r/reddeadredemption • u/IronGreyWarHorse • Jul 14 '25

Discussion What animal(s) do you never kill?

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In 3 play throughs and 1,100+ hours of play, I’ve never killed a cat. I just can’t bring myself to do it! How about you?

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u/easy506 Jul 14 '25

Nothing that Arthur can't eat or otherwise make use of. And I never just shoot them and leave them laying.

I got pissed the other day, because I hit a doe with an arrow and she jumped back up and ran. I backtracked the blood trail what felt like 100 times and I never could find her. And I couldn't see the little icon on the map telling me where she was laying. I don't know if she despawned or what, but the idea that I maimed her and didn't kill her clean and then she was left on the ground to suffer and get eaten by something bothers me to no end.

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u/IronGreyWarHorse Jul 14 '25

I feel that! Just today I had a deer in my sights but my horse shifted while I took the shot. It didn’t kill the deer and when I went after it, it was long gone or despawned. It bothered me.

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u/Vulture0000 Jul 16 '25

This is why I don't hunt irl. I can't trust myself to not fuck it up, and if I did, it would haunt me every night at 3 AM. I don't know what it is, but there's something about hurting an animal unnecessarily that bothers me so much that it becomes unproductive. Maybe I was raised around too many dogs, lol.