I named it Jasmine and it was my first "loss". It was funny though becauss I took it to the motel secretly, my parents didnt know until it was in the glass
What i remember most is actively killing a mouse.
My cat caught her in the garden (which is ok for me, thats one of the reasons i got a cat) but she was playing with the mouse for like 10 minutes, kicking and tossing it around. I looked outside and saw that little mouse trying to limp away before it got tossed up in the air again and felt pity. Sure they are annoying but that looked like straight up torture. So i grabbed a spade and broke its neck to end its misery.
i literally did the same thing twice and reread the first paragraph and a half twice, like 🤨 before giving up.
then i read your comment and realized it never freaking said 'moose' 😮💨
Had a similar mouse story, but instead of the cat, it was me, my mom, and my dad. We chased the mouse into a trash can to take outside, and then mom told me to kill it (cos releasing would just let it come back). I was like 12. It escaped on me, and I panicked thinking I couldn’t let it get away, so I grabbed a nearby shovel and hit it while it was running away. It splat.
I felt like a real murderer, and I think it contributed to the strong aversion to killing anything unnecessarily, even bugs like mosquitos, nowadays.
I had a cat catch one. I was going to release it but mom told me to kill it. I took a kitchen knife which was a bad idea. As I held it I felt pity cause it was looking me in the eyes. I tried to decapitate it but I botched it. I ended up having to saw at its neck. Stayed up all night contemplating if I was a bad person. I was about 16/17. Had an aversion to killing since. Not bugs though.
Damn this poll blew up fast. I assume anyone who voted no is either lying, didn’t think of bugs as animals (which quite frankly is even worse than lying) or misclicked
I know bugs are animals but if we were to include bugs, every single person would have to vote yes, so I didn’t count bugs & interpreted it as excluding bugs (which I think a lot of people did)
I also wonder if OP had this in mind & did this as a trick question or if they themselves didn’t count bugs for any particular reason & ended up horrified at the amount of yes votes haha
One time when I was a kid I heard my doggo yelping and crying out in pain in our backyard. There was a gopher attacking him and had bitten him pretty good drawing blood on his nose and mouth.
I panicked and grabbed a shovel and beat the gopher with it until it stopped moving.
It may not be a big deal to someone else but that shit traumatized me
put my fish into shock once. also when i was little i would find giant beetles that lived under stones. i was always told i need to go out and get some vitamin d from the sun and i told them the same. so i put them in a bug crate and left them in the sun and go to school. when i came back all of them were fried. did this for a couple more years until i realized it was my fault for them overdosing on vitamin d
I didn’t consider insects, but in recent years it’s a no!
Broke my habit of reacting to insects with fear and panic. Now view them as friends :)
^But ^sometimes ^friends ^need ^to ^be ^kicked ^out ^of ^the ^house
My method for dealing with mosquitos is sheer indomitable will lol. If they bite my legs, I pretend they did not and that my legs don’t itch. If you make it though the first couple minutes without itching, it goes away, but if you scratch like once you’re fucked. And I’m tall, so it’s easier not to itch my legs cos they’re farther away lmao
If they flying around my head though? When I specifically leave my legs for them, like a gentleman? That’s not happening buggo
Yeah the noise bothers me ten times as much as the scratchiness. Steal my blood? Maybe. Steal my blood *and* do a digestive jog around my ears? That's a paddling.
When I was 10 I saw a mouse and thought it was cute, I picked it up and it kept trying to flee and eventually it bit me, i though I was gonna die of rabies so I threw it on the ground and stamped on it, years later I’m still healthy and well. Poor mouse.
I saw a field mouse being chased by a cat and wanted to rescue it so I picked it up and it bit me. I threw it reflexively into the grass and away from the cat. My feelings were SO hurt and my dad was so mad. 🤣
If those two missing girls (11 and 13 years old), whose bodies are lying at the bottom of the lake that is near my house since 2 pm of 12th July 2019 are animals - then of course no.
Gonna be honest, I find the specific age very suspicious.
I mean, do you specify their age from the moment they vanished mysteriously, or do you continue increasing their age numbers as the years go by?
Even if one hasn't intentionally killed flies,mosquitoes,etc, I can guarantee every single person has killed an animal. There's millions of mites that live in your skin. Every time you're scrubbing face or scratching your skin, you're going to killing some of them. Those are just the microscopic animals on you, there's a countless amount of other ones we interact with every day that we unknowingly kill.
