Recent content by HenryC

Because these people are stupid pieces of crap. Like this fellow: So this guy deliberately waits for them to die... for a couple of days.

I clicked on that Amazon link earlier in the thread, clicked one of the products. Saw this: Couple of those comments just reaffirms what I'm saying. My favourite is the "mess free" one, haha. Like sticking a furry mammal on a sheet of super glue isn't messy, as well as what they go through...

Except that a cat can't comprehend what suffering is, so has no qualms about doing it. They don't know any better. Whereas people deliberately place a trap that should by all means, be outlawed in a civilized society, because is especially notorious for its level of unnecessary cruelty. Quite...

Why is it "great" to watch?

In other words, "I am too lazy to block some holes".

Such a great quote! I'd "like" this post if I could.

I've always wondered why people do such things. Is it because they intensely hate the animal in question, or they are simply overcompensating for something? Knowing that they can hold such power over another animal and most likely get away with it.

Yeah but this was a fully grown adult doing it. You can chalk it up to young children doing it as a matter of curiosity or not really understanding what they are doing. Besides, a fly can't scream so there isn't much emotional baggage.

I don't accept ignorance on that level. You would expect someone with internet access to know better than, say, someone living in the 1700s.

Decades of scientific research says you're wrong. They even have a "mouse grimace pain scale". I thought you said "human" qualities don't exist with them? How can you possibly say that's not feelings when if a dog eventually gets beaten up frequently, it will be traumatised to the point...

Hey, that's fine. But please don't pretend killing something because you have to is the same thing as deliberately torturing it for entertainment. I agree, relocation is stupid but only if you do it in a big city where there's no nature reserves or enough natural predators.

This post answers my question, thank you. If you'd read the post, you'd realise I have no problem killing animals. It's the way in which he did it that's questionable. Your statement here makes no sense, because you are implying that the choice is slowly boiling a trapped mammal alive or...

What valid points? He makes comparisons that are irrelevant. How is swatting a mosquito the same as slowly torturing a fully conscious mammal to death for funsies?

Are you deliberately being obtuse?

How does one differentiate between killing an animal legitimately, and flat out animal cruelty? Sometimes there's a fine line there, but I realise that such a line is subjective. A recent thread on catching mice reminded me of someone I knew in college. He would brag to me (and other people)...