01-09-2016, 02:20 AM | #196 |
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Oh, your cats catch mice... isn't that cute.
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Hmm. Don't know how I feel about that. Obviously I have to state my bias as a rat-owner. I know these dogs are not killing domestic rats, but seeing it is still going to be close enough to be uncomfortable.
Also, it's the sheer glee of the owners. Diz and Dylan couldn't hunt - bless their furry chops - but I took no pleasure when Raphael and Gabriel brought home "gifts". I was certainly not impressed by the fully grown live magpie in the kitchen, although that was more because we were all terrified by it, rather than for animal-loving reasons. I suppose if rats are a problem, then it's a natural and humane way to deal with them. It's fast and gives them a chance to use their skills, unlike poison bait or traps. I just don't like to see humans getting so excited about the death of an animal.
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These are nasty dirty rats, that bite children and spread disease.
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01-09-2016, 05:35 AM | #199 |
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And spoil crops, but worst of all those rat bastards are the ones that lured cats into their semi-domesticated lifestyle.
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So we should revel in their death throes, laying down our vengeance on our tiny enemies?
Sundae's point was not that the rats should not be hunted. Indeed, she actually says: Quote:
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Oh, you know these people? You're sure they aren't reveling in the skill, tenacity, and success of their dogs?
Jesus Dana, you've read enough history to know what a problem rats are, how many millions of people they've killed, not only from bites/infection, but disease, the plague, and starvation. Look at the wildlife that's been decimated by rats on islands they've gotten to. Mice are cute, Rats are stone evil. Center for Disease Control Quote:
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Wild rats bad, Wild Cats good.
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Rats are not evil. They're just animals. I don't have a problem with killing them. I have killed rats myself.
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Sundae made a point about not liking to see humans excited by the rats'deaths,and was answered with this: 'These are nasty dirty rats, that bite children and spread disease.' That,is a reallygood reason for killing rats. It's not a really good reason for enjoying it. Unless you feel some sort of vengeance is in order. And that - when applied to a rodent - is fucking ridiculous. But yes - the flipside is that those people may have just been excited about their dogs' skills and the success of their training.
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01-09-2016, 11:36 AM | #204 |
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Balderdash, we should all have cupcakes and fizzy drinks in jubilation, every time one of those spawn of hell dies.
I can understand Sundae's affliction, she even feeds the flying rats, and bushy tailed tree rats, in the park. But a historian should have a better grasp on the menace they are, and the stellar service these dogs perform on humanities behalf. The human companions celebration on our behalf, is certainly warranted. My only regret is the vermin are dispatched so quickly, there's no time to hang them by their disease ridden tails and watch their eyeballs boil and burst in the flames of justice. Did you read about the human babies eaten alive in India, South Africa, Mexico and Kansas city, by this scourge?
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If the city's vermin control was doing its job, those rats would not be torn apart by dogs. They would be dying a slow, two-week-long agonizing death due to shock and anemia after internal hemorrhaging.
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Like Sundae said - if they're going to die, then this is probably the kindest and most natural way.
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Perhaps it's also a natural coping mechanism for people who don't particularly want to kill animals; but, need to for their own safety, to band together in such a way as to get each other and their companion animals psyched up to perform an unpleasant task that needs to be done.
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Some where there's a record set by a rat terrier, in England, for the most rats killed in X amount of time. Boy it was a bunch.
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And remarkable, because most dogs are not very bright.
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