Is murdering animals illegal?

[DerpiesFreud]

like fish,puppies,cats,spiders etc?

 

[Nicci]

I don't know if its illegal. If not it should be. It is wrong to murder a living creature (not kill for meat or anything, but like murder as in drown in a bucket on purpose). I am talking about pets, not your average cockroach etc.

 

[MyWorld]

You cannot murder an animal, but you can kill it. According to law and the dictionary murder only applies to human beings.
There are no laws against killing animals either, AFAIK, but there are against animal cruelty. So it is up to the courts to decide on whether the killing was an act of cruelty or not.

Only laws against killing I can even remotely site are acts to protect endangered animals.

 

[DerpiesFreud]

I don't know if its illegal. If not it should be. It is wrong to murder a living creature (not kill for meat or anything, but like murder as in drown in a bucket on purpose). I am talking about pets, not your average cockroach etc.

ok,so not illegal....immoral yes...but I can deal with that

You cannot murder an animal, but you can kill it. According to law and the dictionary murder only applies to human beings.
There are no laws against killing animals either, AFAIK, but there are against animal cruelty. So it is up to the courts to decide on whether the killing was an act of cruelty or not.

Only laws against killing I can even remotely site are acts to protect endangered animals.

Animal cruelty is bad...killing maybe,I`l eat the meat afterwards
and its not an endangered animal either

 

[D3nz]

Animal cruelty is bad...killing maybe,I`l eat the meat afterwards
and its not an endangered animal either

:erm: Nuke, when you say you're asian, I've always assumed you're Indian.

 

[DerpiesFreud]

:erm: Nuke, when you say you're asian, I've always assumed you're Indian.

I`m full asian,half indian and raised in limpopo

 

[MyWorld]

What animal are we talking about here?

The neighbours' cat?

 

[Gozzy]

If it's life threatening.. then I would kill it, like a snake for example

 

[DerpiesFreud]

What animal are we talking about here?

The neighbours' cat?

perhaps....something along those lines

If it's life threatening.. then I would kill it, like a snake for example

It could be....in which case I`d kill it without so much as a second thought

 

[Bona Botse]

If it ain't human, ain't endangered and doesn't belong to anyone else then it's fair game. As long as it's killed humanely.

Anyone that consumes any byproduct of animal slaughter but makes emotional objections for animals like pets is only kidding themselves.

And before you think that you don't eat meat therefore save the kittens, where do you think your favourite leather pant comes from?

 

[DvD]

You cannot murder an animal, but you can kill it. According to law and the dictionary murder only applies to human beings.
There are no laws against killing animals either, AFAIK, but there are against animal cruelty. So it is up to the courts to decide on whether the killing was an act of cruelty or not.

Only laws against killing I can even remotely site are acts to protect endangered animals.

AFAIK, it can also be damage to property (especially if we are talking about the neighbour's cat)

 

[AlmightyBender]

So what is my sentence if I accidentally step on a spider in the garden? Do I hand myself in to any police station or is there a special unit?

 

[DvD]

So what is my sentence if I accidentally step on a spider in the garden? Do I hand myself in to any police station or is there a special unit?

As a follow up, what if I intentionally step on a spider, which turns out to be the neighbour's very expensive pet tarantula who escaped from his cage?

 

[Mars]

As a follow up, what if I intentionally step on a spider, which turns out to be the neighbour's very expensive pet tarantula who escaped from his cage?

Well if you did it on purpose, he would be able to charge you with malicious damage to property.
Otherwise it would be his own stupid fault for letting it get out (besides the shtfit the ecologists would have if they heard it got out).

 

[Bona Botse]

So what is my sentence if I accidentally step on a spider in the garden? Do I hand myself in to any police station or is there a special unit?

No crime was committed here.

As a follow up, what if I intentionally step on a spider, which turns out to be the neighbour's very expensive pet tarantula who escaped from his cage?

This is interesting. The neighbour should have taken better care of his expensive pet though.

Did you know it was your neighbours pet?

 

[AlmightyBender]

No crime was committed here.

yes but if I can murder animals I would have a legal obligation to report all animal deaths to the police.

Also will I be charged for using flee shampoo on my poor flee-ridden dogs?

 

[DvD]

This is interesting. The neighbour should have taken better care of his expensive pet though.

Did you know it was your neighbours pet?

Getting into the argument of what the reasonable person would have done. What if I did not know it is his spider (I say his, as I do not know any woman who will keep a spider as a pet), but I suspect it may be, as I have heard he keeps one?

What if the tarantula cannot actually hurt you, but you think it can? Did you need to kill it? What interest of yourself were you protecting when killing it?

 

[D3nz]

Getting into the argument of what the reasonable person would have done. What if I did not know it is his spider (I say his, as I do not know any woman who will keep a spider as a pet), but I suspect it may be, as I have heard he keeps one?

What if the tarantula cannot actually hurt you, but you think it can? Did you need to kill it? What interest of yourself were you protecting when killing it?

Here, you now know one woman who has a pet tarantula in her home It's my son's though.

 

[Bona Botse]

Getting into the argument of what the reasonable person would have done. What if I did not know it is his spider (I say his, as I do not know any woman who will keep a spider as a pet), but I suspect it may be, as I have heard he keeps one?

What if the tarantula cannot actually hurt you, but you think it can? Did you need to kill it? What interest of yourself were you protecting when killing it?

The spider was on your property, you have the right to defend your property, so if you thought you or yours were in danger from the spider being on your property, kill it, kill it with fire, there is no crime here. Even if you knew it belonged to your neighbour.