christian, but…
It also amazes me the, intricate world where everything has purpose. Life can be so tiny or huge..it’s still life and has a community.
What to do, when she discovers the smallest ants ever in, of all places, our stove!?
There has to be a line in the sand. I can catch and release a spider, but ants?
It‘s not a comfortable solution, but the traps are in place.
Please don’t think I’m a hippie or a psycho (we’ll kind of, but not a dangerous one)
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Genesis 9:3

Genesis 1:29-30

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⬆️ Well put. My grandparents raised chickens, lots of chickens, & turkeys for the holidays.
I’m a carnivore, which in a debate makes me a hypocrite.
And I mention the Lord. He gave us animals for food, work & clothes. Humans took it from there and made them…human.
I didn’t mean to infer a religious objection. More an unwillingness toward indiscriminate killing.
 
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GmpaJim said:
⬆️ Well put. My grandparents raised chickens, lots of chickens, & turkeys for the holidays.
I’m a carnivore, which in a debate makes me a hypocrite.
And I mention the Lord. He gave us animals for food, work & clothes. Humans took it from there and made them…human.
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I don't think it makes you hypocrite at all. This world and its fruits were made for us.

I'm a carnivore too. I've been eating 95% animal products for the last six years. Never felt healthier&happier in my life. And i've appreciated animals all my life.

Most modern, western people seem to be disconnected from nature (and god) and have fallen to the lies our enemies perpetuate, that eating animals is unhealthy and bad for nature. Both claims are untrue, of course.
 
I guaranteed it was 1st degree murder (I go looking for them throughout the house every night, so I premeditated his death, whether he would have made it easier for me by landing there or not).
 
:) Recently I have been getting "buzzed" by red wasps while in my basement. I finally found them, they were coming in through a small mortar joint hole in the brick under a door stoop and had built a nest behind the insulation on the band. Tricky for sure. It is no longer an issue and the carnage has been swept up :)

I also removed all that batting and will be doing foam board insulation as an upgrade.

Ticks- if possible, free range chickens are devastating on tick populations around a home/yard.

Bill
 
WW- I live around Roanoke Virginia- are you located anywhere near abouts? I like opossums well enough not to hurt them but not a favorite animal of mine. I am partial to things I can eat and 'coons.
Bill
 
lmalterna said:
WW- I live around Roanoke Virginia- are you located anywhere near abouts? I like opossums well enough not to hurt them but not a favorite animal of mine. I am partial to things I can eat and 'coons.
Bill
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Unfortunately no, I live in Western New York. About 45 minutes east of Buffalo. Mostly cows, salt mines and cornfields.
 
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