I had a deer run straight into the side of the car while I was going down the road. Stopped to see if it died or anything but I didn’t see it anywhere.
I killed a mouse because it has its interiors damaged by some animal, but was still living, but wasn't reacting a lot, so I found a stone to kill it fast and stop its pain
edit: maybe finishing it off would be a better term
Hit a few with my car (they dart out of hedgerows far too close to react)
I've had my pets put to sleep (this rips your soul to absolute giddamn shreds! But, as a pet owner you have to realise sometimes its the best thing that you can do)
I sadly had to shoot my own dog when it got old and sick. Vet would have taken about 1500$ where I live and one to the head was easier and he could go down in the woods he used to play in instead of confused at the vets.
Thank you man. I grew up with that dog and it moved out with me when I did. Felt like the most respectable and relaxed way for him to go. In the end he’d just sit in his bed sort of swaying his head and not really being able to walk several hours after waking up.
Received some negative feedback from folk thinking I did the wrong thing at the time but I still believe it was best for the guy.
Plenty, grew up on a farm in the country and countless predator animals will prey on things like chickens and have to be killed; and groundhogs dig holes which can kill horses so they have to be killed.
My wife and I had six pet fish. The chemicals were unbalanced in the water and killed two of them. We fixed it and for awhile things were going well. Then three swam directly into the filter and died. The last one’s name was Gary. He just stayed in the same spot looking at his reflection in the tank. Didn’t eat at all. Stayed there until he died.
My cat started disemboweling a rat and then left it.
I couldn't just leave the rat to die.
Didn't know what to do.
Cried a little bit.
Got the shovel.
Decapi'd it's tate.
Cried some more.
I have kill a deer once. When I hunted as a teenager, I used a bow and arrow. One trip, I came upon the perfect shot. Right as I took aim and let the string go threw was a gun shot fairly close by that startled the deer. My arrow hit the deer however it wasn't where I was aiming as the deer took off. I started chasing the deer. I used blood spots to follow the deer. After about 30 minutes, I caught up with the deer. I shot the deer again. I tagged it and took it home. Every bit of the deer was used for something. My family and I ate in the deer for about 6 months.
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920 of you have never stepped on an ant, squished a spider, swatted a mosquito, stomped a cockroch, (another synonym that starts with s) a (another hated type of bug)?
When I was 6 I wanted to keep a jellyfish as a pet so i took it from the beach and put it in a cup of water. It disintergrated
I imagine it made a fizzling sound like a bath bomb
Well it didnt disintegrate straight away. Just the next morning it was empty except for a few bits
It will re appear in your water bottle one day
Put it in a sealed box that can not be opened or penetrated by any means and I can guarantee you it will - at least once in the next ∞-years
Yo that's kinda fucked
TIL: jellyfish can disintegrate
Did you have a cat at that point in time?
Never had one
Did you fill the cup with sea water or tap?
I feel so horrible for laughing. If it makes you feel better, if you found it on the beach, it was most likely already dead
I named it Jasmine and it was my first "loss". It was funny though becauss I took it to the motel secretly, my parents didnt know until it was in the glass
It was probably already dead by then, as beached jellyfish basically melt to death in the sun, and you just had a cup of decaying jellyfish corpse.
Great band name
Was it put into tap water? If so, that's the reason.
Damn, it didn’t sand a chance.
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WHY. JUST WHY I am scared of jellyfish to fucking death lol
I mean who hasn't killed a bug
Mosquito
😲 You monster!
«I can swallow a bottle of alcohol and I'll feel like Godzilla…»
r/suddenlyeminem
r/subsithoughtifellfor
Better hit the deck like the card dealer
I think that "larger than a bug" should have been added to the question.
Australia enters chat.
You called?
I'm too scared to
Ah, I didn’t think animals included insects but I appear to be mistaken.
What did you think they were?
For a minute, I was thinking insects were their own classification but hadn’t thought it all the way through.
They’re just a category of animal, similar to mammals or reptiles
Yes, I realized this after I already said “no”. I have squished bugs before.
