My wife is the same way. She doesn't want to see anything I shoot/kill and definitely doesn't want it in the house if I skin it, so I can't eat what I shoot which sucks. I brought a couple of squirrels over to the neighbor's and he cooked them up and we ate them there but I can't keep doing that with every squirrel I shoot because his wife is not fond of that either and I don't want to keep imposing on him.
My wife has gotten used to me shooting things by now but still doesn't really like it, especially when I shoot squirrels during hunting season. She thinks they are cute. She said something about the crows & Starlings too, like "ok you got one, now what? why do you have to shoot them?". No matter what answer I give, it 's no use. With the G-hogs she has definitely accepted the fact that they cause damage and need to be dealt with. She just doesn't want to be around when I do it or doesn't want to see them dead and I respect that. Some people don't want to look at corpses of animals. It turns them off or makes them sick or whatever, or maybe gives them bad dreams, who knows.. My mom was like that too. I 'd bring a dead rabbit home when I was 14 or 15, and she 'd yell at me to leave it outside or dispose of it and said she didn't want to look at it but once my friend and I cleaned it up at his house, I brought it back and she didn't mind! It looked like some meat at the meat market her that she was used to, and she cooked it up like a chicken!
Now I can understand those animals, but I 'm pretty sure my wife would change her mind if we had rodents running around our deck or under it, especially rats. She 'd be like, you missed one! get it, get it! :-)
