When I see a bug or something in my house (I'm not talking about pests, but one spider or something like that) I always move them outside and tell them "you can't stay here if you don't pay rent" It's silly, but I always find it funny

@draliene9640

7 жыл бұрын

Also, I listen to videos that I've already listened of Unnatural Vegan when I go to sleep because her voice is really relaxing

@PassedTime2788

7 жыл бұрын

Dra Liene her voice is definitely unintentional ASMRish, which is funny considering her ironic hatred of ASMR. :D

@draliene9640

7 жыл бұрын

NobodysBusiness I don't like ASMR because you can hear the saliva more than the actual voice. On the other hand her entonation and everything is pleasing. I'm sure her baby sleeps a lot 😂

@PassedTime2788

7 жыл бұрын

You should check out the unintentional ASMR channel. Less of that and they actually do interesting things.

@TheRMartz12

7 жыл бұрын

lmao

I saw someone mad one time about another vegan using lice treatment. LICE TREATMENT. Like, there's a blurred line of ethicalness in terms of pests and I love animals, but lice.... agh nope nope nope.

@MartianBlues11

7 жыл бұрын

Julia Mazzucato Seriously? That's nuts. Are they offended by dogs getting deworming treatments? What about someone removing a tapeworm or something? That's so silly.

@Tehstool

7 жыл бұрын

The lice aren't hurting anybody. They are just minding their own business sucking the blood out of your head.

@SweRaider1993

7 жыл бұрын

I love this thread... 😂

@lauren8627

7 жыл бұрын

Holy cow!!!! How anybody could live a normal life with chronic lice 'plague' on their head is beyond me. I had them for one day and went psychotic! (First time ever, I was 26! - sheltered life eh?)

@princessunicornfairymermai6382

7 жыл бұрын

I wish this was a joke but there are honestly ridiculous people out there like that. Probably more than people would like to thing.

In Australia if the spiders aren't harmful we just name them and leave them alone

@traumtanzerin3134

7 жыл бұрын

what would be a good name for a spider in your opinion?

@cnkloss

7 жыл бұрын

Charlotte

@ifihadfriends437

7 жыл бұрын

we've had spiders called Dobby, Maddy, Boris, Steve and 'my spider son'

@Tamizushi

7 жыл бұрын

It's different. In Australia, spiders are the only creatures that don't want to kill you. Well some of them.

@teacup4230

7 жыл бұрын

relatable

It's great that you made this video! Not a lot of vegans are willing to talk about this topic, so the fact that you are is really cool.

roaches scare the living fuck out of me

Kale and Seitan (a personal failing & need for a recipe)

@meowglab7702

7 жыл бұрын

Julia Gundrum Connie's Rawsome Kitchen (on yourube) makes amazing seitan!! Of so many different styles! There's jerky, beef, satay, etc

You should be nice to spiders. Spiders are pretty cool. They have 8 legs and 8 eyes, and build their houses from stuff that comes out of their butts. Also pedipalps.

@kaigraham1287

7 жыл бұрын

you forgot insectivorous

Do I have a story. Ok so I hd just woken up to go to my bathroom and there was this tarantula just sitting on my towel. and half awake I'm just staring at the spider thinking '' Is this real life? '' Then I'm fully awake and realize there is a fucking fat tarantula on my towel. And I have sent all my 18 years of life not encountering a tarantula but in the time that I '' tried '' to be vegan, I encounter this thing. And I'm all alone, and I'm like '' crap i'm vegan I can't kill u. '' So run too the kitchen to grab little container with with a blue cover. When I come back to the bathroom the spider is gone, I wanted to die. I looked around audit ended up in the shower. So I go really slow towards it and with the dish thingy I cover it and it jumps (but I caught it) and I'm literally in my shower just holding it down. I then move it to the wall and slide up (the wall is connected to the floor in a curve,not a 90 degree angle, so It slid perfectly) I stayed on the wall for a bit as well, thinking how I'm gonna get the cover on. then it hit me to drag the poor spider all around the shower wall to the side where e would normally enter the shower. and with the cover, I had it ready and as I slide the container off the wall, I connect it straight to the cover. IT WAS A SUCCESS! So I run outside, and now I'm like '' shit, how am I gonna open it without it jumping on me or whatever. and then the idea came to cover it and open it with the same towel the spider was on. so I go to the grass and open stand the spider jumps and I scream. lol. So the spider lands on the grass and runs immediately. I felt a big relief knowing that I didn't have to kill it. It took me 30 minutes to get it out but I was still relived.

