• Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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    Rather than destroy caught rats by approved pest control methods, a manager advised “stomping on them or throwing them against walls”, the union’s complaint said.

    Hmm something tells me maybe the manger needs therapy and not be in charge of children

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      While my knee jerk reaction was the same, especially given the British tradition of hating their own children, but pondering a bit, it’s really a bit more honest than “juvenile detention” or any of the other euphemisms.

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    This is like a Far Side cartoon: “how many times do I have to tell you lunkheads? These are the therapy ferrets, those are the pest-control ferrets, don’t mix them up”

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      I feel like killing a rat is probably therapeutic for a therapy ferret. I mean, that’s kind of what ferrets are into. Probably more than being handled by the planet’s superpredator, at any rate.

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    I know this is probably considered cruelty to animals, but a part of me thinks, “wouldn’t the ferrets fucking love this?”

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      Just because they love doing the job (and they do) doesn’t mean they should be doing it for free, so sayeth the Union for Employed Weasels.

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    According to a union complaint seen by the Guardian, the decision resulted in a boy who looks after ferrets witnessing an “inappropriate and potentially distressing” savaging of a screaming rat.

    wow how distressing, break out the cotton wool

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      Yeah, that’s like my first girlfriend’s brat sister when I explained to her that the eggs she ate were essentially shat by hens. That’s how you learn about nature. Nature is both wonderful, and gnarly.