Abnormally Kind To Animals

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I get really upset if I kill something. I don't want to kill any creature. I catch mosquitoes and let them go outside. I accidentally killed a spider cleaning this summer and I felt terrible. If something's alive I am predisposed to liking it.

This morning leaving the house I found a spider actually on my person so I caught him and put him outside. He was beautiful.

Insects have such short lives that I don't see the point in killing them. They'll be dead in a few hours or couple of days anyway.

I do have an affinity for all mammals, but that's about it. Even sea mammals. And birds, but I think that's about it. Other creatures I have no feelings for at all.

I'm extremely nice to animals, especially cats. I hate seeing animals treated badly. Insects, not so much. I hate houseflies so much, but I'm so fascinated to learn about insects. I usually try to get insects back outside rather than killing them. I'm sort of hypocritical, but whatever. Ok, thanks.

Bugs are generally on my hit list, but I do love animals quite a lot.

I'm very kind to animals. I love them a lot.

I'm much the same. I go out of my way to help insects and other animals any time I see that they're in need of assistance. Usually it's just moving a worm off of a street or putting a spider outside to stop other people from killing it (if there's one in the office, for example). There are some very pretty spiders which live above my apartment's mailboxes, and I always stop to smile at them. They are periodically cleared out by the landlord, though, unfortunately. I ran over a lizard on my bicycle a couple of months ago, and I felt horribly guilty about it. Still do, in fact.

I'm also the same way about plants as you are. I have always been clear with people that I don't like to be given flowers, but one boyfriend gave me some once, anyway. At my lack of enthusiasm in receiving them, he asked, "Don't you like flowers?" I said, "Yes. That's why I like them to be alive."

As a child, I had no qualms about killing insects, but now it seems horribly barbaric (unless it's in self-defense). It seems to me that "the spark of life" is just that--an immeasurable spark; an ant's life is no smaller than a human's, and a human's no smaller than an elephant's. I don't believe that any animal's life is inherently more valuable than any other's.

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YES! People have always complained that I seem to care more about animals that I do other human beings. I refuse to kill bugs and always tell the superworms I am sorry for having to cut their heads off (they can bite my lizard's stomach and seriously hurt her if I don't decapitate them). Animal testing has always distrbed me and seemed more like socialaibly accepted phycopathy than science. "It helps them to find cures for people" is a stupid excuse and just why are people so important that we have the right to torture another living thing to find a cure?

If I see or hear about a person getting hurt or killed by an animal or another person I feel nothing I just worry that they will kill the animal. If I hear about an animal that got hurt I get upset for days. If I see an animal being harmed, I do something about it. I've littraly stolen snakes and toads from people whom were going to hurt them. As a kid, I would hurt other kids for even talking about hurting animals.

Other kids thought it was funny to talk about blowing up kittens or puppies to try and upset me but I would hurt them. I've always admired organations like Peta and ALF and figure that people who are against them are only against them because they are those scums who think people are oh so much higher than animals or becuase they secretely abuse animals themselves. Others complain that they need to use all their recources to help people. I have no use for "people lovers" and they are their own special breed of scum. When people complain about me caring more about animals than people I tell them it is true and people react as if I have three heads. Why are people so important anyway?

I tend to be just as nervous around animals as I am around humans, and I hate that. I feel so bad shooing my cat out of my room whenever I'm feeling especially anxious, and I wish I could be a better owner to her.

my thought is that it is impossible to be 'abnormally' kind to animals. with humans like michael vick roaming the planet, animals of all sorts need all the love and protection some of us are willing to give them.

to PAOLO, i say this......humans are going to eat cows, chickens, pigs etc. in italy one can add horse.
factory farms, the largest concern for providing 'hamburger' and chicken, pork.....are horrific places. animals never see the outside till they die. chickens and pigs live in spaces so small they cannot turn around. the only humans who will work in these places are humans who think it is fun to abuse these helpless creatures. check out any animal rights group for undercover films. nothing can stop this. politicians are bought by the nra and food producers so they do not care. your normal human does not care as long as the meat is cheap.

temple grandin knows she is helpless to prevent the killings. cows are her favorite animals. she works to make their deaths as free from stress and abuse as she can. without what she has done, cows would suffer much more than they do now. there is no doubt about that.

Abnormally kind? WTF?

what about 'unusually' or better still extremely........its a good thing!! !! !

the negativity is chronic here!! !!

nitpicker

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unfortunately, i have failed god's bee, fly and mosquito test. i kill them all if they are in my tin can. with alacrity. and a vacuum cleaner.
but if it is something else that won't turn around and sting me or crap on me or exsanguinate me, i trap it in a transparent cup then place it outside. when i was at work at the hospital ages ago, there was a lady bug that somehow ended up in my operating room, so i gingerly scooped it up in a cup and walked down the garden downstairs in the lobby, and released it there. i try.

Yes, Ladybugs eat aphids which are beneficial to gardens. I rescue the ones I can or the ones with a lot of guts, depending and the rest, well...squish.

I think I can admit to unusual kindness to animals.

I campaign for sharks, whales and coral, rescue injured wildlife, raise and release orphaned wildlife, walk pound dogs, cleaner and companion for animal rescue centre, rescued and adopted abandoned cats (3), petitioned for bird refuge sites and mammal road kill reduction, move little and sometimes big reptiles and amphibians off the road so they don't get squashed. I try not to step on bugs and insects, catch mozzies and poisonous spiders and release them back outside, safe spiders are more than welcome to rest inside.

I sign petitions for all, any wild animal protection and financially support rehab and rescue programmes and non-profit groups.

Animals are wonderful, except homosapien