dead pets

[ferret15 0]

OK my friends Guinea pig died (old age) last night and her son asked her what she was going to do with it she said bury it and his reply was why dont you feed it to Marie's ferrets she replied no that would upset your sister.

my question is if your pet be it Guinea pig or other died would you feed it to the ferrets. yes or no and why

[MikeTheDog 153]

Because you would not be 100% sure it had a clean demise free from any infectious disease. And for the same reason I would not feed a dead pet/working dog to my ferrets........It's totally immoral, and I can't for the life of me think why I have answered such a fecking stupid question..... Must be an age thing!

[richie 1]

OK my friends Guinea pig died (old age) last night and her son asked her what she was going to do with it she said bury it and his reply was why dont you feed it to Marie's ferrets she replied no that would upset your sister.

my question is if your pet be it Guinea pig or other died would you feed it to the ferrets. yes or no and why

 

 

that would be like asking, if your ferret died, would you feed it to your other ferrets. its a pet, bury it..

[Simoman 110]

Because you would not be 100% sure it had a clean demise free from any infectious disease. And for the same reason I would not feed a dead pet/working dog to my ferrets........It's totally immoral, and I can't for the life of me think why I have answered such a fecking stupid question..... Must be an age thing!

 

Agree 100%, apart from not knowing what caused its death I wouldn't feed a family pet to my ferrets.

[ferret15 0]

i wouldn't because of the emotional attachment to my pets.

what I'm asking is if the only reason you wouldn't is because of the its a pet thing. some people breed animals to feed other animals. my granddad used to breed rabbits to eat, it was my job to look after them i never could bring my self to eat them because i had looked after them.

but if you think about it this is because i humanized them by giving them names and caring for them. i dont have any problem eating the ones i catch or feeding them to the ferrets. and i cant be sure they are disease free. i just wondered if the fact i couldn't feed a pet to my ferrets was a girl thing or if it was universal. because when we said no. my mates son wanted to know why not and the only answer i could give him was because it a pet. and i definitely didn't mean dog ( being mans best friend and all that.

[MikeTheDog 153]

Kids, they ask too many questions..

 

My father used to breed rabbits for the local fishmonger to sell, yea fishmonger not the butcher , I was forbidden to make a fuss of all except the stud buck!

[Guest little lurcher]

lol at reading this, my dear little sweetheart dogs have just killed my 3yr old sons very tame huge pet rabbit, who went by the name of RADDIT ( hey the kid is 3!!!!) R I P Raddit, now dad and i regularly have rabbit caught by various means but neither of us softies could bring ourselves to skin her !!!

 

so i did the "right thing" and fed her to the ferrets!!! in the top compartment so alfie couldnt see it though but im still feeling awful that i didnt bury her!!!! now after reading this im feeling even worse!!!

[ferret15 0]

lol at reading this, my dear little sweetheart dogs have just killed my 3yr old sons very tame huge pet rabbit, who went by the name of RADDIT ( hey the kid is 3!!!!) R I P Raddit, now dad and i regularly have rabbit caught by various means but neither of us softies could bring ourselves to skin her !!!

 

so i did the "right thing" and fed her to the ferrets!!! in the top compartment so alfie couldnt see it though but im still feeling awful that i didnt bury her!!!! now after reading this im feeling even worse!!!

 

 

this is exactly what I'm getting at its because we humanize them.

if my dear old granddad was reading this now he would call us wasteful I'm sure. after all he spent a year in a prisoner of war camp and if some one had given them a pet rabbit they would of eaten it thats for sure.

[Kay 3,709]

I would bury it

[woodchip 2]

no i wouldnt bit wierd

[millie 1]

When one of my first ferrets died,she was a polecat jill called Billybear she was about 9 years old one of the best ferrets i've ever owned and worked..

she was buried with full millitary honours in a birdseye waffle box then placed in a anchor army surplus bag..it was a sad day ..cheers Millie.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

My father used to breed rabbits for the local fishmonger to sell, yea fishmonger not the butcher.

 

 

Not Hoopers was it, Mike?

[ianrob 2]

In a way this is a good question because quite a lot of commercially produced pet foods do contain euthenased pets, so perhaps we are self deluding. I couldn't cope, but that's me. There is only yourself to cope with here. Though the mother in law, naw, I'd get caught sure as a guinea pig's a ferrets dinner.

[MikeTheDog 153]

My father used to breed rabbits for the local fishmonger to sell, yea fishmonger not the butcher.

 

 

Not Hoopers was it, Mike?

No Ditch, it was the wet fish shop in my home village of East Preston..

[Simoman 110]

I wouldn't feed my kids pets to my ferrets full stop, I don't get all anthropamorhic and treat them like little people, they are animals but they are different to the wild animals I kill as part of my hunting.