Re: Killing roaches?!
Answers: Does anybody else feel bad about killing roaches?
I probably would feel a little bad, like I do when I swat flies. We get a few enormous roaches at my house in the summer. Basically, I keep the lights on in the kitchen after dark, then don't go in there after 9 pm. They run fast, so I avoid them! Spiders are slow, so I put a jar over them, slip a paper underneath and put them outside. I try to be nice to insects like all animals, but when it's a matter of sanitation...I'm sorry!
Hell no! I kill them with relish!
no no no they crawl over everything carry germs and diseases and causes asthma... yuck kill em...
i dont have to .....my cat beats me to it*L
I understand your hesitance to kill insects, but you should realize that cockroaches generally do not have the neural system that people and animals have. As a result, they do not feel pain as we do. In fact most insects do not even have pain receptors
Additionally, they do not have brains which allow them to process concepts like death, dread, worry. . . only eat, reproduce and scurry away from preditiors. . .
I should remind you that cockroaches are predatory in that they eat their own babies, dead and weaker insects when hungry
As someone else noted above, they carry lots of nasty germs and bacteria. They scurry across our counters, and our food and are responsible for a lot of human disease and suffering.
Just like a plant does not feel pain when you grab it and consume it, neither do roaches dread death or feel pain when they die, whether from stepping on them or nuking them with insecticide.
Save the compassion for creatures that are deserving. . .
pick them up and throw them outside
and address house cleanliness so you don't have them in the first place.
I don't kill insects if I can avoid it- the exception being anything that feeds on me or puts me at risk. I don't know anything about cockroaches- I've never encountered one, but I'm pretty certain if my house was infested they would be promptly killed. I couldn't squish them though...ew.
From what I've read, any home can become infested with cockroaches, and having a dirty home is not required!
No because I don't kill them. I don't have roaches at home but when I was travelling I saw quite a few in my room along with huge spiders, lizards and mice. If they were on my bed then I'd pick them up and move them but if they were just there doing nothing then I'd leave them be.
Actually, I do not. Unfortunately, as one of the more insulated from the "real world" persons suggested, roach infestation is not always related to cleanliness. (You need to get out more, Michael.---Somehow I feel you will look to justify what you said.)
The buildings of my getaway compound on Vanuatu are "sealed"-- even the boathouse-- when I'm not there, yet when I go there I inevitably find "roaches" and so now I have the exterminator in before I get there.
Some parts of the world, just have "roaches" and periodically houses have to be fumigated. Roach eggs can travel undiscovered in the folds of carboards boxes, on the surface of fruit, other foliage, etc. . . . or they just "get in" from the surrounding terrain.
The old suggestion is that if there were a nuclear holocaust .. .roaches would survive any human life.
Roaches can carry disease, so yes they need to be exterminated before the reproduce like mad hatters and take over. As was stated, having a dirty house is not required to have roaches. A simple trip to the grocery store can result in bringing the little buggers home. If you get paper bags they like to eat the glue and can get in between the folds of the bag and the next thing you know, you have a roach.
When it comes to compassion, you need to start with your own family's safety over worrying about hurting disease carrying pests. Basically, just use common sense.
I get them in the dustpan and put them up the garden somewhere, i don't kill flies either, i open the door or window and let them get out that way.
I kill spiders all the time and I do not feel bad. My fear gets the best of me.