He stepped on a spider

She'll sometimes chew them and spit them out,I've often wondered if some of them are a little too bitter.

I don't get chance to release them,our dog is quite partial to an eight legged snack.

@WickedSerious My cat thought the same but it was a one-time only experience. Her face almost turned inside out. Must have tasted disgusting!

Serves it right, then! 😂

The passenger side mirror and back handle are favourite with mine! One made the fatal error of moving into my shopping bag that lives in the boot, and emerging while I was in Aldi packing stuff.

Oh no. Not between the cars! Our spiders are much more refined than that! They set up shop inside your rear vision mirror and drive you mad when you get up each morning and find more webs!😂

I don't get chance to release them,our dog is quite partial to an eight legged snack.

Circle of life can also be I kill you before you kill me!

I just started to google can house spiders survive...and the first search result that came up was "can house spiders survive outside UK"...I think maybe many on here looked into it! The answer is no! So catch and release is less humane than a quick heel stomp death. It seems your options are either a heel stomp or personal pet.

I might agree with the 'circle of life' comment if the fucker had eaten it.

The land of the white-tail spiders and leaf-curlers trying to set up home between parked cars!

Well this an eye opening thread! I literally just killed a spider running across my floor. It's the third one this weekend so I just set a reminder to call my pestie.

I don't enjoy it. But I'm not chasing every little spider I see to put it outside!!

The ick for me is purely that he squished it then didn't clean up the mess.

Welcome to Australia.

Your average house spider won’t survive outdoors, so by putting it out you’re condemning it to a slow death. Same with mice with humane traps when you release a few miles down the road into a field. It’s not going to end well. You may as well kill it quick and get it over and done with.

@TheLadyofShalott1 apologies. I was speaking specifically about killing living things that just want to get on with their lives. If an animal is suffering, of course I believe the best thing to do would be to put it to sleep.

YANBU!! He is callous and mean, and you can do much better.

Would depend. I kill nasty ones with no hesitation, and we get a lot of these in. Others I take out.

This. I’m shaking my head at the posters claiming to think it’s sanctimonious to take issue with the attitude he brought to it. That was the very thing OP was talking about.

I hate hate spiders and I kill them. What would turn me off is his glee of killing it. Seems unnecessary and makes me think he has a cold side to him. If he’d stomped on it out of fear then kept it moving I wouldn’t think twice about it.

Hopefully all these spider killers will be squished the same in their next life.

Then what about when we have our beloved pets put to sleep? You seem to be saying that even that is an inhumane way?

"Ofcourse there are more painful ways to kill an animal, but there is absolutely no humane way"

I can't agree with you there @RunningUpThatMill.

Amen. There is no humane way to kill an animal that doesn't want to die and there is no humane way to kill the offspring of an animal who is of no use, but also doesn't want to die. Of course there are more painful ways to kill an animal, but there is absolutely no humane way.

There is no humane knife that slits their throat,but I see what you mean.

Sorry all, he'd be my hero.

I think there is a difference. Mammals are classed as sentient beings. Our cattle, sheep and pigs have some intelligence and are able to feel pain. Whilst I wouldn't kill anything not classified as being sentient on purpose, I'm aware that I will do it inadvertently, and I certainly wouldn't be tucking into anything that contained animals or animal produce either.

Whilst an animal that is reared for food might not know or care where I draw the moral line, I certainly do.

I don't kill anything. It's humane relocations only here.

But I think Joe Average is probably more likely to be accepting of killing things that they unthinkingly perceive to be 'dirty'.

I usually have to get rid of spiders although I'm the one that's scared of them. Killing is the last resort, usually a glass jar dropped over and a sheet of paper/card pushed under and spider in a jar, take outside and release. If it's about to run under the bed it might not be so lucky, sorry spider.

The comment was a bit crass, maybe he was trying to lighten the moment, but not appealing. Why didn't anyone else try to catch it?

I'd be done with him. There's just no need. I'm not interested in being with someone who does not value other lives, and that includes animals.

You may be being hypocritical if you are not at least vegetarian though. Animals killed for meat are way more self-aware than spiders are.