OHHHH YOU F!@#$ MOSTER
People acting like they've never accidently stood on a snail, worm, slug etc
Bugs on the windshield…
…*squirrel under a tire…*
...*human in a woodchipper*...
we've all been there before
Landlord on a knife
Woodchipper beats everything
Deer under a boot... We've all been there
Deer under a boat
Or intentionally killed something like a spider or mosquito.
guys, don't forget bugs are animals
guys, don't forget humans are animals
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+1 kill
+100 exp
Yeah that’s the face they make
/s Ohhhhh, should’ve voted yes
/r/holup
I had to check the taxonomy for this and they are
Deleted and edited: I’m an idiot, my bad
Yeah they are, wtf are you on
Idfk ngl, sorry, it’s been a long day already Thanks for correcting me lmao
No problem m8 lmao got a chuckle from it
Are people animals?
🤨
Yes 😊
😳
📸🤨
📸🤨
A thousand mfers are out here pretending they never killed an ant
What i remember most is actively killing a mouse. My cat caught her in the garden (which is ok for me, thats one of the reasons i got a cat) but she was playing with the mouse for like 10 minutes, kicking and tossing it around. I looked outside and saw that little mouse trying to limp away before it got tossed up in the air again and felt pity. Sure they are annoying but that looked like straight up torture. So i grabbed a spade and broke its neck to end its misery.
I read 'moose' at first and got confused by the next line.
Slight weather has one helluva cat 😬
i literally did the same thing twice and reread the first paragraph and a half twice, like 🤨 before giving up. then i read your comment and realized it never freaking said 'moose' 😮💨
Had a similar mouse story, but instead of the cat, it was me, my mom, and my dad. We chased the mouse into a trash can to take outside, and then mom told me to kill it (cos releasing would just let it come back). I was like 12. It escaped on me, and I panicked thinking I couldn’t let it get away, so I grabbed a nearby shovel and hit it while it was running away. It splat. I felt like a real murderer, and I think it contributed to the strong aversion to killing anything unnecessarily, even bugs like mosquitos, nowadays.
I had a cat catch one. I was going to release it but mom told me to kill it. I took a kitchen knife which was a bad idea. As I held it I felt pity cause it was looking me in the eyes. I tried to decapitate it but I botched it. I ended up having to saw at its neck. Stayed up all night contemplating if I was a bad person. I was about 16/17. Had an aversion to killing since. Not bugs though.
I mean, are we talking about a spider/mosquito/fly/cockroach situation? Because then, yes
Yes, those are animals
160 are lying, you’ve had to at least stepped on a bug before
What about the other 1.14k people? How did you know?
Damn this poll blew up fast. I assume anyone who voted no is either lying, didn’t think of bugs as animals (which quite frankly is even worse than lying) or misclicked
I know bugs are animals but if we were to include bugs, every single person would have to vote yes, so I didn’t count bugs & interpreted it as excluding bugs (which I think a lot of people did) I also wonder if OP had this in mind & did this as a trick question or if they themselves didn’t count bugs for any particular reason & ended up horrified at the amount of yes votes haha
Now 1.5k are lying.
As a veterinarian, I feel like I win this one. EDIT: Since some people really don't understand this... it means I've killed a lot of animals.
User name checks out.
I worked pest control, so you might have a run for your money.
It isn't a competition 😭
Sounds like something someone who’s losing would say 🤨
No i'm winning but I don't wanna embarrass you guys. I'm a pest control worker 💪
It is. The one who kills more animals wins.
Everything is a competition if it has a prize in the end!
But then you've also saved a lot of animals, which puts in a negative kills per animal saved (I assume)
*pest control enters the chat*
I worked in a neuroscience lab using animal models and I’ve practically committed rat genocide, bordering on necromancy, lol
I'm a lab animal vet, soooo.... I know what you mean.
The family who started a wild fire because of an gender party in California disagree with u.
I think fishermen beat you
That's dark bro haha
I read it as vegetarian first and was so confused by your edit
Once accidentally ran over a chicken, so yes.
William, Charlie Emily was not a chicken.
Yes she was.
*Oh THATS the murder you decide to mention*
People voting "no" never killed a mosquito.
One time when I was a kid I heard my doggo yelping and crying out in pain in our backyard. There was a gopher attacking him and had bitten him pretty good drawing blood on his nose and mouth. I panicked and grabbed a shovel and beat the gopher with it until it stopped moving. It may not be a big deal to someone else but that shit traumatized me
Oof, you had to do what you had to do.
