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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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This reminds me of the time my father wanted to rid the neighborhood of stray cats as he read up on how they can be destructive to the local environment. As a direct result of this, I killed my neighbors cat after shooting it a few times in the head (I didn’t know it was my neighbors cat). My father told me to do it. I was about 17 at the time.
Cats are absolute hell on wildlife, especially ground nesting birds, and should be removed from outdoors. That being said, that's completely fucked up that it was put on you by your father. It also sounds like you had to use a pellet/bb gun, the wrong tool. Also sounds like you might not have had much experience killing animals, completely understandable, cute housecats is a terrible place to start with that and is fucked up. He shouldn't have done that to you.
I had a similar experience when I was 15 and working my first job, on a farm. Had to shoot a puppy. Guess my boss thought it would make me tough or something. I managed not to throw up or cry.
My son is 15, I would never put something like that on him. He's killed rats with rat shot. He's watched me clean fish and squirrels. I'm hoping to have chickens next spring. My wife and I have talked about it, I'm going to teach him how to kill and clean a chicken.
Killing always makes me a little sad, as it should. I don't even kill spiders unless it's a black widow or a brown recluse and it's inside a house or shed. I take the ethics of it very seriously.
However, I think that if you're going to eat meat, you should have to kill and butcher at least once. We'd have a lot more vegans and more respect for life.