@friedbleu

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel McLaughlin awesome story plus it made me chuckle just getting the visual. Good for you!

@danielmclaughlin2733

7 жыл бұрын

thanks

@MszGrey

7 жыл бұрын

Oh my God

@bethanybrown2022

7 жыл бұрын

I would have ran out and closed the door crying and rolling on the floor and on the phone with pest control asking what to do.

@danielmclaughlin2733

7 жыл бұрын

Bethany, lol well I live in Belize, we don't have a pest control company like how we see on t.v. We just kill everything.

If it's just one harmless bug like a spider or a grasshopper I will put them outside. But we have a cockroach infestation and will definitely be spraying the house. Minimize harm when possible, but it's just not safe to be living with pests like cockroaches or rats. They carry so many diseases.

@danimoonz9610

7 жыл бұрын

Bri spiders are not harmless here in Georgia my coworker just spent a week in the hospital for a spider bite lol.

Another personal failing.... THAT KALE SEITAN RECIPE

"I don't know a lot of things" *says the person who gained an audience from being a knowledgeable intellectual*

@Nattyzeenha

7 жыл бұрын

Aliisa Kalma I subscribed and watch her because she is a critical thinker. A critical thinker should not pretend to know all :) it's counter intuitive

@NekoShiiro93

7 жыл бұрын

Aliisa Kalma "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

@aliisakalma8245

7 жыл бұрын

Neko, that is correct an important thing to remember,Nataly, yeah obviously but my comment was ass kissing and light hearted :D

@Starry_Night_Sky7455

7 жыл бұрын

I think everyone on this comment thread makes good points + worthy compliments. I agree she's a critical thinker.

@aliisakalma8245

7 жыл бұрын

That's why i'm such a fangirl. in some aspects she's a woman who admittedly has gained the respect as a rationalist and a sceptic, which, dare i say, sometimes is seen as more of a boys club.

For common ants, a line of cinnamon will really effectively turn them around if they're interested in a particular area in your home. Cinnamon is fairly easy to clean up on hardwood and tile... carpet might be... interesting.

@biancac412

7 жыл бұрын

Or you could just spray them with raid.

@robeson1070

7 жыл бұрын

Bianca Clark I could, however, I'm inclined not to use raid around the cat and have found, in my experience, that cinnamon works more effectively at disrupting ant lines than the bait traps.

Whatever invades my house dies. Having dealt with mice and cockroaches, they just won't go away. The cockroachs problem was so bad, it spread from us to the neighbours.

I recently had an ant infestation in my apartment. I decided it wasn't so bad. They were mostly in one area that I didn't frequent very much and they weren't doing any harm. Then flying ants started coming in and I found the source was a damaged window sill. I reported it to the office and the ants, which I started to suspect were termites kept getting worse. An exterminator came out and sprayed and they patched up the window sill. All is good now, but i still feel a little bad. The exterminator confirmed they were ants. I have a phobia of roaches, beetles, basically any insect that has a heavy shell. I have a hard time visiting my mom because she has roaches. She's tried for years to get rid of them unsuccessfully. So I know how you feel.