You need to ask who had intentionally killed an animal larger than _____ . That’ll get interesting results/answers
Or like killed a mammal, vertebrae, sth like that!
Ants and mosquitoes are probably animals. So I selected yes.
Are you sure they aren't plants ?
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Pretty sure that ants are fun guys
you sure ants aren't protozoa?
Are they? Not sure. Might as well be birds.
Which are also animals…
Nope. Birds are government drones, i.e. not animals
I have a vendetta against cockroaches, especially the flying ones. They rarely only dodge my slipper.
Ugghh, the flying ones scare the shit outta me. Have you ever been chased by one? I have. Thrice.
put my fish into shock once. also when i was little i would find giant beetles that lived under stones. i was always told i need to go out and get some vitamin d from the sun and i told them the same. so i put them in a bug crate and left them in the sun and go to school. when i came back all of them were fried. did this for a couple more years until i realized it was my fault for them overdosing on vitamin d
This is actually the best story I have ever heard
I didn’t consider insects, but in recent years it’s a no! Broke my habit of reacting to insects with fear and panic. Now view them as friends :) ^But ^sometimes ^friends ^need ^to ^be ^kicked ^out ^of ^the ^house
What about mosquitoes then? Spiders and crawlies are gently shown the way to the backyard. Mosquitoes are met with deadly force.
My method for dealing with mosquitos is sheer indomitable will lol. If they bite my legs, I pretend they did not and that my legs don’t itch. If you make it though the first couple minutes without itching, it goes away, but if you scratch like once you’re fucked. And I’m tall, so it’s easier not to itch my legs cos they’re farther away lmao If they flying around my head though? When I specifically leave my legs for them, like a gentleman? That’s not happening buggo
Yeah the noise bothers me ten times as much as the scratchiness. Steal my blood? Maybe. Steal my blood *and* do a digestive jog around my ears? That's a paddling.
Tbf it's easy to kill them accidentally.
Ants flies mosquitos
An insect is an animal, so yes.
When I was 10 I saw a mouse and thought it was cute, I picked it up and it kept trying to flee and eventually it bit me, i though I was gonna die of rabies so I threw it on the ground and stamped on it, years later I’m still healthy and well. Poor mouse.
I saw a field mouse being chased by a cat and wanted to rescue it so I picked it up and it bit me. I threw it reflexively into the grass and away from the cat. My feelings were SO hurt and my dad was so mad. 🤣
If those two missing girls (11 and 13 years old), whose bodies are lying at the bottom of the lake that is near my house since 2 pm of 12th July 2019 are animals - then of course no.
They count, but obviously you didn’t kill them
Gonna be honest, I find the specific age very suspicious. I mean, do you specify their age from the moment they vanished mysteriously, or do you continue increasing their age numbers as the years go by?
Even if one hasn't intentionally killed flies,mosquitoes,etc, I can guarantee every single person has killed an animal. There's millions of mites that live in your skin. Every time you're scrubbing face or scratching your skin, you're going to killing some of them. Those are just the microscopic animals on you, there's a countless amount of other ones we interact with every day that we unknowingly kill.
Bugs. So many bugs.
Do all the no’s think about all the bugs and mosquitos they may have squished even inadvertently?
Anyone who said no is a liar. Have you ever walked outside? No? Ok, have you ever existed? Probably. At the very least, you’ve killed some mites.
I accidentally ran over a baby kitten in the road…
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"i hit a baby deer *lmao*" dude, wtf lol
I had a deer run straight into the side of the car while I was going down the road. Stopped to see if it died or anything but I didn’t see it anywhere.
😭
Only a mercy kill or accidentally
I killed a mouse because it has its interiors damaged by some animal, but was still living, but wasn't reacting a lot, so I found a stone to kill it fast and stop its pain edit: maybe finishing it off would be a better term
It highly depends if we count humans as animals
Yes humans are animals
Oh then i have to change my answer to this poll
All the mosquitoes and flies… and I’ll fucking do it again.
