Poor li'l fella!

[Pheesh]

Cockroaches are nasty. I take them out with no mercy, and especially if they're large. Everything about them is really just not pleasant (has anyone seen it when the really big ones kinda lift themselves up on their legs and run around really fast?). Spiders I'm pretty ok with, I get quite a few redbacks around the place so I obviously kill them, but other types are fine to leave around, 'specially because they get rid of mosquitos and flies.

I also hate mice, I have to lay down poison and traps most of the year, they really annoy me cause if they ever get into the house then they start messing with my cereal boxes and other stuff that's in the pantry.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Oh, as for the thread topic, I'm a kill on sight person. Pretty much anything that wanders into my home will end up dying quickly, unless it looks like someone's pet.

[Mo-Nercy]

I've seen a few funnel web spiders in my time and they're pretty scary, but they've never been in the house so I just leave 'em alone.
As for more household bugs, I generally kill on sight.

But I draw the line at mice. I love mice! I used to own several and in summer when we kept their cages outside, I would go outside in the mornings to top up their food and there'd be 2-3 wild mice running around outside the cages trying to get their domesticated cousins out. It was cute. I started leaving some food for them too, just outside the cages, but my parents put an end to that.

[Quindiana Jones]

I had the exact same experience with my neighbours toddler, EE. Don't worry about it.

[Pheesh]

Pfft, you felt guilty for the toddler? That's just crazy talk.

[Quindiana Jones]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I just meant the death by pot thing.

[~*~Celes~*~]

I hate bugs I was just sitting here like a couple of days ago and a bug randomly dropped down on my desk beside me, scared the ever-living out of me. :\

[Iceglow]

I'm a bit of a strange one, I don't mind bees and wasps and generally knowing that when you kill one by crushing them, the venom in their stinger acts as a beacon drawing more of the buggers I'll just find a way to get the bugger outside and let it go free, same with ladybugs. Flies ect I will spray with an insecticide normally because if you don't then you'll end up with them laying eggs and nothing is worse than suddenly having an infestation of flies, as my mom learnt one year, thankfully I had just moved out. It's spiders where I get a little strange, most of the year I will kill or remove a spider depending on how I feel at the time straight away however in my area of london summer and autumn bring daddy long legs or as american's might know them, crane flies. Crane flies freak me out seriously I have a detestation of these things. They're like the only insect I have an actual fear of, I used to suffer with arachnaphobia pretty much until my nan took me to London zoo to get a zoo keeper in the bug house to help me get past the phobia (I almost killed a tarantula that day in the zoo!) but I've always been freaked by the crane flies. It's during summer and autumn I will leave any and all spiders I find alive in my house where they are because when a crane fly gets in a mere air-freshener/deodrant spray will then direct the freaky thing in to the nearest web and it will be eaten.


I've never had roaches and hopefully touch wood never will I don't think I'd be very happy with them running around my house, anything that will survive a nuclear blast but can't survive a rolled up news paper needs to die out imho or else teach us the nuclear blast trick and then die out.

I have also accidentally killed 2 pidgeons with a piece of flint, I was trying to scare them out of the tree where my nieces swing was tied up because she was scared of them. I threw the stone and it hit the branch, being flint this caused the stone to split in two and zoom off in opposite directions, unfortunately the two halves somehow hit both birds in the head and killed them both I would have felt guilty but I thought it was just too awesome. I did feel bad though in a way, my niece witnessed it and since then has never forgiven me for killing the all of a sudden cute birds.