Vermingate

[2andout]

Would love to get opinions on who was BU in this situation. So a colleague discovered a badly injured baby animal of a species that is considered vermin. I suggested, albeit somewhat flippantly, that the kindest thing to do would be to put it out of its suffering as quickly as possible. My colleagues disagreed and instead decided to call the RSPCA, which I consider a waste of their limited resources & will only prolong the suffering of the animal. One of my colleagues was very upset by my suggestion & felt it was appropriate to tell me off in front of everyone else. I felt bad for having upset her, but when I later apologised, she merely told me off again. So who was BU?

Yanbu why let the poor thing suffer like you said it's what the rspca would do anyway!

YABU for considering the 'vermin' status as making a difference, but may not be U for the rest of the weighing-up. However, your logic was harsher than people use on other people and pets (surrogate-people) which are the only living animals many come across in this role, so the others were also not being U in treating the animal in the way they are used to rather than as you were suggesting.

You don't throw a person's apology back them - she's out of order. What animal was it?

Thanks for responses.
wowfudge don't want to say exactly what animal otherwise would be too identifying. But something that there's lots of and is considered a pest.

Yanbu. I don't personally attach importance to whether it's officially vermin before deciding it's fate. But even if it is possibly treatable, if you aren't killing it yourself, there is something to be said for the fact the rspca, or even a useful animal charity aren't going to waste funds trying to treat rats or mice. They'll just kill it when they arrive. However I would never prolong an animals suffering just so I could feel all warm and fuzzy inside as your colleagues wished. In fairness though they probably said it through ignorance, not cruelty.