should certain animals be made instinct?

[Saint Frankenstein]

6. Domesticated Cats

As cute and fluffy as they are, they are one of the most evil, vicious and cruel sadistic hunters out there, that will kill anything for 'sport'.

Cats are the only creatures besides humans (and sharks) who will actually kill for pleasure and they make no discrimination. An Indian Mynah (another creature on my 'animals for extinction list') or a rainbow lorikeet...a mouse (that too) or a tiny opossum, it makes no difference to a cat.

Some (most) councils in Australia require domesticated cats to be either kept indoors, or locked up in a cage outside.

I always feel sorry and sad when I see those cats locked up in cages, but I fully understand why they are, and the alternative is much worse...but still, it would be better if cats just...didn't exist at all.

As sad as it is, yeah, let's make cats extinct.

Yeah, no. I like my cats better than most humans. They've treated me better than most humans have, too.

By the way, it was humans who bred the domesticated cat. Almost all your examples are the fault of humans. So you're just adding more reasons for humans to go extinct.

 

[NobodyYouKnow]

I love cats too, don't get me wrong, I am trying to approach this from an ecological, conservative viewpoint (ignoring the obvious fact that human beings should be made extinct).

Do you get my approach now?

 

[NobodyYouKnow]

7. Puffer Fish

The height of an evolutionary oxymoron (and a fisherman's worst nightmare if one ever swallows your hook).

Why bother to have all those spines and the ability to blow itself up like a balloon, when the flesh is deadly poison anyway? (even to sea creatures that would even try to eat it)?

Such things like this should be totally off the Japanese menu.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I love cats too, don't get me wrong, I am trying to approach this from an ecological, conservative viewpoint (ignoring the obvious fact that human beings should be made extinct).

Do you get my approach now?

I get it. To be honest, I've never understood why cats torture their prey. They all have individual ways of playing around with them before they kill them or the prey finally dies. Very strange.

 

[psychoslice]

If you want to eliminate dangerous animals, go after humans. We're the greatest danger to ourselves the earth has.

Hey, I was going to say that, so true.

 

[psychoslice]

I get it. To be honest, I've never understood why cats torture their prey. They all have individual ways of playing around with them before they kill them or the prey finally dies. Very strange.

It could be because they are domesticated, because they are feed well the prey isn't that important to them, but if they were in the wild and truly needed to hunt for their food, I think it would quickly be down their throat.

 

[columbus]

It could be because they are domesticated, because they are feed well the prey isn't that important to them, but if they were in the wild and truly needed to hunt for their food, I think it would quickly be down their throat.

Exactly.
Cats aren't very domesticated, really. They are still wild creatures who have the instinct ti kill. But humans put them into artificial environments where the feline instincts just don't work. You can't teach a cat not to be a cat.

Humans need to be more attentative to their pets and realistic about their characteristics. We need to be responsible for the choices we make, not our pets.

Tom

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Exactly.
Cats aren't very domesticated, really. They are still wild creatures who have the instinct ti kill. But humans put them into artificial environments where the feline instincts just don't work. You can't teach a cat not to be a cat.

Humans need to be more attentative to their pets and realistic about their characteristics. We need to be responsible for the choices we make, not our pets.

Tom

That's a good point. But this isn't so much about the predatory instincts as the torturing or "playing" with the prey. I understand being a predator. Almost all of my pets are carnivores. Actually all of my pets are carnivores except for the rabbit. The goldfish are my mom's.

 

[psychoslice]

I use to have snakes, but I just couldn't put up with the way they kill their prey, those poor little rats eye's popping out.

 

[NobodyYouKnow]

I use to have snakes, but I just couldn't put up with the way they kill their prey, those poor little rats eye's popping out.

I used to have snakes as pets too, and I would enjoy watching them devouring mice whole (I owned two diamond pythons).

Snakes are nature's way of keeping the rodent population down and I guess if I took a swing at mice, I'd have to look at snakes then, so I'll leave mice alone - for now, even though we are having plagues of them in the outback.

Snakes are nature's way of controlling other 'pests', much like spiders are (so I leave spiders alone too)...I don't like spiders at all, but they are - necessary.

If I had to choose a snake to make extinct though, it would be this one:

8. Australian Taipan

Now, most snakes will only bite you if you step on them or get in their way. This is the only freaking snake that will smell you and hunt you for miles just to bite you.

Its poison is the most deadliest out there, and it's a stealth 'killing machine' - yet another thing that doesn't always eat its prey and nothing else out there will eat it.

I don't think the world will miss just one species of snake...

 

[kloth]

We can't go around making animals we don't like extinct. That would destroy the earth far quicker than any man-made skullduggery.

this has nothing to do with making certain animals extinct because we don't like them.

What are you going on about?

never mind

I still say that if we're going to make any animal extinct, make it humans.

that would include you as well. but now that I think of it, cows, chickens, pigs, etc. would probably agree with you. I say some humans should be made extinct.

We probably deserve extinction the most. Evidence: Justin Bieber.

who's that? just kidding. I know who he is.

I use to have snakes, but I just couldn't put up with the way they kill their prey, those poor little rats eye's popping out.

why watch?