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Sat 28 Feb, 2009 06:36 am
Thwangggggg!
A large robin smacked right into one of the bay windows.
It was dead instantly, blood seeping out its beak; major brain hemorrhage.
My wife demanded I immediately pick it up and put it in the garbage, so the dog would not eat it.
I obeyed, but not because I thought the dog would eat the dead thing, but because my wife gets frantic about minor deaths and expects an immediate resolution.
@Chumly,
All deaths diminish us, even the moth whose ass is driven through his brain by my windscreen diminishes me.
@farmerman,
fm said:
Quote:even the moth whose ass is driven through his brain by my windscreen diminishes me.
and yet you're still here? You must have started out pretty damn substantial...
Chumly - I'm just curious - I get kind of freaked out when my dog tries to eat carrion of any sort, because I believe she can get sick from it. Is there any truth in that?
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
All deaths diminish us, even the moth whose ass is driven through his brain by my windscreen diminishes me.
What about the animals you eat.
Do they, too, diminish you?
@dlowan,
Quote:What about the animals you eat.
Do they, too, diminish you?
Oh . . . would that they did . . .
@Setanta,
Lol!!~!
I find deaths like that of this bird hard to handle too.
It seems so sad that they have to deal with aspects of our world that they cannot understand.
At least it sounds quick.
@dlowan,
we call the flattened remains of animals that have left this earth via a chevy bumper,"road chicken"
Loudon Wainwright sings the rarely performed Dead Skunk at Rockpalast Germany in 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doqTSev-_lQ
@Chumly,
I have a Vegan buddy that hit a Squirrel got out of the car and burried and had a funeral for it right there, a nice one.
@candide,
As things stand, eating lower on the food chain is a safer bet both environmentally and healthwise.
Food choices aside, there's little doubt that the global environment would be in better shape, and man would have a safer future, if we had a smaller population worldwide.
@Chumly,
Thats for sure. Man is bad for man.
I had several birds hit a rather large window at my house, luckily none died, they all got up at some point and continued, but I did not want to take chances and
put up several decorative stickers up that window to prevent them from flying
into it - it worked!
@candide,
candide wrote:
I have a Vegan buddy that hit a Squirrel got out of the car and burried and had a funeral for it right there, a nice one.
But did this person switch to riding a bike in order to protect other animals from the 4-wheeled weapon?
@Chumly,
Chumly wrote:
Food choices aside, there's little doubt that the global environment would be in better shape, and man would have a safer future, if we had a smaller population worldwide.
So I wonder why the people who believe this way don't contribute to the well-being of the environment and just off themselves?
@GeneralTsao,
Naturally we're pragmatists..........knowing that events will intercede.
@GeneralTsao,
GeneralTsao wrote:
candide wrote:
I have a Vegan buddy that hit a Squirrel got out of the car and burried and had a funeral for it right there, a nice one.
But did this person switch to riding a bike in order to protect other animals from the 4-wheeled weapon?
You get flipped over the handlebars on account of a squirrel tangled in the spokes, you will lose all sympathy for the damn tree rats. Some people are called squirrely for a reason, that being that they are as unpredictable as squirrels.
@aidan,
I don't think it hurts them, aidan. A dog's stomach in a marvel of nature, second maybe to a buzzard's. They digest bones, and everything.
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