Then I take a break, have a look at the list of alerts of new articles, and read / post whatever I find interesting. Then another block of work. It's effective for me, although it might not work for everyone.
Maybe a compromise could be reached by simply burying the animals rather than removing them fully. That way the nutrients would stay in the local ecosystem, but there wouldn't be any "unsightly dead carcasses".
It's been said that anything which gives you a high can become addictive, so using that definition I'd say sugar could be addictive (certainly I seem to experience a kind of "sugar withdrawal" when I try to cut it out).
Then I take a break, have a look at the list of alerts of new articles, and read / post whatever I find interesting. Then another block of work. It's effective for me, although it might not work for everyone.