I would like to ram the fly down the throat of any PETA supporter. By the way when I was a kid I use to kill frogs for their legs, how about that PETA?
I watched a Mydas Fly trapped in a small structure with many windows and an open door. It crawled along the indows. Several times it went into apoplectic buzzing and settled somewhere else.
Now a Mydas Fly is a large predatory fly and would be expected to be among the most intelligent of flies. Yet it couldn't find its way out. Bees and wasps seem to do much better. Butterflies generally struggle, as they see to have one-track minds.
I came back a couple days later and found it dead on a cushion being consumed by ants.
Capture and release a fly? How absolutely humanly humane. I was wondering if PETA captures and releases the termites that are eating their houses or do they call Clark to poison the little critters?
Termites may not be very intelligent as individuals but collectively the colony can make very clever decisions. I don't worry about termite infestation. How often does a house actually collapse? Let them live, and they'll let you live.
Snakes need to eat. Maybe you could find a snake keeper who needs rats to feed his pets. That reminds me, wasn't there an article on Yahoo recently about a 9-foot Burmese Python who exited his cage and killed its keeper's baby?
Posted on Thursday, 6/18/2009 - 9:21 a.m. PDT — by CCTModerator
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Go here to read the story about PETA's reaction and to see the video, http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_12619166.
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I would like to ram the fly down the throat of any PETA supporter. By the way when I was a kid I use to kill frogs for their legs, how about that PETA?
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That is amazing that you joined over 3 years ago and only now decided to post!
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I'm all for our tax dollars going into research to develope a system of lethal injection for our bug-eyed friends.
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I watched a Mydas Fly trapped in a small structure with many windows and an open door. It crawled along the indows. Several times it went into apoplectic buzzing and settled somewhere else.
Now a Mydas Fly is a large predatory fly and would be expected to be among the most intelligent of flies. Yet it couldn't find its way out. Bees and wasps seem to do much better. Butterflies generally struggle, as they see to have one-track minds.
I came back a couple days later and found it dead on a cushion being consumed by ants.
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Well...at least it had the sense to die peacefully in comfort on a cushion.
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Capture and release a fly? How absolutely humanly humane. I was wondering if PETA captures and releases the termites that are eating their houses or do they call Clark to poison the little critters?
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Termites may not be very intelligent as individuals but collectively the colony can make very clever decisions. I don't worry about termite infestation. How often does a house actually collapse? Let them live, and they'll let you live.
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No, no collapse, but your equity gets eaten as fast as the little critters can chomp through your floorboards. :)
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PETA doesn't find out we had to trap and kill some rats. Or maybe they have a home for them?
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Snakes need to eat. Maybe you could find a snake keeper who needs rats to feed his pets. That reminds me, wasn't there an article on Yahoo recently about a 9-foot Burmese Python who exited his cage and killed its keeper's baby?