Ever feel guilty for killing baby spiders?

[HEyHEY]

I do, but I shouldn't what if they're baby hobo spiders??? huh?

I can't let this kind of thing go on!

[NJCher]

1. don't kill them!

Take a tissue and gently put them outdoors. They are superb at trapping annoying insects.


Cher

[HEyHEY]

2. But if they bite me, I'm looking at surgery

[2Design]

3. a friend explain to me how to deal with guilt.....if they come into your

house, they are in your territory and it is ok to kill the mice, the bugs and the spiders...

[HEyHEY]

4. ah, yes

I actually had to beat a mouse to death a few months ago. Not a nice way to wake up

[blackcat77]

9. That's my rationale

I tell myself that I have a moral right to control my own personal space. But once I go out the door, the rules change.

[Misunderestimator]

16. How about Republicans that come in your house?

j/k... Asscroft... j/k

[madrchsod]

5. off topic------

i was cruising home tonight thru the corn fields of northern illinois in my geo metro listening to the am....so i hit a station that is playing techno -trance music---i said to myself-what the hell? on am radio?...ya it`s felix de house kat..oh wow..it`s french canadian am radio....you guys up there have some cool things we sure the hell don`t have here...

[HEyHEY]

6. Lucky for us we have the French

Much of the reason for our cool stuff

[Maple]

7. No

The outdoors is theirs, the indoors is mine. No exceptions.

[DRoseDARs]

8. Spray them with Raid every chance I get

I absolutely hate most spiders. Wolf spiders, daddy longlegs, taranchulas I can stand, but everything else dies horribly if I find it in the house.

Slow, painful death by nerve-gassing :thumbsup:



Edit: Had to paint myself as more evil and uncaring than originally posted :)

[MaryBear]

10. Yes, about them and their adult relatives, but

then I remind them (and myself) that I had already warned them to be gone from my house.

GB

[Pax Argent]

11. For years I've apologized just before tissue-papering them

and sending them to a watery grave. I honor their right to live outside, but my space is mine.

[ellie]

12. I never kill spiders

I just think that everything has a purpose, and a spider's purpose is to kill insects. I'm ok with that.

[RebelOne]

13. I'm an animal rights advocate, but when it comes to bugs,

that's another story. I grab the Raid.

[Cuban_Liberal]

14. I generally don't kill them, if I can help it.

If I see one first, I'll try to 'shoo it' away, but if one surprises me, it's "Taps" for the arachnid in question, normally.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

15. nope

The spiders round here are mostly small and harmless so we pretty much leave each other alone, but I get centipedes, big speedy brown ones so huge that their legs look furry and eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyew they must die. Die die die.

Tip: when they are out of reach up the wall or on the ceiling, I use a Grabbit mop to smush them. The Grabbit cloth becomes their burial shroud. Kinda wasteful, but man. Too many legs to touch. :scared:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

18. We have those nasty house centipedes, too

Ugly nasty things. Those are always dispatched (unless they run away too quickly, in which case I deal with them later.)

[MrScorpio]

17. Not at all. Definitely an inside/outside issue

In the house, all bugs are toast

Besides, there's lots of space out side to live. And I do mean live.

[kimchi]

19. I used to feel guilty; but now I have a child.

We have seen black widows outside in our shoes. Sorry, guys--if you stay outside and out of my sight you live. Otherwise---my home needs to be safe.

[Nikia]

20. I don't kill things. It makes me emotionally hurt

To end the life of another living creature. I make an exception for attacking mosquitos.

[DRoseDARs]

21. The way I figure, if a person's been reincarnated as a spider...

...I'm doing them a favor by prematurely ending their lifecycle so they can move on and reincarnate as something else. :thumbsup:

[tonekat]

22. We say, "Sorry, but...

"...you're in the wrong place at the wrong time." Now, we do let some alone, like the one in the under-construction addition who has a nice web full of dead mosquitos.

My wife is really scared of those things we call "cave-crickets" (man, the south has strange bugs!) a.k.a. "hump-back crickets". But she's not scared of bees.

My phobia: hornets and wasps. Especially those huge ones that look like they're two inches in length! Yaaaahhh, out of my way!

[BlueHandDuo]

23. Aren't you a little old to be...

...chewing that Bubble Yum anyway?

[MrSlayer]

24. Spiders are good, they kill the bad bugs.

You shouldn't kill spiders or Praying Mantis.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

25. I just put them outside.

I used to kill them becasue I was so scared of them. The only things I kill are ants and mosquitos.

[Blue-Jay]

26. I like spiders.

It's the only type of creepy crawlie that I'll make a point to relocate instead of squishing them.

[Skip Intro]

27. I feel bad about killing anything

yes, I do feel guilty for killing baby spiders or any spiders.

The longer I live, the more I realize that all life is miraculous. I try hard not to "KILL" anything, but I will admit, I have, and do, kill spiders.

If its at all possible, I'll throw a plastic cup over the spider, and then try to slip some piece of cardboard under him, and then take him outside and let him loose. I will go to a great extent to do this for beetles and moths, especially, but I really try to find a way to avoid killing the creature.

If that's not possible, for whatever reason, I'll try to make his death as quick and painless as possible. And as I flush him, I ask for forgiveness. Something on this earth has stopped living, because of me.

So, when I kill a spider or the odd insect that has found its way into my domain, I do so reluctantly, and I do feel guilty.