can you please make a post about veganism vs indigenous/traditional culture. this loud obnoxious white dude who was recommended on your videos made one but it was very much like emotive and devoid of context. like the PDF of "cattle before crops" which explores the history of domestication and thus food ways within the Sahel and Serengeti. it's understandable that cows and grazers are kept or killed in lands where the biomass is mostly inedible to humans and/or where fertile lands away from alluvial soil are scare. where drought is a fact rather than an exception. I have some family from Katanga in DRC and meat was a nutritional need because hunger seasons occurred yearly where saved crops were all eaten and new crops were too immature to eat. I don't understand why people judge folks eating traditionally where food insecurities are a fact rather than exception. Why don't they look at the work of Weston Price in Africa showing cavities and malnutrition between farmers of poorer soils and mixed agro-pastoralists. I don't understand why Western vegans who've never known what it's like to live in the global South or in the Far north make judgements. Why do people not understand the mutualistic relationships of plants non-human animals and humans? how can people not understand the cultural and spiritual reality of most herders in The Sahelian/Miombo and their livestock? what are your studies pointing to on the topic? because most of these vegans are fucking pompous and oblivious on channels and in the comments.

This is something I struggle with a lot. I had a fruit fly problem a few years back because I'm only allowed to take my trash out once a week (we have to put it out on the street on a specific day and they come pick it up that day). It took me so long to finally realise they weren't going away on their own and I would indeed have to kill them. I can't kill any bug with my hands or an object, except for mosquitos, because I feel like that's self-defence. I'm quite ok with the occasional lone bug hanging around my house and usually just let them be or take them outside. Now mice are another story. I have had pet rats for a few years and my whole family loves them intensely. Since mice are just tiny rats and incredibly cute, we absolutely refuse to harm them. We usually end up trapping them in the rats' food container and carrying them outside, surprisingly enough once you carry enough of them away it usually works for a while. I do wish I had more balls when it comes to pest control, but I'm the softest softy.

I love your honesty. and in terms of vegan advocacy I think this topic can still be helpful, because talking about your experience with it, and showing people that you yourself aren't perfect, and have topics you work on etc, can help them understand that in your eyes they don't have to be perfect, but every little bit helps.

I think Veganism is about the system and how we can change it, by avoiding animal products. Killing or not killing ants (or flys) in your appartment doesn't influence the system. So in my opinion, it's totally fine to kill them. But you should protect bees, killing them would be very very unethical, because they do influence the system more than little ants. That's just my opinion on insects.

@Arjuna86004

5 жыл бұрын

Any ideology can be carried to an extreme. Extremism begets it's own rewards. Putting the existence of an insect or rodent above the personal health and safety of yourself or your family is misguided. Compassion, like all worthy ideals, has practical limits. Moderation in all things is an equally worthy ideal.

Good luck on your phobia tackling :) I am not scared of spiders or bugs at all and neither is my brother but I did find out as an adult that my mum despite what she told us was actually pretty scared of spiders and bugs! Her making the effort to pretend to not be scared made a massive difference. She said she just made it a game so that we caught them and she didn't have to!!

I don't count insects into veganism. My personal critique. I feel like a lot of people have the same stance.

@TriggerHappy923

7 жыл бұрын

livelaughForte I don't either.

@TriggerHappy923

7 жыл бұрын

Ruby Tuesday no one said they weren't animals.

@TriggerHappy923

7 жыл бұрын

Ruby Tuesday the thing is, veganism =\= Jainism. You can live a full and happy life like a Jain and watch every step you make so you don't crush a bug, but it's inconvenient so we don't. We kill bugs every day. We eat micro bug remnants every day. I think vegans really pretend to care about bugs but when it's inconvenient for THEM they don't even think about it. Vegans cherry pick.

@aleakilea

7 жыл бұрын

Trigger Happy yeeees, I totally agree, dont get me wrong. Although I do care about insects... But i know I can't avoid all the harm and I'm not looking at the floor all the time. But I was really curious, being vegan would you eat insects?

@TriggerHappy923

7 жыл бұрын

Ruby Tuesday I might try some food made from grasshopper flour. Heard that's trying to become a thing. If people are looking for a "healthy" animal protein alternative I'm 100% for using bugs. It's much more sustainable that what we have now, I think it's a huge step in the right direction if that's the case.

