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My husband told me that he killed a dog in the middle east. I forget where he was exactally. He said it was on the runway {Alright, just chase it off}, but it kept comming back. Someone made the decision that it was rabid {I don't know why they made that diagnosis or if it even was correct}, so they were told to kill it. They could not shoot it {which would have been too humane.... stare }. So they ran it down with the jeep and threw the door open in to it. How lovely... He said they killed it right then, but he might have just been saying that so I didn't murder him.

I do not like the thought of killing animals just to kill. If you are hunting and are going to eat whatever you shoot then that is alright with me. If an animal is suffering from a fatal injury or rabies, then okay. But some ways are just sick. Like the way above. That really hurt my feelings. Also his family is pretty sick. His sister was talking about her boyfriend hitting an already dead groundhog, just because they could. It ended up getting kicked up at the person behind them and hit their windshield. Lucky for them, they knew the person behind them, but how sick! I know it is dead, but that is just disrepectful.

What does your religion say about killing animals? Your morals?

Do you believe that killing is humane? Any form of killing, like shooting, decapitating, et cetera.

Why do you think people have no respect for animals?

My religion doesn't condone nor condemn. We are free to act according to how our conscience dictates. So if we don't want to kill animals, we don't have to, and vice versa.

My morals, I am against killing for sport, as long as you use all parts of the animal then fine. But don't kill a deer for it's antlers and leave the rest for spoil.


It's like my husband said, there is no humane way to kill any thing. To me, the most humane way to kill, is to make as quick and painless as possible. Don't mame the animal and watch it suffer. That's cruel. And if the animal is suffereing, like a dog that is suffering from terminal cancer and is in great pain, I think the most humane thing to do is to put it to sleep that way it is no longer suffering. Keeping the dog alive and shoving pill after pill down its throat is just as cruel as maming an animal and watching it die slowly.


I can't honestly say for sure. There are those who don't believe animals have feelings. Others view that it gives them power to beat on a helpless animal. Some just like to be mean. I honestly cannot say. People like that disgust me. I hate to see any living thing suffer and it gets under my skin when people are deliberately cruel.

I'm grateful to see that I'm not the only one who holds these opinions, especially about animal testing. 3nodding They're used because they're cheap and can't defend themselves, not because they have a striking relevance to us physiologically. I too avoid cosmetic products that have been tested on animals.

Nah, I've never had to take vitamins. I'm careful to make sure I get a well-rounded diet so that I don't lack any essential nutrients or get too much. Iron is a common problem with a lot of vegetarians, particularly new ones. It's pretty easy to get through grains (cereal and oatmeal are GREAT for this) or pasta. I'm a regular blood donor and haven't had an issue with iron. Vegetarianism is not for everyone, so that's why I understand that some people prefer that meat be in their diets. Not eating meat made me feel a lot better (physically), so that's why I stuck with it.

What do you mean by "killing animals"? I mean, do you mean all animals, or just those animals in which aren't human? Because it's natural for species to fight against another species (we call it the Predator-Prey Effect or [in some instants] parasitism).

For example:
The wolf eats the rabbit for food.
The tick sucks the human's blood for food.
The human hunts the deer for food and entertainment.

Entertainment is a personality requirement that specific species, like humans and dolphins, need for social and mental health. This is why killing animals for entertainment can be a good thing.

Though, I don't agree with killing any animal unless we are required to. Now, with your story of your Husband in a middle-eastern country killing a dog, perhaps they didn't have a gun and the dog really was rabid? Maybe the canine left them no chose.

The only time I justify killing ANY animal (humans included) is for two things:
:- Food
:- Self Defense

My religion is one of respect, rather than reverence (unless the animal in question is a felid, lagomorph or canid).
Respecting an animal does not mean that I wont eat it, it merely means before I do so, I endevour to ensure that the animal was raised in a healthy environment, and was killed humanely. Then before I eat it, I thank the animal for it's sacrifice. If I didn't need to eat meat (for medical reasons), I wouldn't, even the meat I do eat is selectively chosen. I don't eat ovine, or caprine animals for example.


