Fed a mouse to my spider! **VIDEO**

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oogabooga

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Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
Originally posted by: ifesfor
RaiderJ, you are just a cruel human being.

Shame on you.



You know that spiders eat mice and birds and little lizards in the wild, right?

thats out of your hands though. when you make an uncessary choice that causes suffering, your responsible. no one forced him. and so he's responsible for his direct actions that result in unecessary cruelty, not something to be proud of.

and i really wouldn't use that "it happens in the wild" arguement to justify anything. a great many cruelties occur in the wild. would allow u to justify most any kind of evil.

I was also verbally abusive to the mouse.

LOL RaiderJ :thumbsup: :beer:
 

0roo0roo

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Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
I suppose you don't really know and are grasping at straws since you don't really know how I feel about any of that, now do you... Nice assumption of my beliefs, and moronic conclusion that fits your argument based on that assumption.

its a reasonable assumption. either you're a sadistic cruel bastard that wouldn't care if i did basah puppy skulls in, or a vegan. based on your post i doubt you're either:p

I'm sure you eat things with less complex nervous systems and no brains, right?

i don't eat them alive.

Assume whatever you want, your arguments makes 0 sense.

Someone has to kill what you eat, the fact that you didn't do it, or witness it makes no difference to the animal. To quote, "when you make an uncessary choice that causes suffering, your responsible. no one forced him," you are making unneceary choices in eating meat. Did you really believe that when a tree falls in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, that it doesn't make a sound? OK... Back to reality...

You cannot justify the statements you have made in this thread with your lifestyle, so I guess your a hypocrit.

Edit: Worse than that, people are spelling it out to you, and you don't even care to listen. You just keep trying to justify yourself... :roll:

i was too kind perhaps when i assumed.

and zero sense? why don't zoo keepers just toss live deer or if thats too difficult live cows into lion cages? its "natural" and probably rather amusing for the lion eh? well... by your logic, obviously because the zookeepers are all vegans:p

u can shutup about not being able to justify statements when all you do is try to divert attention from your sh*tty arguements by nitpicking grammer on a net forum.


as for raider, the link between thumb rings and being an asshat has never been so clear. a little twit who thinks he's hardcore making small animals suffer for his amusement.
 

DurocShark

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.

Do you eat meat? Fish? Eggs?
Have you ever fumigated your home?
Allowed radiator coolant to splash on the ground?
Oil?
Worn leather?
Fur?
Used a natural sponge?
Kept an aquarium?
Dog?
Cat?
Ferret?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, your comments regarding providing a living creature with food are invalid.

Have a nice day!

 

ATLien247

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
and zero sense? why don't zoo keepers just toss live deer or if thats too difficult live cows into lion cages? its "natural" and probably rather amusing for the lion eh? well... by your logic, obviously because the zookeepers are all vegans:p

u can shutup about not being able to justify statements when all you do is try to divert attention from your sh*tty arguements by nitpicking grammer on a net forum.


as for raider, the link between thumb rings and being an asshat has never been so clear. a little twit who thinks he's hardcore making small animals suffer for his amusement.

Are you serious? There are numerous reasons why a zookeeper wouldn't feed live deer to a lion. The two most fundamental reasons being monetary cost and convenience, perhaps safety even. However, of those numerous reasons, I'm sure that cruelty to animals is absent from the list.

What's so different about feeding crickets to the spider as opposed to a mouse? Don't those poor, defenseless crickets have feelings too? Don't you care, you brute?
 

knyghtbyte

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i cant view the video!!!!...waaaa...it wants a network password or sumfin (might be my works computers system, will check again when im home)

i dont have a problem with feeding a mouse to a spider, my ball-less cat catches mice by the dozen and happily thwaps them around the garden for an hour or so, then brings them in the house still alive (but somewhat disorientated...lol) and they run behind the cooker, where they gets rather toasty, then scurry out to get away and get caught again by the cat and invariably lose their heads (or sometimes he eats the back end) and i find the rest left on the floor in the morning. So in comparison the spider is actually being rather sporting by paralyzing the mouse first with poison.....

altho i have to say (will post a pic if i ever get one) the mice do fight back...hehe, one sat on a springy bush in the back garden once and the cat just couldnt get near it cuz it wouldnt quite support his weight, and also sometimes when they are sitting on the lawn the mice sits up on his hind quarters and goes to bite my cats nose.....cracks me up that does.....

 

0roo0roo

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Sep 21, 2002
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Originally posted by: DurocShark
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.

Do you eat meat? Fish? Eggs?
Have you ever fumigated your home?
Allowed radiator coolant to splash on the ground?
Oil?
Worn leather?
Fur?
Used a natural sponge?
Kept an aquarium?
Dog?
Cat?
Ferret?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, your comments regarding providing a living creature with food are invalid.