As a former spiders/insects fobiac who ended up writing a thesis on these little monsters (with a lot of handling and, unfortunately, also a lot of killing) I suggest to buy some nice books about them :) getting to know them really worked for me in easing the fear. Also maybe start looking at/handling the ones you find less repulsive. My ultimate fear was the house centipede, and I went as far as keeping a photo of it as a desktop wallpaper for a while, just to get accostumed. Wish you luck! ♥

I'm not living with pests, period. We are vegan & sorry not sorry.

@uuj4rghjhuuuuuj

3 жыл бұрын

Ok then you're not vegan anymore

@god-of-war-fan

3 жыл бұрын

@@uuj4rghjhuuuuuj you used their own logic on them😂

i had a pretty strong phobia of spiders especially until i forced myself to hold a tarantula at a reptile show. i was completely stunned by how calm i was, and actually enjoyed the experience of holding her. it really showed me how docile the non-aggressive types of spiders are and that they really are pretty neat little creatures.

thank you so much you have helped me on my vegan journey so much!!

Hey Swayze, you should look into getting a "spider catcher". I was given one as a present once. Keeps them at arms length and can be put outside quickly. Can be used on moths and similar things as well. Saves a lot of time and shrieks :) - from a fellow arachnophobe

@TriggerHappy923

6 жыл бұрын

umbudiga I personally wouldn't touch that catcher if it had a spider in it.

There aren't really any animals that scare me. I used to be afraid of bees though since I have an allergy to them. But as I have observed them and been outside more, they don't cause fear anymore.

Thank you for posting this video! My roommate and I have had terrible roach problems in our apartment, and even though I kept taking them outside, more would come in. It finally got to the point where we needed to spray (we had five in one night. It was just terrible). We've found a few dead since then, and I feel awful every time I see them. It was such a difficult decision because I don't want to see them suffering or be the one responsible for their deaths, but at the same time, it was something that could not be left alone.

OMG!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I religiously follow a vegan lifestyle and I love animals. BUT I have massive arachnophobia and vegan or not I just can't handle spiders. This always made me feel horrible though and no vegan seems to want to talk about this.

@TriggerHappy923

6 жыл бұрын

Rhea Vania I'm the same, the idea of catching a spider to put outside to me gives me anxiety just thinking about. I'd rather give it a quick death. I don't feel bad about it and I can't. I just imagine if it knew how to get in, it would get in again, likely due to the temperature control of the house makes it want in. Also I ain't going near that thing with a cup, my worst nightmare is if I did somehow magically get it in a cup, what if I'm outside and I look inside and it's not there!!!! I'd DIE!

There are also some repellent devices like candles, sprays or even noises that could help keep bugs away. I guess these probably don't work on every situation but could definitely help!! Great video! I had never thought about the vegan side of pest control 🤔

What do vegans do for pest control on dogs and cats. I am thinking of flea and tick prevention. What about heart worm or tapeworm treatment?

Do you have one of those insect catcher things? I got one from Amazon to suck up insects so I can put them outside.

If you have an infestation of cockroaches, bedbugs or something similar, I implore you to get that dealt with quickly. I lived in an apartment building where our downstairs neighbours were against killing any living thing. We ended up getting an explosion of pests (including both cockroaches and bedbugs) up to our place that was really hard to get rid of, even after those tenants got evicted. So we were getting almost weekly poison spraying all over our living space and I got super sick from all of it. We ended up needing to move away from there, breaking a lease and it was really expensive for us.

The last 25 seconds of this video...your voice went Stewie writing a novel in Family Guy. Oh my goodness so freaking great. Interesting timing on the video -- I was thinking about this yesterday.

I'm not sure if you've done a video on this, but what do you think about people who use bugs/insects as protein sources? Also, can you please do a video on veganism and diabetes for those who have type 2 diabetes or are pre-diabetic? My parents fall under these categories and I'm terrified bc they don't take care of themselves 🙁 please work on a video like this 💕

Great video good topic to cover. You've inspired me to work on my own fear of spiders totally irrational!

