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What about bluebottles and rat's?
Bluebottles are guided out through a window. Rats I shoot with my air rifle if they are out by my bins in the back garden as I draw the line at putting my family, especially my 2 year old granddaughter at risk of Weil's disease and the other nasties they carry. I really do take not killing anything unnecessarily very seriously though. Mosquitoes always get dispatched, not because they bite me (they never do!) but the Mrs comes up in horrible weeping sores where they bite her which makes her miserable which makes me miserable. Other than that I do my best to save any living thing.
We had a big butterfly in the workshop the other day and I lost my lunchbreak making a rudimentary butterfly net out of some 10mm copper and a plastic bag and managed to do a catch and release all whilst people just took the p*ss out of me. I even save the wasps we get and put them outside.
I do get upset when people's first reaction to any creepy crawly showing its face is to stamp on it or whatever. Most people seem to do that without a thought.
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