tongue_tied_danny Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Wasps are bunch of little c***s and if they cross my threshold they fucking die. Moths are a pain in the arse and if they enter my home they get swatted. On the other hand, spiders are a great bunch of lads and they're more than welcome to crawl over my walls. I've never had a problem with rats or mice but if I did I'd use a humane trap. How bloodthirsty are you? Which creepy crawlies or small mammals are you prepared to slaughter in the cause of keeping your house comfortable? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Not very much. When I lived in Aberdeenshire I loved to shoot pheasant or rabbit for the pot but that's different. I hate wasps (not the American kind, of course) and if we have spiders in the bath or shower I usually put down some loo roll so they have a means to rescue themselves. Live and let live unless it's edible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 1 minute ago, The_Kincardine said: Not very much. When I lived in Aberdeenshire I loved to shoot pheasant or rabbit for the pot but that's different. I hate wasps (not the American kind, of course) and if we have spiders in the bath or shower I usually put down some loo roll so they have a means to rescue themselves. Live and let live unless it's edible. Agreed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Clothes moths tend to get sprayed as they're destructive wee fuckers Also I tried being humane to mice but poison seems the only way to get rid of them short of getting another cat. Apart from that I usually leave spiders alone and try and usher flies out of the window unless they're still buzzing about at 2 in the morning. Slug pellets got put down in the garden otherwise the new plants would have soon disappeared. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottmcleanscontacts Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Definitely wasps but that's probably about it.Not too keen on spiders but tend to let them be or if possible get them out the house humanely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkee Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Kill a wasp and his mates and family come back for you... big mistake. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said: Not very much. When I lived in Aberdeenshire I loved to shoot pheasant or rabbit for the pot but that's different. I hate wasps (not the American kind, of course) and if we have spiders in the bath or shower I usually put down some loo roll so they have a means to rescue themselves. Live and let live unless it's edible. Yeah, there was a spider in my sink when I went to shave the other day. I used a sheet of paper to lift it to safety before I ran the tap. Spiders are good people and I when I see one in my home I give it a thumbs up and encourage it to continue its arachnid activities. Edited October 16, 2020 by tongue_tied_danny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Nosejob Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Flies and bluebottles die, everything else lives. If I killed a wasp, I’d be worrying that an Alsatian would go hungry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Time. Usually whilst getting paid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 The occasional fish, though I'm mostly C&R nowadays. Any wee pests usually get sprayed or splatted. In the past I'd have wood pigeons, rabbits, squirrels etc, used to do some ratting too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Slugs, Scarlett lily beetles, mealybugs and any kind of biting insects e.g. horseflies mosquitos midges are all dispatched straight to hell. Bit of a grey area with the spiders. I catch and release the daddy long legs ones and any house spiders but if the missus is watching then they have to die. We have those false widows in the house recently and they seem to squeeze into cracks so the aerosol and lighter is your only man. A few years ago I was driving with my missus and we had fallen out and there was a pheasant in the middle of the road but I didn't even slow down. It just melted off the windscreen and went into orbit. Straight away I felt awful and wished i had stopped but it got us talking again and 12 years later we are still together! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FemdomFilmFan Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 If I see or hear anything alive in my house that I didn't wanna be there, I try to kill it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Mosquitoes and other bitey insects. Although that's a bit of stretch. 'Try to kill' might be more accurate.. And mices if they're in the hice. For the record, if anyone is considering a humane mouse trap, make sure to release it into your neighbours garden. Otherwise it will be back in your house before you are. If ever I find a rat in the house, I'm just going to burn it down and live under a tarpaulin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 18 minutes ago, Shotgun said: Mosquitoes and other bitey insects. Although that's a bit of stretch. 'Try to kill' might be more accurate.. And mices if they're in the hice. For the record, if anyone is considering a humane mouse trap, make sure to release it into your neighbours garden. Otherwise it will be back in your house before you are. If ever I find a rat in the house, I'm just going to burn it down and live under a tarpaulin. A tarpaulin? Luxury. We had to live in rolled up newspaper in middle of rubbish tip... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FemdomFilmFan Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, tamthebam said: A tarpaulin? Luxury. We had to live in rolled up newspaper in middle of rubbish tip... You were lucky. There were 150 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 I avoid killing anything non-human. However, bluebottles and daddy longlegs' get stunned and thrown onto the web of Steve the Spider III. I like to think I give everything a fighting chance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 (edited) We get a load of ants in the summer, every summer, but I just put the liquid baits out rather than skooshing stuff because we’ve got a house centipede that’s quite happy to eat as many of them as he/she can and I don’t want to cramp his/her style. There’s a couple of rat traps by the back gate, unfortunately the non-humane ones because the humane ones do f**k all to the hyper-evolved Chicago alley rat. We’ve got a feral bunny hangs out in the garden sometimes; the wee one calls him Mr Rabbit and she loves him although I suspect he’s had a change of actor over the 3 years he’s been about. Edited October 16, 2020 by carpetmonster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 1 hour ago, tamthebam said: A tarpaulin? Luxury. We had to live in rolled up newspaper in middle of rubbish tip... Aye, but I bet it was one of them posh, big papers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 I avoid killing anything smaller than me. Can't promise to stick to that in the post-Brexit wasteland, however. Apologies in advance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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