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What annoys you most?; Rant here if you need to!
Topic Started: Mar 3 2013, 08:45 AM (309,720 Views)
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Flower
Oct 31 2013, 12:03 PM
You are very kind. :3 It is very annoying when I go to a Extinct creatures museum and the people over there point at a Chalicotherium and say:

"Oh, look ! I giant Dinosaur !"

I become so angry at such times.
Do I look like a dinosaur? O.o
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Flower
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eternal finessé

I didn't mean you ! xD xD
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extremos
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Where's Mr Pig?

The whole Beagle incident here in Brazil, I don't know if you guys heard about it, but recently in Brazil some guys broke in and vandalized a lab, and stole many Beagles that were being used for tests, and for me that was a terrible act of vandalism. Why? Well, Mice, Rats and other small animals have been tested on for years, but has anyone (In Brazil) ever protested? No. Now, when people found out that cutesy lovely friendly beagles were being used for tests everyone destroyed the lab and took them away. Now, that's something I REALLY hate, if we're talking about testing or hurting chickens or rats nobody gives a damn, now if you say someone hr or tested a cat or a dog people get mad and start protesting, I think that's bull$#!% (Sorry for the word, this REALLY annoys me), I mean just because an animal is domesticated or cute does it mean it can't be hurt like wild animal are? OF COURSE NOT!
It's like that time when a young boy fed his Python a young cat, and everyone went into a rampage, and the boy even got arrested, and people said: "Oh why feed the snake a cat?" "Oh that's cruel!", my only comment was "Well the snake needs to eat!" then everyone started to say "But he should have fed her a mice or a chicken! Not a cat!". That made me FURIOUS, how come it's nice to feed the snake a rat, beut it's not to feed her a cat? THEY'RE BOTH ANIMALS!
That really annoys me, when people always defend dogs and cats above the other animals, it's not because I'm not fond of those two species, it's because they're equal to other animals, yet everyne treats them like us, while other animals are treated like junk!
And even worse is that, since now that this company has lost all of it's test animals, we'll have to pay companies from other countries to do them for us, which will cost our country and the people's money.
But after all I might be getting a little hot headed here, of course it's fine to chop off a snake's head because "Snakes are evil", to poison rats, to kill heprehensile tailed porcupines because they defended themselves from your dog, it's also nice to watch a cat deliver you a ripped corpse of a dead bird, it's nice to shoot down Jaguars because they tried to steal your cattle, and it's also nice to nice to kill and hate sharks because "They are killer sons of a b!%@# that kill people", but if you test a Beagle you should be demonized and have your company invaded, destroyed and vandalized. :P
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Speaking of animal bullcrap, the fact that Jaws came out in 1975 and people still think that sharks are malicious harbingers of evil. Yes, Jaws is a good movie and has stood the test of time, but that doesn't mean the behavior of the shark in the movie is realistic. Sharks, from what I've heard, absolutely hate the taste of humans and only eat them if they mistake them for seals. Particularly great whites. And I'm not even going to go into detail about shark fin soup, but I'll give you the gist of it: People from China and Japan (The land of cutting off animal body parts) have been cutting off shark fins and then throwing the sharks back in the ocean. What I wanna know is, if people actually make steak out of sharks (Yes, that's true), then why don't they just use the rest of the sharks for steak?
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feeding a cat to a python is a bad thing, because cats have claws and teeth that can harm the python.
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

Rats are smarter than cats and just as capable of feeling emotions and pain.

They also have just as bad if not a much worse bite.
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I highly doubt it, mice are much smaller, they have nasty bites but they're small enough that their teeth wouldn't do too much to a snake, though I imagine they can fight back but a cat would fight back much more and be able to do much more damage unless either were already killed beforehand. Mice indeed are smarter than most animals but they also reproduce in mass amounts but in the wild are considered pests, meanwhile cats and dogs are considered family/pets.

I do know that some people keep mice as pets but they are a minority. It's not strange for people to think more highly of an animal they see as a friend than an animal they fear getting in their home and contaminating their food.
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Azrael
Oct 31 2013, 05:14 PM
I highly doubt it, mice are much smaller, they have nasty bites but they're small enough that their teeth wouldn't do too much to a snake, though I imagine they can fight back but a cat would fight back much more and be able to do much more damage unless either were already killed beforehand. Mice indeed are smarter than most animals but they also reproduce in mass amounts but in the wild are considered pests, meanwhile cats and dogs are considered family/pets.

I do know that some people keep mice as pets but they are a minority. It's not strange for people to think more highly of an animal they see as a friend than an animal they fear getting in their home and contaminating their food.
Pythons have been known to be severely mauled by live mice in captivity. They often have to be put to sleep.
Edited by Fluffs, Oct 31 2013, 05:19 PM.
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Stephen
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Mice aren't the same as rats, Azrael.
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To the average person there isn't much difference, field mice still destroy crops etc. I'm not saying I condone it, I'm just saying it makes sense people aren't as excited about saving mice than they are about saving a dog or a cat which have been bred purposely to be companions to people.

And I know snakes have been mauled by rats but then again, most of those snakes are also in confined spaces where they can't act or move as freely as they naturally would have. I don't think I've ever heard of wild pythons being mauled to death by mice, it's likely their girth not being able to move around as easily in the terrarium to kill live mice.
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Where's Mr Pig?

Well if I'm not wrong the cat was sleepy or something and couldn't fight back, so I don't think that it could have harmed the snake, but my point is that no matter if it's a cat, a rat or a chicken, animals should be seen equally, and not pets first, "bad critters" afterwards.
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Azrael
Oct 31 2013, 05:14 PM
I highly doubt it, mice are much smaller, they have nasty bites but they're small enough that their teeth wouldn't do too much to a snake, though I imagine they can fight back but a cat would fight back much more and be able to do much more damage unless either were already killed beforehand. Mice indeed are smarter than most animals but they also reproduce in mass amounts but in the wild are considered pests, meanwhile cats and dogs are considered family/pets.

I do know that some people keep mice as pets but they are a minority. It's not strange for people to think more highly of an animal they see as a friend than an animal they fear getting in their home and contaminating their food.
He's talking about rats, not about mice. Rats are completely different, they actually can form a bond with their owners in the way that a cat or a dog can. They're just as smart as other companion pets, if not smarter. That's another thing that annoys me, people who think rats are "hobby pets" like other small rodents rather than companions.
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One of you says rats, and the other says mice. I don't agree with feeding live anything to any other pet of your's. I'm not saying people don't have mice or rats as pets, but they are not a majority, that is a fact. It's a fact that more people have dogs and cats as pets and humans are emotional and are attached to their companions rather than wild animals.

But I don't feel you should favor over the other either, I believe testing on any animal is wrong, whether it be rat, rabbit, dog, cat, turtle, monkey what-have-you.

You all act like I said that I wanted all rodent animals dead or something.
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Stephen
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Indeed, seems like TFR switched mice with rats, not you (I hadn't seen his comment, I'm sorry)
@TFR: It is not possible that a python has been mauled by a mouse. I even doubt smaller snakes can, but a python's 100% impossible ;)
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

Rats and mice are as different as dogs and mice, really, as far as their behaviors and capabilities.

I don't agree with the live feeding of any mammal or bird to any other animal whether it's a puppy or a mouse.
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