Prevention is key. Absolutely right. I found a homepage from an exterminator who had some really good informational sections about prevention. Unfortunately I lost it again. Please post a link if you find a good page like that. Thanks!

Sadly I can't do anything about the leaking roof right now, we have been working on it for over a month, and my dad fell off the roof :(

We have a little intruder from a neighboring field and it made me wonder what you’d have to say about pest control and, sure enough, you have a video!

I have no idea if this works all of the time but one summer I had fruit flies really bad in my apartment and I didn’t want to kill them so I put a peach pit in a jar and covered the top with tin foil with little holes poked in it and I’d just cover the top and take it outside whenever it was full. After a few weeks they were all gone

I had a girlfriend who was so terrified of spiders that she would get angry with me for releasing them outside. no matter how far I went, she was convinced if I didn't kill them they would make their way right back in again. We had fights about it lol. In the end I guess I chose the spiders over that relationship

I lived in an apartment in a wooded area and wolf and jumping spiders (not the little ones) were infested!!! I was a clean freak for that reason...but it didn't matter. I was living in the arachnaphobia movie. I even found a wolf spider in my bed! One fell on my face from the ceiling when I was laying on the couch watching tv! Ugh, and yes I killed them when I saw them. management refused to do anything! Now that I live in a house I try to trap them in a cup and release them outside away from my house. Even though they creep me out.

My mom had a raccoon friend that came in for a cat food treat. They removed the cat door then the raccoon broke through the window screens. My dad got a live trap and drove him out to some woods. Attic squirrels when they are out collecting food cover your vents with a fine hardware cloth and it helps keep them out. Bees are really hard to take care humanely, it is only a few nests that can be successful removed with out destroying the hive. We found that out the hard way.

One of my biggest fears is cockroaches getting in my room (I live in Florida so they’re EVERYWHERE) because my door is closest to the garage door and the kitchen. Likes it’s crippling and I lay awake at night sometimes fearing one will be on my bed one day. So I got a door draft stopper for my bedroom and the door to the garage so it’s nearly impossible for a cockroach to get under the door

that is a real issue for me too. like I let the spiders be and try to not freak out, but their presence makes me feel like the house is not clean aaand they are so gross to me.

Totally unrelated to this video, but I was wondering how you dealt with your cat's while pregnant. I know you discussed toxoplasmosis in your cat video, but I just wondered what precautions, if any, you took. I have two cat's and am currently pregnant. Just have my husband scooping litter for now.

I only get house flies and on rare occasions bees and wasp I just open the window and let them outside.

really awesome you share this. thanks

Did she ever make that seitan recipe video yet?

But I never kill spiders, they are beautiful and they come to the house at the end of summer and stay all autumn, then they just die. I even tried to save them, by taking them from the bathroom, where are no flies for them to catch and putting them to my room, where they might catch a fly.

how has your relationship with spiders been since then?

We have mice in our house, and I recently chose to switch from sticky traps, which kill them slowly, to the old fashioned mouse trap, which kills them quickly. I figured this was more humane, but it’s still a gray area.

Great subject!! No one really talks about this, I'm vegan but I don't want pest in my house

I have a problem with mice! The biggest problem, is that I rent and share with few people and the house is old with a lot of holes and double walls and landlord would not seal them. I was trying not harmful methods for half a year, like removing food and using mint oil to scare them away. Cat option is very cruel, so I did not use it. At the end, I needed to order pest control, breaking my heart. After that, landlord would seal all holes and I hope, that they will never come back... Mice would wake me up at night, being loud in the sealing and walls.

I LOVE house spiders, we have a huge one that comes out at night to hunt. It just makes me happy that someone takes care of the less pleasant bugs

My phobia of spiders is so bad I cannot function if I think there's a spider in my house. I can't even look at pictures of spiders. I get physically ill, it's ridiculous.

