A young woman said she released her boyfriend’s ant farm into the wild after she witnessed him pretty much torturing them.
She’s asking the internet for help while everyone insists this guy is a psycho and she needs to dump him.
“So my boyfriend has an ant farm, and I’m not sure how much he paid for them but the ants are also fancy, bigger than normal ones (I’m not sure the name of the breed though),” she started out by explaining.
The ants give her the creeps, she admits, so she doesn’t spend her time willingly watching what he actually does with them.
“…But I and a friend were at his house watching a movie because he has a better tv than me, and he was in another room with the ants.”
Her friend got up to use the bathroom, and on her way back she saw this woman’s boyfriend sitting at his desk.
She decided to peek in on him and see what he was doing in there all alone.
“He had a shallow tray of water and was using a piece of wire to hold an ant under. She said he was releasing it then re-dunking it,” she continued.
“I thought that was really weird but didn’t say anything, and I later told another friend about it who said he might have been testing how deep he can have a water bowl for them without them drowning…”
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She says that really doesn’t make sense to her at all though. She began watching what he did with the ants, and she noticed he did a few different things that were quite cruel.
“He found red ants outside and put a bunch of them in a tub with one of his ants and watched his ant get attacked and eaten,” she explained.
“I drew the line when he put one in the microwave and confronted him, and he told me I was being a baby.”
When he was asleep one night, she took the ants from their container and released them into the yard before going back to her house.
She knows he’s going to be furious with her for what she did, but so far he has not called her or reached out to her at all.
“I feel bad because they weren’t my property and I never really had an in-depth convo with him before releasing them, and the ants probably aren’t native which isn’t great either.”
“I’d be extremely pissed if anyone took away or released my pets behind my back before properly talking to me first, but at the same time he was being cruel, so I don’t know.”
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“This was so much worse than I thought. I’m not an ant person. Or a bug person. But nothing deserves that sort of treatment.”
“Thought this would something along the lines of releasing them out of spite, but dude is torturing these poor ants for what it seems like is his own pleasure.”
“Animal cruelty is a sign of being a psychopath, I would be concerned…”
“Came here to tell someone off for ruining someone’s hobby they didn’t like. Left here cheering at the fight against animal torture.”
“This is some serious psychotic behavior.”
“He sounds horrible. This is how serial killers can start out. Please get away from him. This is a huge red flag. It’s animal cruelty. Please, leave him.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say to her here.