It depends on how quick the death is. If the animal undergoes undue suffering (such as when they don't stun the animal before slaughter) then that is not an appropriate slaughter method.
Hunting I have no problem with, as long as it is not recreational. If you're going to eat the animal you just shot humanely, and use it's pelt, then fine, you go right ahead. I do however have a problem when 'hunting' an animal involves a chained animal, a helicopter, or drowning it in a stream after you jumped on it from a tree. I love most of all the hunters who use bows, or throwing spears (and know how to use them well, might I add), because it gives the animal a fighting chance to escape.

Also if the animal is in a state of suffering that impairs it's quality of life, then euthanasia is an appropriate treatment. As long as the euthanasia is of a humane method, such as pentobarb, or captive bolt. Just mentioning that you cannot eat animals euthed with pentobarb, because, funnily enough, it will kill you too. It's killed lions in the past...due to human negligence regarding the source of meat more than anything else.


Alas, it seems to be the climate we live in. They've been told so many times that humans are superior to other animals and they think that superiority gives them the right to treat animals like unthinking, unfeeling objects. As soon as you start treating living beings as objects it's a slippery slope, after all, how high up the ladder is a baby compared to a dog, or cat?

They had a possum throwing competition at a rural school near where I live, and the community was in an uproar about it. The principal tried to defend the schools actions by saying that they were rural kids, who dealt with death, and threw slinks into trucks all the time. The difference he failed to see, is one is a necessity (not that I agree with that particular part of farming here now I know about the UK method), the other was a game. Making entertainment from the dead bodies of an animal is not cool. I would like to pose the question to him, what if it was a cat, or a dog? Just because the possum is a 'pest' species, does not mean that you can treat it's dead body with such malicious disrespect.

....sorry....I get all worked up about things like that.

Humans ARE animals, which is why the example works. And why? Have you ever spent an hour or two thinking why you think anything is right or wrong?

If you think about it, several animals kill for entertainment. Cats, for example, will kill a squirrel and let it rot at your doorstep. Why? Because cats have the same feeling of excitement that we do. It's like running in a race: your adrenaline is pumping, your competitive instincts emerge, and you have a feeling of excitement, a rush, if you will. That is, supposedly, what occurs during hunting. We hunt deer because we get adrenaline from "the chase", which is also why people murder other peoples. We want the feeling of excitement. It's completely instinctual to want that feeling.

I don't like to kill bugs, but a palmetto bug {it looks like a roach} ran in to our house the other day. I just about killed it because I do NOT like roaches. But it wasn't and it got flung back outside. There is currently a black widow in our laundry room. She lives in the exhaust fan for the dryer {we don't have a washer and dryer yet}. So I just take down her web. But I want to catch her and toss her outside. I do not want my daughter getting bit by her. I was talking about her with someone and they told me to get this wasp spray. I said "No." I'm not going to kill her just because she is alive. I will just relocate her. And the deer overpopulation was a problem in my hometown. I am okay with hunting to restore order. There were over 100 deer in 50 acres. That's a lot. And you had to question the health of that 50 acres. Becuase there are other creatures living there.
Animal testing is a no no still... They are not humans. And I believe I said in an earlier post that there are people willing to try the product for some payment.

That possum throwing thing just pissed me off. It is uncalled for. I was watching a documentary and the lady was in New Orleans. They were muskrat hunting because they had been reproducing a lot. So they shot them with a gun {okay} and the clean up crew came out with a pitch fork! What the hell! How disrespectful! I was mad. And the repoter left them like two seconds after that. She was upset. Even when my cats are playing with a dead animal I try to get it away from them. One, it's just sadistic. And two, I do not want them leaving it under something. So most of the time it ends up in the weeds nextdoor. My cat brought back a chipmunk the other day... Aren't they endangered? I don't see too many of them, but my cats obviously do... And the whole helicopter hunting and chaining an animal... Pisses me off. I hate Palin because she supports the helicopter hunting. How heartless is that. The poor animal runs till it is almost dead from exersion then you shoot it. It's terrified and half dead already from being chased...
But I have to throw in my hypocritical view of fur. I love to feel fur in the stores, but I will not buy it unless it is rabbit. Minx, never. I will pet the poor thing, but I will never buy it. My friend has a fox pelt and I often pet it. I don't know why they killed a fox, but I kind of feel like I am honoring its death by petting it. I'm weird. I know.