I work on a size and room rule with spiders. If they're small, or in the bathroom, they can stay. Also, if they only come out at night. Otherwise, they're out. Odd, I know. Flies, however, can die. My one real hate is flies.

Could you discuss intermittent fasting? It has blown up in the vegan community and I would truly appreciate your perspective on the matter.

I just want to say... I love your videos. Most Vegans scare me off by their aggression but you are full of facts and have a general understanding for humans as they are and how they want to be. I am originally from MN but moved to Maui, Hawaii 4 years ago. I have been learning about Bugs ever since. I was so scared of cockroaches and other bugs. Now after living here and dealing with many kinds of bugs I am less freaked out. There are many types of cockroaches, some are real yukky and some are not. Check out the Harlequin cockroach...Its kind of pretty. Also the Field Cockroach is common here but lives outside in the fields and does not want to be inside like the German cockroach. The Spiders here eat the annoying ants so I let them live in my bathroom behind the toilet. Geckos and anoles eat bugs. I still hate ants... and they are so bad here looking for water... that one night I went to have a drink of water in bed and they crawled from my cup onto my top lip and face..... It was so scary and they also will nest in electronics so although they dont eat your house and dont bite... they can be harmfulish. The 2 things that really freak me out here are the Centipedes and the rats. EKKK... I hate killing anything... and I do try to get mice and rats with no kill but.... sometimes its impossible. The other pest we have here in Hawaii are chickens. Sounds crazy but true. Feral, Wild chickens.. But I like them because they eat roaches and centipedes.

My friend lives in a condo complex recently had a bedbug infestation from her neighbors; it was terrible because they also chewed on her cat

If you fill your home with mint, spray peppermint essential oil in corners of your ceiling, along your baseboards, make potpourri with dried mint, just generally make your home minty fresh, spiders, ants, roaches and mice will likely move out.

We have a bit of a potato bug issue at work (I have heard some people call them rolly-pollys) I'm a hairstylist, and every time I sweep up after a cut I find at least 1 but usually more and some of them are already dead but the ones that are alive I save and put them back outside because I can't just put them in the garbage with the hair :( nobody at work understands why it makes me so sad 🐰🐭🐀

lol my apartment building has cockroaches all over the basement (I doubt the landlord sprays for bugs, he hasn't yet this spring, unlike my last place) and now I actually do have brown recluse spiders the size of QUARTERS in my 2ND STORY apartment. (yes I checked - their back markings and shapes look exactly the same, compared to the one I have had trapped under a glass for the past 2 days.) I'm pretty sure I've been mistaking them for house spiders for months as they've been growing. now I know to look up insects before I let them go outside. lesson thoroughly learned.

@madilyons8665

7 жыл бұрын

I'm with you on the harmful vs not-harmful method of dealing with insects though, for pretty much all the situations of not-harmful bugs I've encountered. I usually just let them be or put them outside of they are annoying or creepy. growing up with wasps constantly invading the house in summer taught me that some bugs you really should just kill, for your own safety and sanity.

I hate bugs but don't want to kill them, so I had mosquito nets installed on all of my windows, and almost nothing gets in. I haven't seen a spider in years. I sometimes get the tiny fruit flies but they don't bother me

Ugh thank you so much for this video...I agree completely and do the same except for spiders(my husband does what you do though) I just put them outside. this is such an unspoken topic though!

From one vegan to another, I love you Swayze and don't admonish you for this video. Keep doing what you're doing.

Even before going vegan I never liked spraying bug spray. There are more natural methods to kill insects, like borax and sugar paste. What worked for me the best is just having a regular cleaning schedule, dusting every day, and cleaning surfaces with natural cleaners like vinegar mixed with water.

The only pests I kill are centipedes (anywhere in my house, I hate those things so much 😨) and spiders that get into my bedroom. I try to leave them alone everywhere else in my house unless they're the REALLY big ones.