Have a nice day!

if you agree that world war 2 had to be fought, you have no right to stand against the holocaust.:p
 

pookie69

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PHuck!

Did you hear that mouse squeek when the spider jumped it?! Damn - and the look on it's face as the spider was doing *something* to it

>>> poor mouse

>>> but that's nature for you

Nice video editing work BTW - good stuff - thanks for sharing! :thumbsup:
 

RaiderJ

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Apr 29, 2001
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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.

Do you eat meat? Fish? Eggs?
Have you ever fumigated your home?
Allowed radiator coolant to splash on the ground?
Oil?
Worn leather?
Fur?
Used a natural sponge?
Kept an aquarium?
Dog?
Cat?
Ferret?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, your comments regarding providing a living creature with food are invalid.

Have a nice day!

if you agree that world war 2 had to be fought, you have no right to stand against the holocaust.:p

1) You can't feed dead mice/crickets to a spider, they won't eat them. Gotta have some movement to trigger them.

2) You're (stupidly) opening up a whole other can of beans by talking about the holocaust. Please start your own thread. Actually, just PM yourself instead. No one cares.
 

0roo0roo

No Lifer
Sep 21, 2002
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well callous nitwits like you obviously don't care, there are plenty of us that do. i never said you shouldn't feed it crickets. as i said, you should do no more harm than necessary. and since you chose that pet and are responsible for it, you must give it live crickets as it will not eat otherwise.

its why i brought up my zoo example. lions do indeed eat dead meat. thats one good reason they don't bother feeding live animals to the lions, even if it would amuse the lions and or the zoo guests.

and the can of worms was a valid example.
 

Gothgar

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Sep 1, 2004
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Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.

Do you eat meat? Fish? Eggs?
Have you ever fumigated your home?
Allowed radiator coolant to splash on the ground?
Oil?
Worn leather?
Fur?
Used a natural sponge?
Kept an aquarium?
Dog?
Cat?
Ferret?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, your comments regarding providing a living creature with food are invalid.

Have a nice day!

if you agree that world war 2 had to be fought, you have no right to stand against the holocaust.:p

1) You can't feed dead mice/crickets to a spider, they won't eat them. Gotta have some movement to trigger them.

2) You're (stupidly) opening up a whole other can of beans by talking about the holocaust. Please start your own thread. Actually, just PM yourself instead. No one cares.

oroo, you need to just shut up, all I have seen is pwnage after pwnage of you, no one here agrees with your crappy philosophies, I don't know if you are a PETA member or something, but so you know, PETA is retarded

edit: furthermore, why is it okay to feed the spider live crickets but not live mice?
 

RaiderJ

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Apr 29, 2001
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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well callous nitwits like you obviously don't care, there are plenty of us that do. i never said you shouldn't feed it crickets. as i said, you should do no more harm than necessary. and since you chose that pet and are responsible for it, you must give it live crickets as it will not eat otherwise.

its why i brought up my zoo example. lions do indeed eat dead meat. thats one good reason they don't bother feeding live animals to the lions, even if it would amuse the lions and or the zoo guests.

and the can of worms was a valid example.

I figure 1 mouse = 8 crickets. So by feeding it a mouse, I've saved 8 crickets from harm. If math serves me correctly, 8>1. How many crickets do you think equal one mouse? Or do you have a number? Try this: how many human fetuses make up one cricket/mouse?
 

Slappy00

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Jun 17, 2002
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there was a really funny bit that dennis leary did in his "no cure for cancer" standup routine about "cute animals" and what we do with em as opposed to cows and the like.

oh well back to looking for azn pr0n
 

Phoenix86

Lifer
May 21, 2003
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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well callous nitwits like you obviously don't care, there are plenty of us that do. i never said you shouldn't feed it crickets. as i said, you should do no more harm than necessary. and since you chose that pet and are responsible for it, you must give it live crickets as it will not eat otherwise.

its why i brought up my zoo example. lions do indeed eat dead meat. thats one good reason they don't bother feeding live animals to the lions, even if it would amuse the lions and or the zoo guests.

and the can of worms was a valid example.

You keep bringing up a bunch of crap, like beating puppies and the holocaust, because you can't answer my simple question. How do you justify you eating meat when you could obviously to less harm then necessary by being a vegan?

u can shutup about not being able to justify statements when all you do is try to divert attention from your sh*tty arguements by nitpicking grammer on a net forum.
I'm not nitpicking grammer, I'm arguing your words against logic, which escapes you. Your the one diverting attention with your holocaust BS.

You are a hypocrit who expects others to do has you say, not as you do. Now, STFU.
 

