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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2007, 01:24:38 AM »
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I'm a meat eating anti PETA guy but I have to disagree with this.  It just isn't right to torture another animal like that.  I have no problem with someone setting a lethal trap for nuisance animals or to catch food, but to injure an animal for a laugh just isn't right.


squirrels ARE a nuisance animal.

And the trap may very well have been lethal.

Why not have a few laughs in the proccess

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« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2007, 01:29:01 AM »
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kharma is real. I mean, look at ....you.


yep.  must have done something right in the last life.

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« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2007, 01:31:27 AM »
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squirrels ARE a nuisance animal.

And the trap may very well have been lethal.

Why not have a few laughs in the proccess

:aok :aok


dunno, maybe because breaking somethings bones or disabling it so that it starves to death is inhumane maybe?
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« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2007, 01:34:12 AM »

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« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2007, 01:52:33 AM »




this little fellow came up to me while i was working in the yard and asked me for help.  one of its eyes was severely damaged and it had wounds with dried blood caked all over them.  it was too young to survive on its own.  

when i sat down on the porch he crawled up onto me and i took him to a wildlife rehabilitation center.  i figured that if he was smart enough and brave enough to ask me for help then it was the least could do.  

he has since been re-introduced onto my property (minus one eye) along with another from somewhere else whose leg was amputated.  they were rehabilitated together and they are coming along just fine as far as i can tell.  they remain wild.

i keep the squirells and rodents out of my house and attic by using an ultrasonic device which makes the spaces uninviting for them to habitate.

each morning when i feed my ducks and the wild birds (lots of different types come now) i leave a little pile for the squirrels as well so they wont eat all of the food.  

its a symbiotic relationship which brings me alot of happiness.

i like animals.  i admire them for their ability to survive in a manner which is free.  i do not hunt, but i understand the need to be able to and have done so in the past.  i cannot stand to see things abused to satisfy the insecurities of people who feel the need to act out their anger on things which cannot fight back.

people like to hurt things for pleasure.  it is small.  it is wasteful.  it is sociopathic.

they deserve that type of treatment way before animals do.  

ask your wives if i should have taken this little squirell and wrung its little neck or put it in a slingshot rather than saving it.
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« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2007, 02:11:06 AM »
That is quite a story, 88.  As much as I love animals, I know how much of a pain in the bellybutton they can be as well.

I don't much like squirrels, never have, never will.  But that is a nice story you shared with us.  

I'd personally like to give you a as I don't think there's too many of us here that'd share that kind of story on this board.

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« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2007, 02:12:59 AM »
When I first saw the squirrel sling shot (quite a while ago) I thought it was very funny.

Infact I still think its funny, but only till the poor little bastard hits the ground, then its not so funny.

Mind you the little salamander probably landed in the tree and was fine (At least thats what I will tell myself).

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« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2007, 02:19:09 AM »
ahh.... peta :)

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« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2007, 02:22:45 AM »
thanks diablo, mussie.



i bet you'd have done the same thing.  (or at least called someone over who would)

hmmmmm....

(imagining a super springed toaster with a goal post...PETW?)

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« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2007, 07:11:37 AM »
I would bet that 9 out of 10 squirrels launched from that thing walked away from the incident unscathed and yet a little bit smarter.  Squirrels are tough as heck; they can fall from a power line or tree and shack it off as if it were nothing.  Scale yourself down to 1/10 your size and you would weigh 1/1,000 your weight and still would have about 1/100 your strength.  The fact that squirrels are cute and fuzzy buys them a lot of sympathy, but they are really just tree rats.  Hug em or shoot em; whoever you are launching them is just downright funny.

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« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2007, 07:31:27 AM »
awww man, poor little squirrell :lol

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« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2007, 08:07:44 AM »
Really, though, the squirrel is almost certainly unharmed.  Like Eskimo, I've seen squirrels fall out of tall trees and scurry away without pausing.  Terminal velocity is terminal velocity, no matter what direction or distance.

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« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2007, 08:32:44 AM »
Yea, they probably are launched above their terminal velocity and slow down to their terminal velocity during their flight. I bet if they were wet and their fur was matted down they might fly a little faster and further…  They must experience a nice gee induced red-out or black-out on launch as well.

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« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2007, 09:10:00 AM »
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I would bet that 9 out of 10 squirrels launched from that thing walked away from the incident unscathed and yet a little bit smarter.  Squirrels are tough as heck; they can fall from a power line or tree and shack it off as if it were nothing.  Scale yourself down to 1/10 your size and you would weigh 1/1,000 your weight and still would have about 1/100 your strength.  The fact that squirrels are cute and fuzzy buys them a lot of sympathy, but they are really just tree rats.  Hug em or shoot em; whoever you are launching them is just downright funny.


Tell yourself what you must, but I think once it hit that tree the chance of breaking a bone in its leg is pretty high.  Then you end up with a disabled animal that starves to death.  I have no problem killing animals  I used to knock off skunks that came around my house all the time.  There just isn't a reason to make them suffer.

If you want a real laugh, break a cat's two left legs.  It's hysterical watching them try to get up and just keep falling over.  :huh

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« Reply #29 on: January 14, 2007, 09:17:56 AM »
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Regarding the thread, I thought it was pretty darned funny and no way that squirrel would have got hurt, they're like cats when it comes to falls.

Regarding JB88's post, that is very touching, JB88, to you. I love animals as much as you do.  I believe we should only kill what we eat, therefore I will kill wild ducks, geese, grouse, pheasants....but at the same time I would entertain having ducks on my own pond (if I had a pond) and not shoot them too!