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Taking wings off dead fly = psychopath?

101 replies

gezelligheid · 11/02/2023 20:05

I sprayed a housefly with spray and left it to die. Later I've come back and it has no wings. Although he denies it, I know DS11 removed the wings. When I asked about it he got nervous and started laughing and denied it.

Should I be worried that he is pulling the wings off a dead fly? Is it psychopath behaviour?

YABU - not psychopath behaviour
YANBU - psychopath behaviour

OP posts:
Spanisheomellletttes · 11/02/2023 20:25

I meant, they never visited her house again.

TheSnowyOwl · 11/02/2023 20:25

So you callously killed it, in a possibly prolonged and painful way. Yet his curiously is concerning you that he might be a psychopath? 🤔

Wiluli · 11/02/2023 20:27

Good ness me are you for real ? He is a kid and it was already dead . Are you worried with other behaviour ? If not just forget about it

Original poster
gezelligheid · 11/02/2023 20:28

Thank you all for pointing out that fly spray is not a good way to deal with flies. I wasn't aware so now that I am I won't use it again.

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RagzRebooted · 11/02/2023 20:29

WhiteArsenic · 11/02/2023 20:14

I used to cut open my pet hamsters after they’d died to see what they looked like inside. I became a vet, rather than a psychopath. There’s a big difference between gruesome curiosity and cruelty. If it’s already dead, there’s no cruelty. If it’s still alive … that’s different.

We have a dead mouse in the freezer because D(12 at the time) wanted it kept so she could learn taxidermy... She's since decided she's too squeamish and has started buying animal skulls on Etsy instead.
I should probably fish that mouse out of the freezer now.

QueenCamilla · 11/02/2023 20:30

I also know that if you take a frog and a straw... And blow in the... Ermmm... hole lightly.... then the frog can't dive for a few minutes, it just floats 😳

I didn't do that though, I watched, if that helps my (head) case!

XenoBitch · 11/02/2023 20:31

Spanisheomellletttes · 11/02/2023 20:24

There was a girl in my son's class who not only removed the wings off a fly, she kept it alive - as a pet. That disturbed my kids so much that they never went back. I still wonder how she is turning out. There were some serious problems at her home.

Surely, the fly is then a 'walk'?
Sorry, could not resist.

QueenCamilla · 11/02/2023 20:34

Lol, this thread! Some shady characters here!

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:35

We have a dead mouse in the freezer because D(12 at the time) wanted it kept so she could learn taxidermy... She's since decided she's too squeamish and has started buying animal skulls on Etsy instead.
I should probably fish that mouse out of the freezer now.

Thats vile. Unhygenic doesn't even begin to describe this.

TheSnowyOwl · 11/02/2023 20:36

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:35

We have a dead mouse in the freezer because D(12 at the time) wanted it kept so she could learn taxidermy... She's since decided she's too squeamish and has started buying animal skulls on Etsy instead.
I should probably fish that mouse out of the freezer now.

Thats vile. Unhygenic doesn't even begin to describe this.

Where you do think owners of mice eating reptiles store their pets food? It’s quite normal for snakes to eat mice that have been defrosted from a family freezer. The temperature stops it being unhygienic.

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:37

Where you do think owners of mice eating reptiles store their pets food? It’s quite normal for snakes to eat mice that have been defrosted from a family freezer. The temperature stops it being unhygienic.

So owners of reptiles find pest mice that have been crawling through God knows what and freeze them?

EilonwyWithRedGoldHair · 11/02/2023 20:38

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:35

We have a dead mouse in the freezer because D(12 at the time) wanted it kept so she could learn taxidermy... She's since decided she's too squeamish and has started buying animal skulls on Etsy instead.
I should probably fish that mouse out of the freezer now.

Thats vile. Unhygenic doesn't even begin to describe this.

Really? I'd assume it was in a separate bag, not just thrown in with the chips...

lemonsaretheonlyfruit · 11/02/2023 20:39

I didn't know fly spray was bad so I have learnt something today too!
How about Maggots? I got them in my bin last year when it was really hot (it was horrible they made me feel sick) and now I'm wondering how I should have got rid of them. Google searching told me to use bleach and boiling water.

