Do you get a really awful feeling in your body at the moment right after

[MamaBearTeacher]

You kill an insect? Like something very sad has happened because you ended a life?

I just kill insects in my home.

[Cinder]

No, unless it squished and I have to clean it up.

[Aura]

No, but I had to remove a barn swallow nest (no eggs) from my porch eaves. I felt bad about that. They had put so much work into it! But, dang it, stop pooping all over my porch!!! They're going to have to find someone else to build their nest.

[creekland]

No, especially if it's a mosquito or biting fly of any sort.

 

We actually let spiders live since they are good critters (not insects, but I assume still what you're talking about in general).  We just move spiders outside somewhere if they're bugging us inside.

[Jean in Newcastle]

No, I don't feel badly.  I do move spiders, and stink bugs and lady bugs and even wasps outside if I can catch them with a glass and a piece of cardboard slid underneath.  If I can't, or the spider is too big (sorry, wolf spiders) then they get killed with no compunction at all because they were dumb enough to enter my domain.  

[maize]

Mosquitoes, flies, and wasps inside my house I have no pity for. Black widow spiders and scorpions either.

 

Anything else I leave alone.

[myfunnybunch]

Only if I hear it pop when I squish it. Bleah.

[Chrysalis Academy]

Wow, I can honestly say that is *not* how I thought that sentence was going to end!  :lol:

[Guest]

Not one iota. I don't kill them outside and will try to move them if they're not poisonous, but I have the health and safety of my family to consider. A spider about to crawl on my infant? Even with my enormous arachnophobia I instantly spring to squash it and feel not a moment of guilt.

[DawnM]

No.  I did feel bad about the squirrel I accidentally killed last week though.

[Jenny in Florida]

Yes, I do. I dislike killing anything and will generally try to remove insects rather than kill them. The exception here is roaches, ubiquitous in Florida. I do kill them, although I still feel bad about it when I watch their little legs wiggling futilely. 

 

My son has to leave the room while I kill them, because it bothers him so much.

[Ausmumof3]

Not me... It I did I'd probably be severely depressed because it's a constant event around here. If they are outside doing their thing I prefer to leave them be.

 

We have a bit of war in the house because my son always wants to kill the bugs and my daughter always wants to catch and release them outside.

[SparklyUnicorn]

If you cross my path in my home, it is fair game.  If you are minding your own business outside, I'll leave you alone.

 

So..no.

 

 

[SKL]

I don't like killing them, and I'll release them to the outside if I can.  Or just leave them be.  Though sometimes I have to do the evil deed, and it is a gross feeling.

Somehow using ant poison doesn't feel as bad to me.

[HRAAB]

Insects - nope. Spiders - nope. My dds will move spiders outside. My dh just sprayed the outside perimeter of the house for spiders. I'm fairly certain he felt no guilt.

[SparklyUnicorn]

I don't like killing mice though.  I use humane traps for those.

 

 

[Mergath]

Yes, which is why I don't kill them unless it's a hornet/wasp/etc, which dh is allergic to. (Bees I try to gently shoo out the door.)  Spiders I've learned to live with and just leave them inside. Mosquitoes I swat, but I don't enjoy it. 

[kewb]

Spiders get released unless the dog spots it first. Stink bugs get relocated, too. Anything else, if you enter my home you take your chances. Outside I leave them alone unless they are trying to bite/sting me.

[Guest]

I don't like killing, but house spiders do not survive long outside and it's not a nice way to die so it is definitely kinder to euthanize them quickly if there is some compelling reason why you can't "just wave as they go by."

[AimeeM]

Not really.

First I explain to the now deceased that we (him and I) had an agreement (you don't bother me; I won't bother you) and that had he held up his end of the agreement, he wouldn't now be riding the water slide (i.e. the toilet).

Unfortunately, the ants are a few watts short on the bright-o-meter which means I have the conversation often.

 

[KrissiK]

If it's a fly or a mosquito.... No! But if I accidentally kill a praying mantis or a lady bug, then.... Yes!

[hornblower]

I try hard not to kill anything.

[J-rap]

No, never.  Though as long as it's not a mosquito or fly, my husband always carefully catches it and puts it outside.

[Guest]

So funny you posted this.  I just let a little beetle crawl away to who knows where because I felt bad about squishing it.  

 

I do kill spiders, but I always feel a little sad about it.

 

Bees and things that will hurt are different.  I fell less bad about that.

[Guest]

This just reminded me of a funny/sad story.  Our youngest (he's a toddler) found a mosquito eater before we noticed.  I turned and saw him tossing something up in the air, then I saw it fluttering down to the floor, and then he would toss it up again (and of course it fluttered back down).  Apparently, he decided to play with it and accidentally killed it.  He didn't understand why it wouldn't fly again.  

[blondeviolin]

No guilt here at all. :) Though, my son will rush to scoop it up and take it out if I ask.