CVSiN

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Jul 19, 2004
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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
more complex nervous system? larger brain?:p

when it all comes down to it, it was completely unecessary.

Would you rather have the spider starve?

- M4H


thats a false choice. he had a lesser food source and u know it.

I don't get what's the big deal. People kill mice and rats all the time. People even make a living killing mice and rats.

Woah woah woah....
so by that reasoning people should only eat plants? beccasue our food might suffer when killed?

Screw that give me the FVCKING COW alive ill fry that whole bitch up on the BBQ... you didnt grow up in the country I'd guess.. or your a little pansey ass Vegan homo...

PS you guys havent seen crap till you seen a Nile Monitor bash its live mouse side to side against the glass of the tank or the rock in its cage till the mouse's head hemmorages...
Or when my Burmese Python hits a RAT (10 inches 3 at a feeding) and makes its eyes pop out from the pressure...
nature hurts.... its natural even us Humans are an Apex predator we eat meat... we kill for food... how do you think that steak gets to the grocery store...
someone has to put a bullet through a cows brain and cut it into little bitty pieces...
GET OVER IT...

the reasoning behind and necessity of an action makes all the difference. people die violently all the time, in wars, on the street, whereever. mind me killing you because of your post?

 

BigJ

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Nov 18, 2001
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Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well callous nitwits like you obviously don't care, there are plenty of us that do. i never said you shouldn't feed it crickets. as i said, you should do no more harm than necessary. and since you chose that pet and are responsible for it, you must give it live crickets as it will not eat otherwise.

its why i brought up my zoo example. lions do indeed eat dead meat. thats one good reason they don't bother feeding live animals to the lions, even if it would amuse the lions and or the zoo guests.

and the can of worms was a valid example.

I figure 1 mouse = 8 crickets. So by feeding it a mouse, I've saved 8 crickets from harm. If math serves me correctly, 8>1. How many crickets do you think equal one mouse? Or do you have a number? Try this: how many human fetuses make up one cricket/mouse?

 

Phoenix86

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May 21, 2003
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This thread reminds me of that parent swapping show on FOX my wife likes. There was a vegan family from California and a crocodile farmer from Lousiana. There was a lot of conflict, as you can imagine. In the end the vegan mother ate gator after preaching about how cruel it is. The other mother was also preached to by the family and neighbors. They were telling her about how they catch and release everything, including flies. They were chastizing her for killing poisionous snakes, instead of releasing them in the swamps. When she asked them what they do with the black widows (common to CA), they said 'umm.... we kill them because they could hurt our kids' or something to the effect...

HAHAHAHA, such similar ownage to this thread....

0roo, just keep on preaching how others should "lessen suffering" while you choose not to.
 

BooGiMaN

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Jul 5, 2001
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Originally posted by: Phoenix86
This thread reminds me of that parent swapping show on FOX my wife likes. There was a vegan family from California and a crocodile farmer from Lousiana. There was a lot of conflict, as you can imagine. In the end the vegan mother ate gator after preaching about how cruel it is. The other mother was also preached to by the family and neighbors. They were telling her about how they catch and release everything, including flies. They were chastizing her for killing poisionous snakes, instead of releasing them in the swamps. When she asked them what they do with the black widows (common to CA), they said 'umm.... we kill them because they could hurt our kids' or something to the effect...

HAHAHAHA, such similar ownage to this thread....

0roo, just keep on preaching how others should "lessen suffering" while you choose not to.

i saw that show and that vegan lady and her familiy were a bunch of stupid morons...i did enjoy the lil cajun boy tellign her she was fired though :)
 

Phoenix86

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May 21, 2003
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Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
Originally posted by: Phoenix86
This thread reminds me of that parent swapping show on FOX my wife likes. There was a vegan family from California and a crocodile farmer from Lousiana. There was a lot of conflict, as you can imagine. In the end the vegan mother ate gator after preaching about how cruel it is. The other mother was also preached to by the family and neighbors. They were telling her about how they catch and release everything, including flies. They were chastizing her for killing poisionous snakes, instead of releasing them in the swamps. When she asked them what they do with the black widows (common to CA), they said 'umm.... we kill them because they could hurt our kids' or something to the effect...

HAHAHAHA, such similar ownage to this thread....

0roo, just keep on preaching how others should "lessen suffering" while you choose not to.

i saw that show and that vegan lady and her familiy were a bunch of stupid morons...i did enjoy the lil cajun boy tellign her she was fired though :)

"let me put it like this....

your FIRED!"

LMAO. Classic. I also like his response to eating "healty," something to the effect of 'the good lord will take me when it's time.' HAHAHA, STFU preaching b!tch, sucks to be owned by a kid on national T.V. huh?

"monkies" HAHAHAHA!!!
 

