I looked some, couldn’t find the thread on the large Marlin. I made a comment that I wasn’t firmly against the ‘harvesting’ of the fish.
I was mowing yesterday, I purposely left an area un-mowed to protect a toad. I also was cautious with some toads today, cutting & mowing at a neighbors.
I harken back to a bartender that didn’t like guys grouse hunting, as she ate a chicken sandwich.
I’m in the camp, life is life, even if we don’t like components, life goes on.
Posts: 7437 | Location: WI | Registered: February 29, 2012
How far do you go? Do you avoid ant piles? Does cutting the grass take food away from other insects and animals? Would you let mosquitos or flies bite you to keep from killing them?
I’m not knocking you, I would really like to know where the line is drawn. When I hunt, I do not kill what I or someone else will not eat. But I will kill nuisance animals that are destroying things (like feral hogs).
I once mowed over a tarantula and a scorpion ended up in the garbage disposal.
_________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902
Posts: 10414 | Location: Northern Virginia | Registered: November 04, 2005
I was mowing yesterday, I purposely left an area un-mowed to protect a toad. I also was cautious with some toads today, cutting & mowing at a neighbors.
Good on you sourdough.
Serious about crackers.
Posts: 11383 | Location: San Diego | Registered: July 26, 2014
I am always on the lookout for snakes, and toads when mowing and stop immediately.
I likely mow less often than most anyone and my lawn consists of many flowering weeds. TBH I wish the grass I planted years ago was gone and it was all native weeds and grasses. Some areas only get mowed once a year, in fall.
No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride.
If an animal is trespassing in my yard I don't slow down when mowing.
"But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley
These are not wilderness species. Most could be considered backyard, and I'll bet most here have childhood memories connected to them. Sparing a toad from being chopped up in a mower strikes me as a worthwhile thing to do. I have no use for those who kill snakes indiscriminately.
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Posts: 14788 | Location: Wyoming | Registered: January 10, 2008
Around the chbibc compound there is wildlife and there is nuisance wildlife. I will kill woodchucks, rabbits, chipmunks, mice and squirrels that are raiding my garden, chewing on the siding, chewing their way into the house and generally causing damage. I love those animals but they are too numerous and there is n imbalance. There are simply not enough predators (birds of prey, foxes, coyotes) but when I see predators around I am happy. I will never intentionally kill a snake, toad or frog and I can relate to avoiding harming them. Someone here said it best - you do you.
I hunt and fish and eat everything I take.
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Posts: 9060 | Location: Rochester, NY behind enemy lines | Registered: March 12, 2002
I hunt and fish, but I do not indiscriminately kill anything that can't harm me.
We have an influx of black widows this year. Yes, I kill them. But if I can shoo an wasp out of my screen rather than killing it, I will do so.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
Posts: 13624 | Location: Florida, Northwest of the Mouse | Registered: November 02, 2008
Wasps are the only ones that get no mercy. I'll relocate a slider to outside.
When mowing, can't say I’ve noticed any critters in my path, but wouldn't intentionally run anything over. But, i live on 1/2 acre is fairly close proximity to I45, so there isn't a lot of ground critter activity other than squirrels.
I'll give most any critter some time to get out of the way, but rattlesnakes will get broadcast out of the chute without hesitation.
Posts: 10355 | Location: Somewhere looking for ammo that nobody has at a place I haven't been to for a pistol I couldn't live without... | Registered: December 02, 2014
