;-; oh god, I would do this too.


I remember when I was 8 or so this girl broke a duck egg she found in the park and it died. I cried for a long time afterward.

Yes... I did that to grasshoppers and locusts, but you probably didnt eat the legs after :P

I know never mean to hurt snail

-hugs-

Heartbreaking life lessons...

Awww... yeah sometimes children have to learn these things the hard way.

Poor little Gemmy... I wanna hug her and never let her go! *hugs the squiggle*

aaawwwww pooor lil gem

*snuggles*
*wile snuggling swaps it for a slug*

Don't cry Gemma… *hugs*

Awwww don´t be sad Gem. I tried those things to as I was a little cub.

*hugs Gemma*

I remember before I moved away from the country my Cat was accidently hit by a car...

My folks took her to the vet and had her put down because it was cheaper for them...

The told me flat out what they did and I wanted another cat, my dad said no and refused any attempt to get another one, I hated my dad for it and I hated my mom as well because it was that one part of my life I felt the loneliest.

I still felt really lonely growing up, I missed the companionship of a pet, and after years of being told I cannot have a pet I moved out and the first thing I did was Buy a cage and got my Pet Rats.

when I was younger I liked animals, I never harmed them or anything, I could walk up to a wild skunk and pet it rub it's belly and play with it and it would play with me. I even had a Pet Bat that used to fly into my room and sleep in my closet. My folks chased him away.

my great grandmother had a Pet seagull, Porcupine and Skunk at her place before we moved her into a siniors home, and they all moved up to see her.

I think it's a family gift ^^'

Jeez... Your great grandmother must have been really cool

you dunno the half of it ^^"

sounds like your family has been blessed with love from the animals ^^

thanks ^^

I'd had to take my own cat to be put down...it was...hard.

And we'd done everything we could. He passed painlessly.

I remember when I was little me and friends used to take toy swords and sticks at night. We'd go out and hit fireflies and they'd glow as they went darting into the distance. After a while I started feeling horrible about it. <:c

We all learn the cycle of life at a young age, For some its a crash course, for others its gradual......

Well.. It's better to learn sooner than later. Life always hits you like a ton of bricks. :/

yet among the small we are gods even as a infant. curosity kills the cat or the snail in this case.
but overall your always cute.

I did bad stoof too...

So many feels. Ow. Ow my heart. T_T

I think we all done things we regretted when we were younger.
Life lessons can be sad and hard to understand.

As long as were there to help each other, it makes things easier. *huggles*

poor gem!

Baby I know you were just trying to help him but he liked having that on his back, it was his house you wouldn't like it very much if people came along with a big stick and slowly poked at you until you left your house?

No baby I'm sorry, I can't wake him up; he's always going to be asleep, some people think when you go to sleep like this a little bit of you leaves this world for a better place, other people think you move on becoming a new animal or flower.

But for now baby don't worry, I know you didn't mean to be bad, you didn't know any better; if you had asked before hand I probably could have helped more.

Yes baby, yo do need to sit in the naughty corner, you know you've been bad enough already and I can see how upset you are, so after you've had your time out why don't you come out here and we'll see what if anything we can do for this little guy.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

I remember a long time ago at the zoo I accidentally stepped on a bird and killed it.

How it pains me to think of it even now!

we raised chickens, and when I was toddler I would always get irritated by the roosters because I felt like they were giving me the stink eye. So sometimes I would go into the pen and chase after them so they would stop acting so superior, but no matter how intimidating I was they would still crow and act all full of themselves. :P

I don't recall ever hurting them, just chasing them about and a lot of yelling. But it was still pretty stoopid. xD

Awww, I know you didn't mean to hurt the snail Gem. *hugs Gem gently*

aww poor thing. this reminds me of the episode of rugrats. when chucky had a pet bug melvel and it dies. like omg the only episode that ever made e cry XD the episode is on youtube.

Even though I don't really like snails or slugs this pic really saddens me : ( I used to always kill spiders on sight because they creeped me out so much but coming across he cuteness that is jumping spiders has kind of changed my view of them since my youth. I still find other species of spider unsettling at times but I usually now take them outside.

life is a fragile circle that we both watch and take part in.....

Naivety is good and bad. It shields ya from the bad, but sometimes you might wind up doing harmful things....

The shadenfreude. It fills me~

poor gem :(

awww the thing about the bird was very teary for me Gemma *Hugs*

:( it hurts knowing what we did in the past before we could understand, but there isnt much we can do other than vent our frustrations and cry and then morn the loss :( but at least if you feel the remourse you are human, right?

I played that game once. Wasn't much fun.

http://atariage.com/2600/carts/c_Sn.....lish_front.jpg

Seriously though, I remember one time when I was about, uh, six or seven? It's been a while, anyway. I found a tiny little frog while on summer vacation, and handed it to my brother so I could go down a slide. He put the frog on the slide while I was going down it, and... yeah, I made frog pancakes that day.

Also, I put a frog in the freezer one day, thinking that it could survive indefinitely in cryonic statis and be revived just by thawing it. Luckily, my mother discovered it and freed it before any permanent damage could be done.

Actually, wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) can do that second thing. It's how they hibernate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_frog

This reminds me of Elmyra Duff giving her pet goldfish a soapy bath and walking it on a leash on the street trying to be nice to the fish. I hope Gem's way with animals will not meet up to that of Elmyra.

Aaaaawwwwwww........ poor Gem

You've had your brush with death too, have you?

I did that too many times... Also my mom say same with a doggie I had and knowing the truth years ago ;w;

Don't Gem! (pick her up give her a hug)

Don't worry, snails do regenerate their shell

Only if it's broken, that's the slime they extrude and it can repair the shell but unfortunately snails internal bits and heart are attached to the shell so if the snail get's poked out completely like ... uh .. this, the snail will die.

I think it's important for cubs not to know that those things are really living things at that age... because stuff like the does happen, but I worry about a cub that realized it had just murdered another living thing. That could seriously scar a cub. So .. although we regret it later.. (as we should) ... it's better than realizing in the moment..

This pic made me sad, *Scoops up the little cub* "Mr. Snail doesn't want to play with you anymore because you stole his house. That's not a good, we better tell him sorry, and then leave him alone." *Waits for gem to appologize and then brings the cub elsewhere to play*

Im sorree mr snail for breakin yoor house. I will make yoo a new one when I go home with sparkly bits and stickers on it

Good girl. *snugs and takes away the little cub*

I'm not sure I did that when I was young.