WHAT IF -

[Duchess]

Fish don't have souls either.

[Donovan]

I'd be fine. I've lived on a pretty raw edge a few times in my life and you'd be surprised how fast the unimportant stuff is stripped away. My woods are full of things to hunt, kill and eat. I have a pretty good working knowledge of what green stuff I can digest. And I keep a great many of my supplies in all your garages. Thanks for holding that stuff for me BTW.

[F.U.]

I think everything has "feelings". Not that it stops me from ending its life.
Maybe I am sadistic but there is nothing like riping the still harm heart out of a animal that was minutes ago standing there looking at you.
Oh god I hope PETA never sees that comment. LMAO.

[Duchess]

there is nothing like riping the still harm heart out of a animal that was minutes ago standing there looking at you.

I'm pretty sure I could never do that. I'd be wailing & bawling for christssake.

[Donovan]

@FU lol that reminded me of when I took my wife and young boy to Key West years ago. We were strolling around looking at all the hundreds of wild chickens everywhere and my boy was fascinated by them and wanted to name all of them etc. I said "you know, if I were homeless here I'd never starve" and when he and the wife figured out what I meant they both got pissed off and wouldn't talk to me the rest of the day. Screw animal rights and PETA: if I need a meal to keep me breathing, anything within reach and moving too slowly is gonna have a real bad day...I don't care if it has hooves, wings or a studded rhinestone collar.

[ramseycat]

I think everything has "feelings". Not that it stops me from ending its life.
Maybe I am sadistic but there is nothing like riping the still harm heart out of a animal that was minutes ago standing there looking at you.
Oh god I hope PETA never sees that comment. LMAO.

*I* saw it. That's bad enough.

[sally]

Fish don't have souls either.

I don't think anyone has a soul, but if they do I think fish should be included. I had a lion fish in my aquarium that was smarter than my basset hound and my sister put together.

[Duchess]

Not smarter than Max! C'mon!

I've never felt protective of a fish like I do the animals. There's no emotion there. Off with it's head!

[username]

I think everything has "feelings". Not that it stops me from ending its life.
Maybe I am sadistic but there is nothing like riping the still harm heart out of a animal that was minutes ago standing there looking at you.

I'm a hypocrite. I love a good burger but I could never hunt/shoot an animal.

[Carsman]

I don't think we have horseshoe crabs, at least I don't think I've ever seen one. The little white ones that burrow in the sand are the ones I'm talking about. I saw Andrew Zimmerman eating them somewhere on Bizarre foods and he said they were delicious, but I don't know if I'd trust him.

Yeah I wouldn't trust him either, I saw that guy eat "bull's end trails", and he said they were ok! I didn't even want to watch him eat them!

Anyway, "what if", have lots of cash on hand, (hidden) have fire proof box with all important papers, & sentimental photos, can fix most anything, can and have grown veggie gardens, do have a well, thus always have a dozen or so 35 bottle cases of water on hand, can get hands on a bike of need be, have a sawed off 12 ga and alots of ammo, so. . . . . . .

[sally]

Not smarter than Max! C'mon!

I've never felt protective of a fish like I do the animals. There's no emotion there. Off with it's head!

Trust me, if you had an aquarium you would feel different. They become pets almost like a dog or cat.

I had a zebra eel that would come up to the tank everytime I walked by and he would let me pet him and eat out of my hand. He somehow got sucked down into the filter and stuck in one of the tubes so I had to call the guy that cleans my aquariums to get him out. When he got him out his head was mutilated. I wanted to kill him and end his misery, but I couldn't do it. He died two days later and I cried untill I had a migraine headache.

[Cynical Ninja]

I know how to shoot and hunt wild animals whether I would want to given a shortage of food now is another story.

To feed my family i wouldn't hesistate given there was no other option but now I wouldn't given the option.

As a family without electricity we would survive mother and father both know a word or two about survival in the wild.

[username]

As a family without electricity we would survive mother and father both know a word or two about survival in the wild.

Yeah. "Help me".

[Cynical Ninja]

As a family without electricity we would survive mother and father both know a word or two about survival in the wild.

Yeah. "Help me".

Oh please my father was in the paratroop regiment for 14 years and my mother is as tough as old boots. If everything did go pear shaped it is far more likely that they would be saving your white bread ass.

[Duchess]

I think the end of the world as we know it might be my best chance yet at procuring slaves. Oh yeah.

[Donovan]

As a family without electricity we would survive mother and father both know a word or two about survival in the wild.

Yeah. "Help me".

Oh please my father was in the paratroop regiment for 14 years and my mother is as tough as old boots. If everything did go pear shaped it is far more likely that they would be saving your white bread ass.

CN you're overseas yeah? Is there really much wilderness to speak of in the UK? We're kinda used to large swaths of more or less wild land still even with all we've done to murder the indigenous creatures and people. The place is still lousy with 'em. All I know about killing animals over there is that the King gets real pissed if you kill his deer and makes you live in the woods and be an outlaw and wear Kelly Green blouses and shit...

[Cynical Ninja]

There's loads of forests, grasslands, moors and dales in the UK. In the county i live in Northumberland the vast majority of the land is rural and unspoiled with only a few towns crammed in the bottom south east corner near Newcastle. We have a tradition of hunting, fishing and living off the land that far outdates the same traditions in modern America. The only people in America who can match our depth and length of history of living off the land are the real Americans the native indigenous tribes.

We used to have dangerous animals living in the UK like wolves and bears and wild boar but they were wiped out. There has been some talk of reintroducing wolves into Scotland.

[F.U.]

I just did a quick search of OP's location and WOW, that sounds like a nice area.



Northumberland has been the site of a number of battles. The county is noted for its undeveloped landscape of high moorland, a favourite with landscape painters, and now largely protected as a National Park. Northumberland is the most sparsely populated county in England, with only 62 people per square kilometre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumberland

[Duchess]

only 62 people per square kilometre.

That's my kinda place!

[F.U.]

I'm a hypocrite. I love a good burger but I could never hunt/shoot an animal.

I had seen this video and read the back story on it before.
Odd part about that buck attacking the guy is that the man was stupid enough to use doe in estrus as a lure by dumping it on himself. No wonder the buck attacked, he wanted a little tail.