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Sat Jan-22-05 07:51 PM
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Poll question: Would you kill and eat a pet if you were stranded and starving |
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to death?
I mean, really stranded, and a really close pet.
Would you do it if you had nothing else to eat?
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:52 PM
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1. Do you have plans we don't know about? |
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:54 PM
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2. To strand and starve myself? |
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Well, no, I don't think so...
Hope that never happens to me.
I was just reading the thread in LBN about the guinea-pig that was eaten by a kid after being bought from the pet store. Different situation, but I'm just testing people's relationships with their pets, here. Are they REALLY on the same level as us?
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:57 PM
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I would rather they eat me but I hope they would not eat me until I was dead though. I have enough trouble driving by dead animals let alone having to kill one.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:00 PM
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7. Don't think the hunger would get to ya? |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:10 PM
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they are my family and I wouldn't shoot and eat them. Really, I could not do it.
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Sun Jan-23-05 06:26 PM
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81. What if your children were starving? |
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I would eat my Dog Magpie if I had to and if my children were starving Magpie would be roasted in a second. Yummy Magpie!
Actually I don't have a Dog called Magpie but if I did she could be lunch in desperate circumstances however I love animals and would only do it if I had to. Hell, I would eat people if I had to. It's all just good protein when you think about it.
Yummy Aunt Gertrude's liver is delicious!
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:57 PM
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4. Umm, what's the pet been eating ? |
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If there isn't something for both of you you're not likely to last long even eating the pet.
Not to mention preservation issues.
You will likely last a while without eating the pet. Water is the critical issue.
Of course, if you don't, as time goes on you may have the opposite problem ...
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:04 PM
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9. Say you were in snow, and there was plenty of water. |
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Let's also say that you know that your pet's fur would help an awful lot with keeping out the cold.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:11 PM
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16. If its big enough to be a major fur supplier in that situation |
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then there's likely to be a bit of an argument over who gets to consume whom.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:14 PM
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17. Well, you could at least get a nice hat out of even |
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a cat. But let's say a 75 pound dog.
Even so, if the animal was so big that you think it WOULD attack you once it got hungry enough, don't you think you'd want to take care of it before it even got to that point?
Seems like that would just mean that the whole thing should go down earlier.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:20 PM
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24. Which is what I mentioned earlier |
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SO you're advocating Preemptive Assured Consumption ?
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:21 PM
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26. No, I'm really not advocating anything. |
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Especially not pre-emptive anything.
What do you think, though?
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Sun Jan-23-05 03:50 PM
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69. A 70 dog sleeping beside me would keep me much warmer than fur. |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:53 PM
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dig out a shelter, melt water, have the pet lay on you to keep you warm. If there is grass under the snow and you can get to it, salad, and there should be grubs under the grass...if you can dig them out...ground would be soft near fire...of course you'd have to be in the habit of carrying matches or lighters..
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Sun Jan-23-05 06:00 PM
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79. Eating a little snow for water is ok, but |
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you don't want to eat much.
Snow is mostly air content and it takes lots of energy for your body to break it down for the water content. This causes your body temperature to drop, and makes you subject to hypothermia.
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:57 PM
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5. No, we would stick together until he decided to have me for lunch. |
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:58 PM
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6. I love my dog. He is 12 yrs old and 130 lbs. |
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Edited on Sat Jan-22-05 08:31 PM by seriousstan
But if we were lost in the woods without finding food for weeks there would come a time when he had better bring back food or don't come back. One way or another, he is bringing food back.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:21 PM
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27. You aint got much of a woods if there aint no food |
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Get over your squeamishness or your culinary tastes
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:03 PM
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8. my pet would probably kill and eat me! |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:05 PM
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11. Hmmm...maybe you should kill him first, then. |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:05 PM
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12. Even if I could, which I wouldn't, what would I eat next? No. |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:08 PM
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14. Would you be thinking that rationally at that point? |
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My thing is, I expect that you get to the point where you're not thinking in those kinds of terms anymore. Hunger becomes all that you're thinking about.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:06 PM
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13. "Timothy! Timothy! Lord, what did we do?" |
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First thing I thought of when I read your subject line!
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:14 PM
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Edited on Sat Jan-22-05 08:15 PM by BullGooseLoony
:)
Timothy wasn't as tasty, I bet.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:14 PM
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18. How could you even ask such a question? |
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May dog is my best friend. Would you want to kill and eat your best friend?
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:16 PM
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20. Want to, no. Have to- |
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Edited on Sat Jan-22-05 08:16 PM by BullGooseLoony
well....
Hunger is a pretty serious psychological force, I hear.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:42 PM
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37. Yes, but I'm a sociopath. |
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Please don't send the FBI over to my place to search my freezer.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:17 PM
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21. Hell No. I'd starve to death. |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:19 PM
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23. Your very, very close pet. |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:20 PM
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25. I don't have a 10-year-old pet. |
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And my birds are too small to contain very much meat. I'd probably find more to eat on a transient.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:22 PM
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28. Okay, then, would you eat a transient? |
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32. I plan on doing just that tonight. |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:26 PM
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34. Hey, that's how Jeffrey Dahmer started! nt |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:23 PM
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30. Yeah, but cleaning the carcass is so yucky |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:23 PM
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29. Yes. Because if I was starving |
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so would the pet be and I wouldn't want something that close to me to die such an ugly death.
