The sounds of my daughter having a meltdown in the next room because her dad sprayed some ants in the back yard.
She can't bear to have anything die, even ants or mosquitoes.
I freaked out the other day.
My youngest girl and a friend screaming in the garden because of a big spider (as far as they do get big here).
I said I was coming, and saw the friend hitting with a giant stick 20 cm to the left and the right of the spider to chase it away I thought.
But she was aiming for the kill. (Very bad aimer, but she succeeded before I was there, and was still beating up the dead carcass when I got there.)
Told her to not kill spiders in my garden again.
She was like: "but I was afraid". I said: "That spider was probably afraid of you, and with lots of good reason too, it's dead now."
I kept calm, but internally I was freaking out.
My youngest is terrified of spiders in the house, but she always wants to be sure that I do not kill them. And is sad every time one gets accidentally killed.
Mosquitoes, she is over that now, because she reacts bad on the biting. Though as a wee kid she could watch me hunt them down and comment: "Ah, look at it, it's like a tiny helicopter, so cute."
And she freaks out because of flies, she doesn't freak out of mosquitoes, she does of the simple houseflies, yet she does not want them killed.
She has no problem with a spider eating a fly, because then it is killing for food.
