Oh man, this is unreal....

[Ed]

http://oldeenglish.org/puppy.html 

Personally, I don't think I could do it unless you put it in the context of the money being needed for something massively important, like medical treatment to save a child with leukemia, something like that.  Couldn't do it for personal gain; it would haunt me.  Interesting moral question though. 

Disturbing how low some of them would go - perhaps money really is the root of all evil? 

[Sunny]

I rather found the song quite entertaining, and there is a chic I think I could kill for about two pennies  but I definetly agree with ya blunt, no way could I ever kill a puppy,....................i think. LOL

That was quite amusing though, thanks for that this morning, needed it 

[Ed]

Can't believe that one guy who said he'd do it for five dollars and that woman that wouldn't kill a rat for under $50,000 - you wouldn't have to pay me a penny to kill a rat.  We were inundated with the damn things last year, all the neighbours had trouble with them, and we ended up with them under the floors, in the roof and in the wall cavities :wha?:  Drove us crazy trying to get rid of them

I set up these great big rat traps with big spikes in them - heard one go 'smack!' up in the roof, so I quickly got a pair of step ladders, got up there and, by the time I'd got to it, the bastard thing had wrestled its way out of the trap and left it behind all buckled and broken - couldn't fucking believe it   Just clumps of fur on the spikes, no blood or anything.  Must have been a mutant ninja rat or something....

[Sunny]

LMAO 

Though it is quite depressing to hear about those precious little things being hunted down. I was actually thinking, I would be more likely to kill a puppy before I could kill a rat. I am a HUGE rodent fan..........so your little tale, while funny it desturbs me 

I actually did a mad thing with my two very cute mice, I had one that wouldn't stay in the cage, still can't figure out how he did, and he kept escaping and leaving his brother quite lonely. So one night, in an another attempt to catch him here in the new house, he was hiding under the couch, so I got the cage that had bubba in it and set it a few feet away from the couch with the gate open. After about 5 mins. fred reluctantly made his way to the cage. Of course after shutting the gate and putting the cage back, I went to sleep, but not before making sure there was no way he could escape. Now I'll be if the next day he wasn't still in the cage. So feeling sorry for bubba and his lonliness and realizing I would never be able to trap fred and his free spirit, I decided to just leave the cage open all the time.

So now I have two cute little micies running freely in my house. Driving the man crazy, wants to set up traps and I really have a hard time with that. But yeah, that was probably not a good idea to just leave them free to chew up stuff. Guess I wasn't thinking of that at the time.

Ok. now that that turned into a crazy lenthy story, I apologize. 

[Neuromancer]

Mice running around my house?

I would not get traps...
I would get a cat, or a snake LOL

That will teach them....


However I dont have the movie time codec so I did not seethat.  (I need to find the alternate codec, so I dont need to install a whole other player...maybe next year)

Kill an animal?  I could do it for the right reason.  Just imagine one of em threatening your children.  I would tackle a pit bull to protect them.  Or step on a yorkie... or kick a cocker spaniel.. or

Hmm mauybe I am just sick in the head?

[Ed]

I've got no problem at all with pet rodents...cept maybe hamsters - I hate hamsters.  Rats, mice, etc., no problem at all with them, but their wild cousins are a real nuisance, and they're dangerous to have around loose.  Sad to say, they had to go.  

They were chewing through the wiring, the heating pipework, and the roof-felt.  Plus, sooner or later, they do make it into the living areas, and then they're into your food.  So apart from the risk of fires started by electrical faults, there's also the possibility of ceilings coming down because of leaking pipes, and the risk of one of the kids coming down with Weils disease.  Wild rodents are often carriers of the disease, which can be transmitted through their urine - and they urinate constantly, leaving a trail of it like a scent marker wherever they go.

So yeah, I don't knowingly kill anything I don't have to, but it was too dangerous having them around, sorry  

[Ed]

Mice running around my house?

I would not get traps...
I would get a cat, or a snake LOL

That will teach them....


However I dont have the movie time codec so I did not seethat.  (I need to find the alternate codec, so I dont need to install a whole other player...maybe next year)

Kill an animal?  I could do it for the right reason.  Just imagine one of em threatening your children.  I would tackle a pit bull to protect them.  Or step on a yorkie... or kick a cocker spaniel.. or

Hmm mauybe I am just sick in the head?

The film was about asking different people how much money it would take to kill a puppy with their bare hands - the only motivation being money.  For the right reason I could do it, but I don't think I could live with my conscience if it was just about money even a lot of money.

[speyeder]

If you catch me when I am angry I would cut my way through a pack of baby seals with a butter knife because they "got in the way". I have control of my temper to a point, but when pushed past it, I scare myself. The military tapped into some primitive stuff with their training and meddling, and also gave us a little forging and discipline with which to manage it. Anytime I have harmed anyone or anything I felt bad about it later, though. Too bad they didn't do some conscience-elimination conditioning on us too. 

[Ed]

It takes a lot to make me lose my temper - it maybe happens once or twice a decade, and usually it's 'things' that suffer, rather than people or animals.  I've punched holes in doors and lobbed hammers (one quite spectacularly), but in the last twenty years I've only ever lost my rag enough with one person to hit them.   And boy did that feel good