First, lets start with an amusing news story:
I can't seem to link it, but google something like "Aussie boy feeds zoo's animals to alligators." About a 7 year old that broke in and fed other animals to the crocs. CAN I HAVE A LINK PLEASE?
It is amusing and made me think of my son (not the breaking and entering part, but the animals part)
Me and my boy like to catch animals. Bugs, frogs, flies, lizards, spider, ants.
The lizards we don't harm. The ants we smush, the spider gets a dinner of ants and then the spiders get fed to the snake.
The other animals are tainted with vegetarianism and our cuscus likes apples (he's a bit effeminate I think), but the snake and our giant lizard get a steady diet of other bugs.
When not feeding bugs to the lizards, it is also fun to smash the ants that threaten our home. Sometimes we smash some ants just for looking at our home. Sometimes we do it for fun.
We let little lizards go so that we do not hurt them and never try to hurt lizards. Bugs we don't hurt slowly, but we squish ants fast and if we don't like spiders we have a fun time whopping the spider with a broom..but we are not allowed to pull legs off of grashoppers or wings off flies, though we are allowed to kill them outright.
He is also fascinated when I kill chickens and wants to see which guts we keep and which we throw away. He wants to try to kill a chicken when he gets older he says. He also wants to shoot pigs.
I also know that many parents teach their children how to hunt, which is maybe a useful trait here, but not so much in the West.
How do we teach the care and gentleness to animals and at the same time teach them to gut and kill animals? Also, how much should we play with bugs and squish them? Is it wrong to have fun squishing ants? Do I need just cause and what is that just cause? How about spidiers? How about lizards? How about birds? He slapped his kitty cats head so I spanked him, and then later in the afternoon we went and smashed spiders.
Any advice?
I can't seem to link it, but google something like "Aussie boy feeds zoo's animals to alligators." About a 7 year old that broke in and fed other animals to the crocs. CAN I HAVE A LINK PLEASE?
It is amusing and made me think of my son (not the breaking and entering part, but the animals part)
Me and my boy like to catch animals. Bugs, frogs, flies, lizards, spider, ants.
The lizards we don't harm. The ants we smush, the spider gets a dinner of ants and then the spiders get fed to the snake.
The other animals are tainted with vegetarianism and our cuscus likes apples (he's a bit effeminate I think), but the snake and our giant lizard get a steady diet of other bugs.
When not feeding bugs to the lizards, it is also fun to smash the ants that threaten our home. Sometimes we smash some ants just for looking at our home. Sometimes we do it for fun.
We let little lizards go so that we do not hurt them and never try to hurt lizards. Bugs we don't hurt slowly, but we squish ants fast and if we don't like spiders we have a fun time whopping the spider with a broom..but we are not allowed to pull legs off of grashoppers or wings off flies, though we are allowed to kill them outright.
He is also fascinated when I kill chickens and wants to see which guts we keep and which we throw away. He wants to try to kill a chicken when he gets older he says. He also wants to shoot pigs.
I also know that many parents teach their children how to hunt, which is maybe a useful trait here, but not so much in the West.
How do we teach the care and gentleness to animals and at the same time teach them to gut and kill animals? Also, how much should we play with bugs and squish them? Is it wrong to have fun squishing ants? Do I need just cause and what is that just cause? How about spidiers? How about lizards? How about birds? He slapped his kitty cats head so I spanked him, and then later in the afternoon we went and smashed spiders.
Any advice?