I have no tips or tricks for dealing with insects, but very interesting topic. ( Love that kitty footage at the end! )🐜🕷🐞🕸

I accidentally picked a spider up once thinking it was a piece of cat food on the floor. I almost died of shock but I can confirm it didn't hurt me itself.

So I have a ridiculous ant problem. It's the larger ants, but they are def after food. I keep the counters clean, wiped etc. But they still come and infest food etc. I'm ok killing them honestly, but I have a dog and don't want her anywhere near anything toxic and I can't find a way to get rid of them that won't potentially harm my pup. Any ideas of non-toxic ways that actually work?

Glad you talked about this. We actually had a bee infestation, and tried my hardest to set them free outside but eventually there were 30-40 bees in my apartment every day. And they die relatively quickly like within a day... my bf and I even got into an argument about them. He would kill them right away to 'end their suffering' if there were a lot and it was night (since they are attracted to light and will die outside wherever we leave them), while I would just ignore them and let them die 'peacefully' :/

I have a soft spot for "Christmas beetle's" (worth googling if you don't have them near you) They are so adorable! But roaches are sooo gross. We had a ladybug infestation in our floo (fire) in Summer one year. I tried my best to move them all outside, but I don't think it helped much.

I had a pretty bad bed bug infestation not long ago, and I had someone ask me if it was against my vegan beliefs to get rid of them. My answer, of course, is no. Just because I am compassionate about animals and let that be one of the reasons I am a vegan doesn’t mean I am going to let bed bugs stay in my home and eat me alive.

This obsession with sentience is insane.

I've been really bothered by insects since I was a child too, and I don't really know where it comes from. I know my fear of bugs probably solidified that one time I stayed at my grandparents home in the countryside and these 3cm big bugs kept dropping from the ceiling all night - such a horrible sound, plus some was landing on me! I somehow got trough it one night, but the second night it was EVEN WORSE and I simply refused and said I would sleep in the bathtub or wherever, but certainly not in that room, nope. Bugs still fill me with creepling fear, the make me totally uneasy, I will get shaky at the sight of them if they're in my house. Luckily, I could semi-overcome my fear of spiders trough time as I realized there mostly slow and eat other stuff like gnats and little flies that also gross me out. Usually when I see a (bigger) spider I tell it to please hide away, because I don't want to see it haha and they usually do (I know it's silly to talk to them, but it makes me feel better). I used to be really bothered by moths too, because they fly around and will collide with your body and eew. But I kinda got used to them and now think of them more as dark butterflies, which in reality, they are anyway. I still don't like them flying in my face, but if they're somewhere else in the room they don't bother me anymore and I can admire their colouring if they're sitting still anywhere.

My cat hunts bugs or anything else that gets into the house. We had a mouse awhile back and then a day later we had a dead mouse. Same with spiders or flying bugs

I live in the outback where the worst would be snakes and dingoes. Every other creepy crawly is most likely venomous or gross (roaches) so its RIP lil dudes if they get past the perimeter spray

My mother installed a fear in me of those flying 'daddy long legged' spiders. I remember not being afraid of them, but I've been afraid since an episode when I was 9 or something, where she freaked out. Parents can have so much to do with their children's fears & dislikes. 🐜🕷 You should check out videos on how they keep beetles as pets in Japan! Children there love them. So interesting. :)

Since it's summertime, hand-catching flies at windows is a good way to get rid of your fear of bugs. Don't forget to wash your hands afterwards!

I've been wondering for a while now what other vegans do about insects in their house. My cat actually catches and eats most spiders or bugs that come into my apartment. If not, I try to be brave and put them outside or ask my boyfriend to do it.

I've had a lot of luck using tea tree oil as an ant repellant. It's safe and it makes my kitchen smell wonderful. I simply dilute it and rub it around my window sills. I need to ask my landlord about sealing the windows better.

