Well.. for as long as I can remember I've always been a 'live and let live' kind of person. No matter what the creature.. even bugs. I know most people think I'm mad.. but I can never kill any bugs. The way I see it they have just as much right to be here as I do, and who am I to say they're the ones that have to go.. other than the fact that I'm bigger and can eliminate them..
Anyway, I can't even kill a mosquito.. even if it's biting me.. I just shoo it away, knowing it'll just come back later and fill its belly. Yesterday I swatted and killed one and I felt bad for hours after. It is a bit extreme I know.. but I just can't help it.
Last year we had a big ant problem. I had sugar gliders at the time and the ants kept coming in to feast on the fruit the gliders were being fed. I couldn't stand the thought of using poison or traps on them.. they were just going about their daily lives.. taking care of the colony.. so in hopes of leading them back outside I put a bowl of honey in the bathroom that was right next to the room with the fruit. Sure enough they started travelling to the honey instead of the fruit! But I had cats and a dog as well so I couldn't leave the honey out in the bathroom like that.. SO I put the bowl of honey in a little hamster cage so the ants could still eat and the cats and dog couldn't get at it. So here I was.. with a cage of ants..
I started slowly moving the cage towards the window in the living room.. the ants moving along with it. Eventually I got it to the window and then started putting honey outside the window.. then further and further from the house. And VOILA!! No more ant problem!
So what's the point of this story other than to prove that, yes indeedy, I am mad? I was just wondering if anyone else feels this way about insects.. even a little? Please.. it's not JUST me is it??
Anyway, I can't even kill a mosquito.. even if it's biting me.. I just shoo it away, knowing it'll just come back later and fill its belly. Yesterday I swatted and killed one and I felt bad for hours after. It is a bit extreme I know.. but I just can't help it.
Last year we had a big ant problem. I had sugar gliders at the time and the ants kept coming in to feast on the fruit the gliders were being fed. I couldn't stand the thought of using poison or traps on them.. they were just going about their daily lives.. taking care of the colony.. so in hopes of leading them back outside I put a bowl of honey in the bathroom that was right next to the room with the fruit. Sure enough they started travelling to the honey instead of the fruit! But I had cats and a dog as well so I couldn't leave the honey out in the bathroom like that.. SO I put the bowl of honey in a little hamster cage so the ants could still eat and the cats and dog couldn't get at it. So here I was.. with a cage of ants..
I started slowly moving the cage towards the window in the living room.. the ants moving along with it. Eventually I got it to the window and then started putting honey outside the window.. then further and further from the house. And VOILA!! No more ant problem!
So what's the point of this story other than to prove that, yes indeedy, I am mad? I was just wondering if anyone else feels this way about insects.. even a little? Please.. it's not JUST me is it??
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