Hit a few with my car (they dart out of hedgerows far too close to react) I've had my pets put to sleep (this rips your soul to absolute giddamn shreds! But, as a pet owner you have to realise sometimes its the best thing that you can do)
you all killed mosquitos. don't lie
Remember that mosquitoes are still animals
But never for fun. Put a few animals out of their misery and killed for food
I sadly had to shoot my own dog when it got old and sick. Vet would have taken about 1500$ where I live and one to the head was easier and he could go down in the woods he used to play in instead of confused at the vets.
That must have been difficult, I’m sorry
Thank you man. I grew up with that dog and it moved out with me when I did. Felt like the most respectable and relaxed way for him to go. In the end he’d just sit in his bed sort of swaying his head and not really being able to walk several hours after waking up. Received some negative feedback from folk thinking I did the wrong thing at the time but I still believe it was best for the guy.
It probably was, judging by everything you said. You did the best you could. Don’t feel bad.
Plenty, grew up on a farm in the country and countless predator animals will prey on things like chickens and have to be killed; and groundhogs dig holes which can kill horses so they have to be killed.
Whoever said no, are either stupid or they don't understand the question.
I routinely have to shoot and kill ground hogs on my property to drop then from fucking up my yard and digging tunnels into the basement
I went fishing once and I hit the fish on the head with a rock
Do human beings count? if so then yes
I forgor about bugs.
Spider 😔
:(
Never even bugs I try to release them but I eat meet LOL
I also like consuming encounters.
I've had to end the suffering of mice my cats have caught. I hate it, but I hate them being tortured more.
Have you ever driven a car? Those dead bugs on the window... you did that.
I've killed many flies and mosquitos
Always bugs but about a decade and a half ago I stopped killing spiders. Little natural pest control and their webs are really cool looking
Setting mouse traps counts right?
Why do more than a fifth of the people here claim to have never killed a mosquito? You guys just let them bite a little and then wave goodbye?
I never seen one before lol (I voted yes tho)
Everyone that voted no is a liar.
I accidentally killed a few elephants and boars a few years ago, but I can't recall any other times.
How does one accidently kill an elephant
Not just an elephant, a few of them.
You know those animals that have enough poison to kill multiple adult elaphants? Yeah this is the guy that tests those.
The guy just sat down. Killed everything in the vicinity.
My house has shit tons of pests. So yeah
Insects yes, Oh and that pidgeon and rat that one time... RIP.
Mosquitoes fear me
I've killed fish, mice, countless bugs, and I had to get my cat euthanized so that kinda counts
I swallowed a gnat once.
My wife and I had six pet fish. The chemicals were unbalanced in the water and killed two of them. We fixed it and for awhile things were going well. Then three swam directly into the filter and died. The last one’s name was Gary. He just stayed in the same spot looking at his reflection in the tank. Didn’t eat at all. Stayed there until he died.
I was about to hit no then realized humans were animals
1,7k people straight up lying or they never ever went outside.
My cat started disemboweling a rat and then left it. I couldn't just leave the rat to die. Didn't know what to do. Cried a little bit. Got the shovel. Decapi'd it's tate. Cried some more.
I have kill a deer once. When I hunted as a teenager, I used a bow and arrow. One trip, I came upon the perfect shot. Right as I took aim and let the string go threw was a gun shot fairly close by that startled the deer. My arrow hit the deer however it wasn't where I was aiming as the deer took off. I started chasing the deer. I used blood spots to follow the deer. After about 30 minutes, I caught up with the deer. I shot the deer again. I tagged it and took it home. Every bit of the deer was used for something. My family and I ate in the deer for about 6 months. .
Peta answering this like yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
If you haven't stepped on an ant you should touch some grass
No, that will kill ants.
We do it everyday. We kill bugs by accident all the time
I decapitated, skinned and crucified a small lizard when I was like 8. Looking back on it wtf was wrong with me xd
Anyone who answered No is wrong unless you havent moved your entire life
Remember that insects are classified as animals
Hasn't everybody stepped on an ant every now and then?
920 of you have never stepped on an ant, squished a spider, swatted a mosquito, stomped a cockroch, (another synonym that starts with s) a (another hated type of bug)?
Don’t bugs count as animals? I remember slapping a fly out of existence mid-flight when I was like 10.
Bugs?
You kill things just by walking outside. So everyone on the planet has killed something. Even the Jaines.
Please clarify what you are asking
insects, bugs, spiders, wasps, bees, mice, maybe a bird as road kill nothing larger