I never met a bed bug who could hold up their end of the dinner conversation. My judgement has always been immediate, severe and beyond appeal, Spiders on the other hand provided me with years of entertainment until my girls were grown and out of the house.

that s so pretty to see things into a different perspective. Congrats!!! Let s hope those squirrels have been released back into nature.

i currently have pidgeons and possums in my roof and I've had an in-house wild mouse because i haven't figured out safe ways to make them leave for good. I kill cockroaches but try to re-home all other insects outside

I'm cockroach phobic, I understand you. But I have no issue with spiders and here in Brazil there is a tiny little spider that kills a lot of people every year. It's called aranha marrom in portuguese, it lives indoors and it is one of deadliest spiders of the world. So my fear isn't rational.

I leave the friendly house spiders alone and give them names like Fred and Bob 😁 One spider, that I was unsure of, I took to the garage where it could have a wonderful 'spider mansion' lol I get ants almost every summer for a short period of time 🐜 I sprinkle black pepper and cinnamon around their trail so they go no further and they usually get the hint and leave in few days with patience 💗

What about pest control in horticulture

Thank you for being normal! I love you xxx

I'm totally the same about spiders and stuff! I feel really bad about it, but if my dad isn't home to put the spider outside and won't be home for a long time, I will sometimes kill the spider. I'm trying to get better about it, but they're so scary!

My dog had fleas. They were killed with extreme prejudice. She has a flea collar and flea drops, but she picked them up on a walk. It was horrible. Am I going to ignore them? No. They were killed. The house was sprayed. Everything was washed and covered in flea powder.

Pests are one of the reasons I'll always keep a cat. We're Australian so it's vital to keeps pests down (including mice, they attract snakes and we have young children). Our cats keep everything away and their smell is also a deterrent. It's a hard one as a vegan, but at the end of the day it's vital to keep my family safe.

@TriggerHappy923

6 жыл бұрын

Outrageous Flavour A lot of cats have Toxoplasmosis, which cats give to pests, and then pasts are then attracted the Cat's urine. Also is it better to buy a cat for pest control when you have to feed that constant pet control other dead animals to kill pests instead of directly killing the pests?

I put the bugs outside... but my parents were never afraid of insects so I just never was either. I've never had an ant, cockroach, or fruit fly infestation before. I did have 1 cockroach in my house one time but my dog ate it before I decided what to do with it lol

what if a chupacabra is sucking the blood out of a friendly sanctuary goat? grounds for killing the chupacabra or just "the circle of life?

The extent to which "pests" are vectors for human diseases is vastly overstated.

@danhelman8076

7 жыл бұрын

Let's be honest. The rationale behind this video is not self-defence. It's squeamishness. Keep a clean house (especially kitchen) and any "pests" that may have found there way into your home will eventually leave of their own volition (termite are of course a different and more difficult situation).

@yumibunnii

7 жыл бұрын

Dan Helman *cough cough* ticks

I try to be as humane as possible with insects in the house. I realize they're just trying to get by, the vast majority are harmless or nearly so, and my home destroyed some of their habitat. I think, "How would I want a more powerful being to treat me if the roles were reversed?" But there are times, such as a cockroach infestation, when stronger measures are practically unavoidable.

The only spiders I think I have killed were the ones that snuck into the shower. I vividly remember one that had webbed itself into my loofa overnight. That little fucker, catching me when I'm naked and vunerable. No you may *not* have a shower with me.

Jen Journey!!

I occasionally kill spiders, because I am terrified of them! I usually don't kill them, but if they are really large I do (have someone do it that is, lol), because I'm terrified of them, especially large ones. I don't mind most other pests, except for the harmful ones. I'm so glad you did a video on this, I have been quite interested in getting other people's opinions on this subject.

I have cement floors so they are always to some degree just inherently damp so i have millipeeds on occasion and i kill them 100% of the time I just can't. Luckily I live in MA so there's next to no bugs here

Phobias suck. I'm fine with most insects, but I don't do spiders either. I hate it, but it's like... well, it is usually out of my control. I literally get death-anxiety. And it's so stupid.