XenoBitch · 11/02/2023 20:40

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:35

We have a dead mouse in the freezer because D(12 at the time) wanted it kept so she could learn taxidermy... She's since decided she's too squeamish and has started buying animal skulls on Etsy instead.
I should probably fish that mouse out of the freezer now.

Thats vile. Unhygenic doesn't even begin to describe this.

Why is a dead mouse unhygienic (in a freezer, where harmful bacteria will not thrive), when your dead chicken breasts are not?

I used to have lizards that ate mice. Mice were stored in the freezer, in their separate bags.

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:43

Why is a dead mouse unhygienic (in a freezer, where harmful bacteria will not thrive), when your dead chicken breasts are not?

Not that I eat chicken but is this a serious question?

I'm yet to see someone find a pest chicken making their way into houses and stuffing it in a bag and putting it in the freezer, or is that how Sainsbury's sell them?

TheSnowyOwl · 11/02/2023 20:44

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:37

Where you do think owners of mice eating reptiles store their pets food? It’s quite normal for snakes to eat mice that have been defrosted from a family freezer. The temperature stops it being unhygienic.

So owners of reptiles find pest mice that have been crawling through God knows what and freeze them?

Sometimes, yes. Not all mice are bred as food. I remember a friend working at a school that had a huge mice problem and the caretaker would pass them on got the animal club teachers to feed to the snakes.

WhiteArsenic · 11/02/2023 20:45

NeedMoMoney · 11/02/2023 20:21

If you cut one open...why did you have to keep cutting others open! How many hamsters did you have!!!

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I used to breed them, so I had lots as a teenager, well over twenty, probably opened up two or three? It was about forty years ago so I really can’t remember. I was studying biology and wanted to learn how bodies worked. At that time teenagers dissected all sorts of things in A level biology. Things have changed since.

tothelefttotheleft · 11/02/2023 20:45

Can't we teach children not to hurt living things? I don't understand lots of behaviour described on this thread or people seemingly feeling it's normal to hurt another creature.

XenoBitch · 11/02/2023 20:47

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:43

Why is a dead mouse unhygienic (in a freezer, where harmful bacteria will not thrive), when your dead chicken breasts are not?

Not that I eat chicken but is this a serious question?

I'm yet to see someone find a pest chicken making their way into houses and stuffing it in a bag and putting it in the freezer, or is that how Sainsbury's sell them?

Mice sold for pet food are no more "sterile". You can not sterilise a living thing, and you can't sterilise a dead animal that is still intact and in one piece.

I know people who hunt and shoot pheasant and rabbits.. they get chucked in the freezer too. I have not heard of any of them getting ill due to game animals contaminating the chips also stored in their freezer.

TheSnowyOwl · 11/02/2023 20:47

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:43

Why is a dead mouse unhygienic (in a freezer, where harmful bacteria will not thrive), when your dead chicken breasts are not?

Not that I eat chicken but is this a serious question?

I'm yet to see someone find a pest chicken making their way into houses and stuffing it in a bag and putting it in the freezer, or is that how Sainsbury's sell them?

A dead animal in the freezer, is a dead animal in the freezer. It makes no difference if it was a pest of not.

We have people releasing their chickens around here (can’t have too many cockerels in your garden) so yes, I have been known to have pest chicken in my freezer along with many in my village.

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:49

Pardon me, I thought store-bought chicken breasts would be cleaner given they have been cut, skinned and packaged than a dead pest mouse.

Nagado · 11/02/2023 20:51

If we’re being pedantic, I’m not sure how what he did was any different from what you did. Fly spray wouldn’t have sent the fly off to a gentle passing in its sleep. I’m assuming you aren’t worried about your own psychopathic tendencies?

TheSnowyOwl · 11/02/2023 20:53

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:49

Pardon me, I thought store-bought chicken breasts would be cleaner given they have been cut, skinned and packaged than a dead pest mouse.

The freezer ensures they are all as clean as each other, regardless of the origins.

XenoBitch · 11/02/2023 20:54

user40643 · 11/02/2023 20:49

Pardon me, I thought store-bought chicken breasts would be cleaner given they have been cut, skinned and packaged than a dead pest mouse.

The breasts would be in a bag, as would the mouse... and both in an environment where harmful bacteria will not thrive. What is the problem?

SnottyLottie · 11/02/2023 20:55

Do you ever wish you could unread a thread? 🥺