0roo0roo

No Lifer
Sep 21, 2002
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Originally posted by: Gothgar
Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.
PETA sanctioned blather.

Do you eat meat? Fish? Eggs?
Have you ever fumigated your home?
Allowed radiator coolant to splash on the ground?
Oil?
Worn leather?
Fur?
Used a natural sponge?
Kept an aquarium?
Dog?
Cat?
Ferret?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, your comments regarding providing a living creature with food are invalid.

Have a nice day!

if you agree that world war 2 had to be fought, you have no right to stand against the holocaust.:p

1) You can't feed dead mice/crickets to a spider, they won't eat them. Gotta have some movement to trigger them.

2) You're (stupidly) opening up a whole other can of beans by talking about the holocaust. Please start your own thread. Actually, just PM yourself instead. No one cares.

oroo, you need to just shut up, all I have seen is pwnage after pwnage of you, no one here agrees with your crappy philosophies, I don't know if you are a PETA member or something, but so you know, PETA is retarded

edit: furthermore, why is it okay to feed the spider live crickets but not live mice?


pwnage? i thinks not. why is it ok? because the spider will die if not fed. which is why i never once posted asking for humanely slaughtered crickets as feed you twit. he has no choice.



I figure 1 mouse = 8 crickets. So by feeding it a mouse, I've saved 8 crickets from harm. If math serves me correctly, 8>1. How many crickets do you think equal one mouse? Or do you have a number? Try this: how many human fetuses make up one cricket/mouse?

wow, thats some logic there. i guess i should start eating humans instead of chickens. all that matter are numbers, all other factors are irrelevant.


You keep bringing up a bunch of crap, like beating puppies and the holocaust, because you can't answer my simple question. How do you justify you eating meat when you could obviously to less harm then necessary by being a vegan?

i didn't make an arguement for zero harm. you probably didn't bother reading my posts and only read the skewed and illogical responses. i made an arguement for limiting cruelty, avoiding it when possible. i never once said he shouldn't feed it live crickets, because it needs to eat and cannot eat humanely killed crickets. i eat farmed meat. i don't choose to beat a cow to death and stick needles in its eyes as it slowly dies just so i can eat it. theres a difference.


I'm not nitpicking grammer, I'm arguing your words against logic, which escapes you. Your the one diverting attention with your holocaust BS.

You are a hypocrit who expects others to do has you say, not as you do. Now, STFU.

logic? you're the one who thinks that if one eats meat one has no right to stand against cruel treatment of animals? you call that logic? by that logic i could burn a puppy to death and if you objected and ate meat you could say nothing. and so with the same logic, a stance supporting the killing of human beings in war(ww2) nullifies your ability to stand against the holocaust(also the killing of human beings). does your stand make sense? is there logic? of course not. its also very familiar. oh yes, it the same bullsh*t logic suicide bombers and terrorists use to kill civilians. so stfu indeed!


 

RaiderJ

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Apr 29, 2001
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i didn't make an arguement for zero harm. you probably didn't bother reading my posts and only read the skewed and illogical responses. i made an arguement for limiting cruelty, avoiding it when possible. i never once said he shouldn't feed it live crickets, because it needs to eat and cannot eat humanely killed crickets. i eat farmed meat. i don't choose to beat a cow to death and stick needles in its eyes as it slowly dies just so i can eat it. theres a difference.

Fine, so you're for limiting cruelty - I think everyone can agree to that. I don't think ANYONE is for blantant animal cruelty/torture. But I still don't see how me feeding the mouse to the spider was cruel. I'm sure it didn't have the most pleasant death (does anything?), but I certainly didn't inflict any extraneous pain onto the mouse before I gave it to the spider.

The mouse was given to the spider AS FOOD, but it is darn interesting/entertaining to watch the spider kill the mouse. Heck, I would have videotaped the spider eating the mouse, but a 24 hour video of that would have become boring pretty quick.

If your argument for using crickets instead of mice is that they are "lesser" animals, how then can you support abortion? Talk about uneccessary cruelty, pregnancy is definitely avoidable (in most cases), and therefore abortion as birth control is very much cruel.
 

Zebo

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Fusken city boys...

That mouse was owned. BTW you guys can't come dove hunting with me. Have to grab body with one hand and use the other to rip thier heads off for the ones that the shot did'nt kill (about 50%). Hey it's humane and stops thier suffering.
 

BigJ

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0roo0roo, an honest question.

Why is it alright for a bunch of crickets to suffer, but not alright for one mouse to suffer? Are you saying the crickets suffer any less then the mouse? Cause I'd have to say being ripped apart in the jaws of a spider probably sucks as much as being killed by the venom of one.

I just want to know why you identity it as "less suffering" for a bunch of crickets to die compared to one mouse.