Now what do I do?

[MossRoad]

In my opinion it should be considered with any creature.

Heck, if I have to squish a bug, I keep squishing until it stops moving! Most of the time, I take spiders, stink bugs, lady bugs, etc. out of the house and let them go. Wasps and hornets get squished in the house.

When I was a kid, my mom hit a squirrel or rabbit or something with the car. She went back and it was flip-flopping around in the road. She stopped and looked at it, then ran it over again! Yikes!

But then she explained to me that it was injured beyond help. She could see that. So she ended its suffering. No one liked that the animal died. But it wasn't anyone's fault. And it would be kinda immoral to leave it laying there in pain. As a little kid, that made sense.

 

[JethroB]

One of the great things about lifesaving swim classes is you get to practice with people of all shapes, sizes, textures, genders, etc... if you're a young kid, and you've never touched another human that closely, there's about nothing better to get you over being shy. You might as well be naked. Putting a person in a cross-chest carry and towing them to the side of the pool while resting them on your hip in a nice warm swimming pool and vice versa gets you past all that real quick.

You've got nowhere to hide standing there in your Speed.

Lifeguards tend to be a close knit bunch. Not only do you practice with each other often, so you're physically close, you rely on each other in life-threatening situations, so you're emotionally close. Some of the best friendships and good times in my life came from lifeguarding. I still see a few of them around town now and then. Went to one's funeral a couple years ago. One of the best bunches of people I've had the pleasure of knowing.

I took Sr. Lifesaving as a required PE my freshman year in college. I got a hippie sort of girl as a partner for 10 weeks. She didn’t shave anywhere. The first cross-chest carry
was interesting . I took beginning swimming the following year. Easy A.

 

[ovrszd]

Heck, if I have to squish a bug, I keep squishing until it stops moving! Most of the time, I take spiders, stink bugs, lady bugs, etc. out of the house and let them go. Wasps and hornets get squished in the house.

When I was a kid, my mom hit a squirrel or rabbit or something with the car. She went back and it was flip-flopping around in the road. She stopped and looked at it, then ran it over again! Yikes!

But then she explained to me that it was injured beyond help. She could see that. So she ended its suffering. No one liked that the animal died. But it wasn't anyone's fault. And it would be kinda immoral to leave it laying there in pain. As a little kid, that made sense.

Well stated.

 

[dirttoys]

Jeez - all you crazy animal lovers. Stand back 25 feet - shoot the skunk while he's in the trap. Leave it there a couple days for any odor to leave - bury it. Move on............

Now - figure out why the skunk was in your barn. Usually because there is a food source. Find it - put in a secure container.

I don't have any undue love for skunks, quite the opposite. From what is unfortunately extensive experience, shooting the skunk in the trap renders the trap unusable, and emptying it, is beyond my capacity. I choose to believe co is humane, that is the way I put my last two cats down when it was needed, it has the benefit of preserving the trap.

Best,

ed

 

[ponytug]

One of the great things about lifesaving swim classes is you get to practice with people of all shapes, sizes, textures, genders, etc... if you're a young kid, and you've never touched another human that closely, there's about nothing better to get you over being shy. You might as well be naked. Putting a person in a cross-chest carry and towing them to the side of the pool while resting them on your hip in a nice warm swimming pool and vice versa gets you past all that real quick.

You've got nowhere to hide standing there in your Speed.

Lifeguards tend to be a close knit bunch. Not only do you practice with each other often, so you're physically close, you rely on each other in life-threatening situations, so you're emotionally close. Some of the best friendships and good times in my life came from lifeguarding. I still see a few of them around town now and then. Went to one's funeral a couple years ago. One of the best bunches of people I've had the pleasure of knowing.

Being part of a team that puts themselves in harms way for others is special, and, I think, takes (makes?) a special sort of person.

All the best,

Peter

 

[jyoutz]

Whether you have or have not drowned an animal isn't the subject of debate here.

The subject of debate is the fact that your first choice of dispatch is drowning.

Lastly, you catch and release rats?

Wood rats, not those urban rats.

 

[ovrszd]

Wood rats, not those urban rats.

We must not have wood rats here. Never heard of one.

 

[Rockbadchild]

We must not have wood rats here. Never heard of one.

A pack rat or packrat, also called a woodrat or trade rat, can be any of the species in the rodent genus Neotoma.

Woodrats reach their greatest diversity in the deserts of the western United States and northern Mexico. Several species are also found in the deciduous forest of the east coast, juniper woodlands in the southwest, oak woodlands along the coastal western United States and in the Sonoran Desert, and in the forest and rocky habitats of the western United States and western Canada

 

[ovrszd]

A pack rat or packrat, also called a woodrat or trade rat, can be any of the species in the rodent genus Neotoma.

Woodrats reach their greatest diversity in the deserts of the western United States and northern Mexico. Several species are also found in the deciduous forest of the east coast, juniper woodlands in the southwest, oak woodlands along the coastal western United States and in the Sonoran Desert, and in the forest and rocky habitats of the western United States and western Canada

Thank you.

 

[jyoutz]

A pack rat or packrat, also called a woodrat or trade rat, can be any of the species in the rodent genus Neotoma.

Woodrats reach their greatest diversity in the deserts of the western United States and northern Mexico. Several species are also found in the deciduous forest of the east coast, juniper woodlands in the southwest, oak woodlands along the coastal western United States and in the Sonoran Desert, and in the forest and rocky habitats of the western United States and western Canada

Yep, those are the ones I was talking about. They build large nests of sticks outdoors, usually under a bush. They aren’t typically destructive, but can be annoying if they build a stick nest in your barn or shed.