Found out something about my friend

[frankiesamson]

A good friend of mine I've known for over a decade, whom I see almost every day, who supported me through some of my life's toughest times & I don't think I could have survived without her... and vice versa, opened up to me tonight about something apparently no one other than her has ever known about.

I promised her I wouldn't judge and that she could tell me anything.

Then she told me: during her divorce many years ago (her husband left her for someone else), her husband was out on a date with someone else & she felt so desperate she wanted him to come home to her. In order to get his attention, she told him their pet guinie pig had died (a lie). He agreed to come home.

So that he wouldn't discover the deception, she killed the pet. She was so ashamed she never told anyone.

How would / should one react?

She may not be a serial killer. But it is seriously NOT normal to kill because you're marriage is ending!!!

Hairy little thing aren’t they....🤔

Particularly hirsute in the hand paw region.

We do not know how the GP was murdered

A GP is just a fluffy rodent, so maybe she used one of the various methods most people use to kill rodents in their house.

That's disgusting.

We do not know how the GP was murdered

Why does that bake any difference? She could have taken it to a rescue and dug an empty hole in the garden.

A GP is just a fluffy rodent, so maybe she used one of the various methods most people use to kill rodents in their house.

It would need to have been staged to look like natural causes.* Unless they had a cat.

(*not serious)

It is impossible to murder an animal

Great thread OP. I’m not sure who is telling the porkies here, but she didn’t actually kill her guinea pig.

It’s a Guinea pig.

Is it guinea pigs that are hairy and live under bridges, or am I thinking of another animal?

I wonder whether the size of the animal involved and the effort it would have taken to kill it has any bearing on people's responses?

If it hadn't been Squeaky the guinea pig but Rover the Labrador or Pixie the Shetland pony who'd gotten the chop, would people still be giving it "oh well, she was upset because her marriage was ending/must have had PTSD, etc, etc"?

What if it was Sammy the spider or William the woodlouse?

What if it was Sammy the spider or William the woodlouse?

Don't think I've ever come across a woodlouse nor heard of anyone who kept one as a pet but my conscience is clear as far as spiders (pets or otherwise) go. Can't abide it when people start swatting at them.

Guinea pigs are eaten as food in Cusco Peru. I was offered some but declined as i don't particularly like rodents.

I could still be friends with her. It was an extreme way to get his attention. I don't think i could do it myself. Maybe she wasn't that attached to the rodent so it didn't feel too wrong to her I could probably kill a goldfish if I had to and to be fair if I had to kill my own food I would probably go veggie.

Well, Mumsnet Madness has picked this up on twitter, so you’ve betrayed her confidence to even more ppl.

I am veggie so presumably according to the MN judge and jury I am allowed to take a position on this, which is...

The posters on here who couldn't possibly be friends with the GP killer, how does that work?

Presumably if you eat meat, that involves the slaughter of innocent lambs, cattle, poultry etc. Or is it somehow different because you don't see all that nasty stuff going on and by the time your succulent piece of flesh is served on your plate, all the ghastly business of killing it is somehow so far removed, you don't have to deal with.....

Even if the OP has vanished into thin air, the debate is still an interesting one...

The posters on here who couldn't possibly be friends with the GP killer, how does that work?
Sometimes you find out something that totally changes your view of someone. I’m vegan so presumably allowed to hold that opinion. I would be the same with someone who went fox hunting.

I think it's fine as long as she ate the guinea pig make soup from its bones and perhaps a nice little hat from its fur
Obviously also she would have needed to kill it humanely with nice music playing

kikisparks I absolutely love all your posts, not just this thread but you always say what I'm thinking.

I just find it strange that people find it easier to empathise with a Guinea pig than a human being. Yeah, she was completely wrong. Desperation will do weird things to you.

I'm a vegetarian by the way.

Presumably if you eat meat, that involves the slaughter of innocent lambs, cattle, poultry etc. Or is it somehow different because you don't see all that nasty stuff going on and by the time your succulent piece of flesh is served on your plate, all the ghastly business of killing it is somehow so far removed, you don't have to deal with.....

Well said daisychain

"Presumably if you eat meat, that involves the slaughter of innocent lambs, cattle, poultry etc. Or is it somehow different because you don't see all that nasty stuff going on and by the time your succulent piece of flesh is served on your plate, all the ghastly business of killing it is somehow so far removed, you don't have to deal with....."

I don't eat meat, and even I can see that animals that are part of any food chain are a little bit different to a household pet that has been killed deliberately for no reason.

Also how are everybody else's quotes in bold? 🤷‍♀️

Yes that was my point. We had rabbits and our girls would recoil whenever we saw rabbit on a menu. Our rabbits definitely had personalities. I am not soppy over animals but was touched by how good a mother our doe was when she accidentally had babies. But we happily eat other animals while fussing over our chosen rabbits. Seemed incongruous to me but don’t feel hugely strongly.

They eat GPs in a Peru I couldn’t bring myself to though travelling companion did