I've given a few animals mercy upon request. Squirrels in my area appear to be especially idiotic, but not bad enough to actually kill themselves cleanly. A lot of people aren't willing to put such animals out of their misery, but also don't enjoy the sight of a paralyzed and / or profusely bleeding animal.

I accidentally killed my pet snake when I was six. Constrictors don't need to be fed frequently, and it's hard to tell when they're dying (they don't move much when alive) so I ended up letting it starve.

I've fished once or twice in my life.

I've killed several pests, such as spiders, roaches, ants, rats, and mice. Also, I sacrificed many rodents to my pet snake.

I killed a crab on a dare once.

I may or may not have been indirectly responsible for the death of a deer. A series of events I was involved in led to some roadkill, but I wasn't even in a car at the time. Basically, I may have been the reason the deer was in the middle of the road.

I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

This is intriguing. Please elaborate O.o

Gosh..this brings back an unpleasant experience. A few years ago, my cat who was 17 years old developed a tumor. Until then she never had any health problems. Then she started going downhill really fast. The vet said she could try surgery but couldn't guarantee survival and it would have cost much more money than I could possibly afford. Or, the vet could put her down in the lab. I didn't want that. My cat became completley immobile and was suffering greatly..just a curled up ball of fur on the couch. A few days later, she gathered up the strength to crawl onto my lap and she looked at me with such sorrowful eyes, like she was pleading with me to help her out of her misery. I don't know what prompted me to do it but I gathered her up into my arms and held her very tight to my chest unti she couldn't breath anymore. She died in my arms. I'n a mature , grown man and I wept for a long time still holding her. I buried her in the gardenn and every spring plant flowers over her place and ask forgiveness.

That is the only time I have ever intentionally killed an animal.

It's my opinion it's been done like that for eons...
We had to put down one of our ferrets a couple of weeks ago, and went to an animal hospital and paid $65.
If it were not for the tender sensibilities of my other half...I likely would have done something similar.
Animal Control or the Humane Society or PETA are not the only ones capable of humane euthanasia...I beg to differ...they are only people as well.

I'm going to add to this because someone could say, "Well, their methods are more humane". To that I would answer, just make it quick, get it over with, and don't tell anyone who is indoctrinated PC group think so they're not horrified and report you or something.
I believe humane, compassionate euthanasia by owner is more commonplace than one might think, especially in rural areas...but it doesn't have to be a rural area.
I believe there are still guys who put a bullet in their faithful hunting dogs head when they need to be taken out of their misery...and of course it hurts the owner deeply, but it's necessary.

It's best to follow the law if it applies to your municipality though...just sayin'.

It's better for an animal to die in a familiar place surrounded by familiar people, than in a veterinarian's room with strange smells, sounds, people etc. When our dog was put down, they did it outside on the back of our pickup.

'course if you do it yourself, you want it to be quick as possible...slow painful death in familiar place probably isn't really better than fast peaceful death at the vets.

Not that I know. I suppose I've technically killed mice and rats by putting poison down though.

You actually are responsible for the killing of the animals you eat, just indirectly. They wouldn't be killed if no one ate them, and you're one of the people who eat them. Not the same as people dying in a city you live in. A more accurate comparison would be people who buy products that are made using child labor....by buying the product, you're supporting the practice of child labor.

My dad took me hunting once when I was a kid, but I had really bad aim so I didn't kill anything. I generally try to release insects that get in my house back outside, but the exception is wasps because I have a huge fear of them and they're hard to get out humanely when you're scared of getting stung. Luckily I don't have a wasp problem where I live right now.

I killed a bird with a golf ball... by throwing it at the bird. I didn't think I'd hit it and I... did. It was traumatic for a 10 year old kid to kill something.

Killing an animal is hardly the same as child labour.

My family are all shooters. My dad holds pheasant and partridge shoots every week from October - February. I'm not that keen on it, not because I care about killing the birds, I just don't like using guns in particular.

I love animals, but the whole "you're killing the planet/an evil person by eating animals" argument is the dumbest one around.

The thing about wasps is they do absolutely nothing but try to sting everything, whereas bees make honey and spiders acts as insect control.

But, yes, I've killed animals, but only to eat them. That's how life works.

I hunted pheasant for a while. Those were some tasty birds, though a little dry. Otherwise, no, I haven't hurt or killed an animal. No sense in doing so, unless it involves the safely of myself, friends and family, or to eat it.

The only things I would kill, I guess, are bugs, but not webspinning spiders. Those things keep the nasties out.

I didn't say that. I was using it as an anology for how the consumer of a product is indirectly responsible for the practices that were used to create said product.

If you prefer a positive example, it's also anologous to purchasing a fair-trade product made by women in Guatemala who are working to better their family's lives by receiving fair wages for their labor and ultimately improve the standing of women in their society. By purchasing the product, you are supporting the betterment of women in Guatemala.

Ok, I see. I'm a very open minded and understanding person, but people who try to use the guilt card and make out that eating animals is a barbaric act, really grind my gears.

I'm not saying you are, but it just reminded me of people who do.

I've been hunting and fishing on several occasions.

For the sake of full disclosure, I am a vegetarian because I personally wouldn't be willing to kill an animal for food. But I come from a family of hunters and have complete respect their choices because they are willing to do so and aren't hypocritical about it. It just irks me when people say they hate how the meat industry treats animals, or how they can't kill animals, but still consume them and thus support the practice.

I 100% agree with you on that. I can also see why one would be a vegetarian, I respect the lifestyle choice.

Three instances I remember pretty vividly..

First was when I was six years old, and I went hunting with my papa (grandfather for short), next to the camper where we set up, he gave me a revolver, told me to aim it at a tree, and I wound up shooting a squirrel. Sufficed to say he was shocked and once I realized I killed it, after getting over the few minutes of deafness caused by such a loud shot, I cried. Yes, they had it on video too, along with me pooping behind a large rock. Thankfully this video is nowhere near me and more importantly near other family, nor friends.

Second was when I was 8 years old, friend of mine was gonna get in trouble for his rabbit getting loose in the back yard and dirtying himself up. Not knowing any better, and seeing their dog jump in the pool to clean himself off, I thought it was a brilliant idea to put the rabbit in the pool to clean itself off. Didn't work out very well to say the least.

Last, was killing a cat. No point in posting the story again though, as I've done once before, as exaggerated outrage and people on a soapbox pretty much killed what positive in lessons learned could have come from the story.

Nope. I tend not to hurt anything to be honest.

Gopher hunting on my grandparents farm.

And the seasonal catipiller cannon.

When I was little I use to play rough with animals, cats especially. Though for reasons I don't remember, I stopped doing it, and treat animals the exact opposite now.

Yeah, fish would be the only animal I've ever killed. Either to eat it, or because it was too seriously injured from swallowing a hook all the way down to its stomach.

I shot a blue jay when I was a kid with a pellet gun my dad bought me for Christmas, though I instantly regretted it and gave it a proper burial. I don't think I ever picked up that gun again, it's buried in the back of my closet somewhere.

Some things I've done are: hitting a snake with my bike and shooting wild dogs in the ass with my pellet gun.

Why did you keep it in your closet? At least bury the poor thing in the yard!

You never know when a guys going to get hungry .