# Which animals are evil, which animals are good? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230 "2005-06-14T16:13:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/41 "2005-06-14T19:51:45Z")
Pidgeons are nought but winged rats. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/42 "2005-06-14T19:53:32Z")
Evil: Humans Good: Everything else ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/43 "2005-06-14T19:58:07Z")
Harbor seals are good. California sea lions are good. ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/44 "2005-06-14T20:05:27Z")
Penguins are good. Except for Feathers McGraw. (Have you seen this chicken?) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/45 "2005-06-14T20:11:50Z")
Evil: Ticks Water Moccassins Albatroses Those worms that cache their eggs outside your anus Rats Leeches Dingos Hyenas Leopard Seals Good: Hummingbirds Honey Bees Rabbits Dove Titmice Wrens Buffalo Clown Perculas ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/46 "2005-06-14T20:17:58Z")
Good: meerkats, otters Evil: scorpions, [eye worms](http://maven.smith.edu/~sawlab/fgn/pnb/loaloa.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/47 "2005-06-14T20:23:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Robert E. Howard, writing in a Lovecraftian vein, implied that another bird was evil in the short story “Pigeons From Hell” (I kid you not). Having spent a lot of time in NYC, I can agree. That story scared the crap out of me. Probably the best zombie-themed fiction I’ve read. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/48 "2005-06-14T20:34:49Z")
Oh, puffins are good, too. Unless you’re afraid of clowns. Then you’re probably afraid they’ll eat you, so are actually evil. But they won’t, so they aren’t. Angler fish are evil. But archer fish are cool. Reptiles, in general, tend to be evil. Parasites of any sort are evil. Locusts are really evil. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/49 "2005-06-14T20:38:45Z")
Outdoors and not in their native environment, **cats** are unmitigatedly evil and should be shot on sight; however, indoors or in their native environment, cats are pretty good, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/50 "2005-06-14T21:08:27Z")
Ya know, Oppussums look evil but I’m convinced they’re good. Now, those evil Koalas are the marsupials to watch out for. Kangaroos also seem evil to me-- Just waiting to sucker punch you in the stomach with a double kick. Sloths also have a decidely evil look, as well as sharing a name in a deadly sin, but I think they are decidely good and law abiding creatures. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/51 "2005-06-14T21:13:01Z")
Orcas are evil. If you don’t believe me, watch the BBC’s Blue Planet series. EVIL. Coelacanths are good. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/52 "2005-06-14T21:16:29Z")
The Evilness of the Sage Rat: Rat nose: Large. Rat boogers! Rat eyes: Sunken. BEADY. Glows red in photgraphs from the front =o Rat mouth: Overbite! And that silly sunken chin. Rat EARS: Big. Not a nice round shape like Mickey. Eeevillllll Rat body: Scrawny! Nothin uglier than a bony rat Rat fingers: Ratty could use a nail clipping Rat butt: Furry. Best not to think about it :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/53 "2005-06-14T22:05:24Z")
The Rats of NIMH were good, though. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/54 "2005-06-14T22:21:48Z")
Then there is this odd dichotomy: Head Lice good Pubic Lice evil ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/55 "2005-06-14T22:44:44Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > Evil: Humans > > Good: Everything else You said it! ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/56 "2005-06-14T22:50:31Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > The Rats of NIMH were good, though. The Rats of NIMH are the only good rats in the history of the universe. Every other rat is completely, utterly, and unashamedly evil. Rabbits are good though. And don’t even try to bring up General Woundwort. He was an abberation, a very unrabbit-like rabbit. Other rabbits are good. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/57 "2005-06-14T22:54:17Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > Head Lice good :eek: How comes? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/58 "2005-06-14T22:57:44Z")
> [@Cemetery Savior](#): > > Evil: > [ul] > [li]Praying Mantises[/li][li]Stoats[/li][li]Mink[/li][li]Opossums[/li][li]Rabbits[/li][/ul] NO! NO! OPOSSUMS ARE GOOD! Pogo is your _friend_! ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/59 "2005-06-14T23:05:45Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > :eek: How comes? They are pure of heart. ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/60 "2005-06-14T23:31:49Z")
OK, the Native American view, y’all. We don’t see anything as evil/good per se, BUT, different Nations are disturbed by the appearance of certain animals. For example, and owl is the bringer of bad news and bad luck, for lack of a better term, for my people. My wife’s people really dig owls, but mistrust snakes. Also to be considered are tricksters (with apologies to Twickster) who are neither good nor bad but are deceptive and sometimes put you in a bad place to teach you a lesson. At second glance, that does seem to describe our beloved co-conspirator, doesn’t it. Coyote is a well known trickster, as is Raven for many. My people consider the Rabbit, which so many of you think are cuddly and adorable, is the biggest trickster of all. Mssrs.Python were sage advisors. Have a care for the big sharp teeth, and grenades are effective. Hawk (the Real, the Original…accept no substitutes, except perhaps Hawkeyejo) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230.md?page=4)