Ohh NOOOOO

[PythonGirl]

lol we now have more boa's than pythons so I am not really a "Python" girl any more lol and our BRB is one of my faves lol.

	Brazilian Rainbow Boa

[ssjsmits]

Originally Posted by PythonGirl

....then dustin went to get his air rifle to kill it...

Originally Posted by faroutinmt

As much as I love animals, I would have killed it too. Sorry to hear that your dog got sprayed. Glad to hear your husband didn't.

Hearing stuff like this #$!#$!#$!#$! me the #$!#$!#$!#$! off. That's the difference with me. I will not kill an animal for being an animal (an exception maybe being a life and death situation). A critter that's being a "nuisance" doesn't deserve to be killed. There are humane ways to deal with stuff like this. Why should something be killed for just trying to live/survive? Killing them is bogus and down right low.

[faroutinmt]

Originally Posted by ssjsmits

Hearing stuff like this #$!#$!#$!#$! me the #$!#$!#$!#$! off. That's the difference with me. I will not kill an animal for being an animal (an exception maybe being a life and death situation). A critter that's being a "nuisance" doesn't deserve to be killed. There are humane ways to deal with stuff like this. Why should something be killed for just trying to live/survive? Killing them is bogus and down right low.

No need for insults.

Just think of another perspective: If you had a dozen flies buzzing around your head in your living room, would you trap and relocate them or kill them? If you had a hornet nest in your bathroom, would you trap and relocate them or kill them? If you want to pay to trap and relocate a skunk, you could. But, skunks are abundant and known carriers of rabies. The hornets nest in your bathroom may be much less dangerous.

[PythonGirl]

If this particular family of skunks werent seen killing peoples cats and getting into everything maybe it would have been different. I guess thats just the difference between you and I because I am not going to kill something unless its a danger to me or my family. Skunk= Rabies, and being that we have seen them in the day as well as at nite and they are not really afraid of people that much they are not rite them selves, oh well I will be labled as the " Low, Bogus, Skunk Killer" I hope that none of you have ever been hunting before though. Because thats killing animals just for the sport of it. Not even because they are a "nuisance". Oh well sorry to EVERYBODY I have offended I was not aware there was a Skunk rites activist group here. MY APPOLOGIES TO ANYBODY I OFFENDED. If it makes a difference the skunk did not suffer, He got one shot and was dead and my dog and cat and kids in the neighborhood are safe. Sorry again

[PythonGirl]

I feel that maybe if anybody else here criticizing me was in the same situation they reaction might be different than they thought. Skunk spray can blind some animals. Causing them LOTS of pain. My dog got sprayed in the face, pure luck has it that he shut his eyes. If you smack a Mosquito you are just killing it because its a nuisance, its just another animal trying to survive. If you have ever killed a spider, fly, bee, anything. They are all just animals trying to survive. You all just feel differently about this one because its bigger than a bug and "soo cute and furry"

We personally believe this skunk might have been rabid because our dog is in a fenced in yard, the skunk was not in the fence, there was nothing stopping this skunk from running away. We personally SAW the skunk turn and spray the dog through the fence and ran away then again 2 hours later the SAME skunk came and did the same thing over again.

[Johnny Utah]

If you kill that skunk, won't another one just appear? What are you going to do, keep shooting them until they don't exist anymore?

Not trying to be a smart #$!#$!#$!, I just never understood that way of thinking.

[PythonGirl]

Lol skunks respawn upon killing. No there is one family in the neighborhood that lives under my neighbors shed. It does not seem like you guys understand that skunks are really quite dangerous. They kill the kittens in the neighborhood to eat. If you have a chihuahua puppy outside at night and saw there was a skunk munching on your puppy because it was small and he was hungry... would you not kill him? I donno

[ssjsmits]

Originally Posted by faroutinmt

No need for insults.

Just think of another perspective: If you had a dozen flies buzzing around your head in your living room, would you trap and relocate them or kill them? If you had a hornet nest in your bathroom, would you trap and relocate them or kill them? If you want to pay to trap and relocate a skunk, you could. But, skunks are abundant and known carriers of rabies. The hornets nest in your bathroom may be much less dangerous.

Well can one blame me. "Oh this this is being annoying, I'm going to kill it". That's just how I see it. But in reference to your perspective, I do catch and release flies. Granted I'm very particular about keeping doors and windows shut so I rarely, if ever, have a fly in the house. In Pullman, there are wasps as far as the eyes can see. There are dozens of nests just on my front porch alone. Heck, there's one inside the rear view mirror on my chevy. Yeah they are kind of annoying and I've been stung several times. Perhaps I am being a little particular. But that's just how I am. I don't believe any living thing deserves to be killed just for being itself. Prime example, rattlesnakes. What does the majority of people do when they see one? Do they leave it alone like they should? Or do they kill it on sight? Why? Just because it's a rattlesnake. Yet it wasn't doing anything wrong.
I'm that type of person who sees a spider in the house and lets it go outside instead of squishing it.

[Johnny Utah]

And somewhere out there, there's a forum of skunk lovers talking about those #$!#$!#$!#$! reptile keepers who don't think twice to shoot a poor skunk. How ironic!

[PythonGirl]

How about mosquitos? There is really not much point in arguing this any more... people telling me how low I am is not going to make the skunk come back. The thing about the skunk is that it was doing something wrong, it was doing alot of things wrong RED FLAG!! HURTING OTHER ANIMALS!! RED FLAG animals that were peoples pets one skunk vs multiple pets. Like I said no point in arguing this one... we are going to have to agree to disagree but I don't want to be looked down upon because I had my husband kill a skunk.