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31. You know, that's an interesting way of looking at it. |
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Do you want your pet to suffer?
Don't we put pets out of their misery when they're suffering, anyway?
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:26 PM
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33. It's like asking me if I'd eat my child ! |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:36 PM
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People HAVE killed and eaten their pets, though, in these kinds of situations. I can't imagine anyone EVER killing one of their children and eating them. In fact, I'd imagine that they'd kill themselves for their children to eat before eating them.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:41 PM
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36. I've got two cats I'd kill and eat for shits and giggles |
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They piss me off.
Anybody got any recipes?
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I have six very bad kitties and I am constantly telling them I'm going to eat them. They allow me to say this because they really know who has the upper paw in this house.
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:49 PM
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38. Why does this even cross your mind? |
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43. It was the guinea-pig eating thread in LBN. nt |
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Sat Jan-22-05 08:53 PM
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39. BGL is on cocaine again! |
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Sat Jan-22-05 09:02 PM
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41. If I had a pet, it would be more important to my emotional survival… |
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The pet might be the only thing keeping you going.
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Sat Jan-22-05 09:04 PM
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42. Yes, because I'm sure they'd eat me. You can call it "kissing" all you |
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want but they're actually TASTING!!!:scared:
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45. my pets are two hamsters! |
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a lot of good THAT would do me.
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Sun Jan-23-05 02:31 PM
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46. No, my Minou would scout for food |
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He does that when we go for walks in the woods together.
If there was nothing, and the situation was bleak, we'd have one last cuddle and I'd let him go :-) There's no reason for him to die just because we're both screwed.
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Sun Jan-23-05 02:33 PM
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47. would you eat your child |
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it might as well be the same question.
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48. Interesting comparison, but not quite the same. nt |
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My cat is my baby. I'd sooner die myself.
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52. So if you were in some kind of disaster and you could only |
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save one out of your child and your cat, you couldn't make the choice?
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53. it will very difficult to make such a choice |
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55. Yes, I have four cats and a hamster. |
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And I've had a lot of dogs (one of which just died a few days ago).
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57. I think kids outrank pets |
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similarly dogs outrank goldfish
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49. I would say no, but I seriously don't know, since I have never |
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experienced the level of starvation and desperation that might compel someone to do such a thing through survival instinct. I can't even begin to imagine doing that, but I'm sure those people who crashed in the Andes and ate eachothers' carcasses wouldn't have imagined themselves being capable of doing that either (nor would I).
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We'd all die together without eating each other (although if I died before they did I certainly wouldn't mind if they nibbled on me if it would keep them alive).
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54. How about this- if your pet died first, |
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Besides the attachment level, I'm a Muslim, and we're prohibited from eating animals that died on their own.
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Sun Jan-23-05 03:44 PM
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65. you can't eat an animal that died on its own |
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you'll get sick or even die
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Sun Jan-23-05 02:54 PM
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58. Sure, but fried goldfish aren't very appetizing |
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59. Our dog can find food anywhere, she is much better at it than I am.. |
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If she can't find food, the situation is hopeless and we will all starve together.
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Sun Jan-23-05 03:19 PM
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60. From "GOin' South".... |
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"I'm so hungry I could eat a frozen dog" <reply> "Well I'll look out back and see if we have one already frozen."
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If there is no vegetation we can both eat, we are essentially screwed.
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63. How do you cook Sea Monkeys? |
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70. Swallow them. Just be sure to remove those pointy little crowns first. |
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You wouldn't want those lodged in your throat. :7
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64. If you had tools to kill the pet, you might be able to do something better |
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I don't think I could kill a cat or dog by breaking its neck or something. It would probably make me panic, cry, and hurt my chances at survivability. If I had a knife, or gun, or something, I'm sure I could find food in a better way.
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Sun Jan-23-05 03:46 PM
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66. Hell, I'd kill and eat YOU if I was hungry enough. |
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Sun Jan-23-05 03:48 PM
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67. No! If I'm stranded, she better bring back something for me. |
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If it was my dog I'd probably hack off a few fingers, feed 'em, and send him out for help :9
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Sun Jan-23-05 04:18 PM
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72. Pass the salt, please... |
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73. That's very difficult to answer |
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I've never been stranded and starving. Offhand I'd say no, I just don't think I could live with myself. I am still wracked with guilt for putting my dog to sleep, who was old and senile and arthritic. But I understand that starving to death is one of the most painful ways to go, so who knows what I'd do if I was actually in that situation?
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74. No... I'd rather eat dirt |
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That would be too close to cannibalism for me. There are times, when I'm eating a good juicy steak when I look at the breathing, alive, dog and feel guilty. So I immediately toss him a piece of meat or a good bone to make that guilt go away and remind myself that I'm not the only meat eater in the house but never, ever could I eat him! Nor the cats! They're family... And the same goes for any pet I would find. It's bad enough we eat meat, but to kill and eat animals that have been domesticated to love us, that's a step I just couldn't take.
This is why, no matter how initially romantic the thought, I would never go live on a farm!
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75. No way. Never. I'd sooner die. I'd sooner |
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77. I have two giant african millipedes as pets |
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My collies would throw themselves in front of a moving vehicle for me. I would not repay that devotion by eating them. Chances are I'd die anyway, and I'd die alone. Forget that.
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80. No, but she'd eat me in a minute |
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if she were about 20 pounds larger...
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