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So I caught a mouse.....
January 31, 2011 at
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Saw a mouse scampering around my garage so I got some glue traps. A little bit of peanut butter and within 45 mins I caught the sucker. His hind legs were stuck to the trap and he was bodyboarding around with his front legs. I took the trap and tossed it in the trash.
So I wake up later in the night by my dogs barking. I go down to the garage to check it out and lo and behold one of his buddies was trying a jail break and couldn't get out of the trash can (one of those rubbermaid round trash cans)! As soon as I lifted the top he took off. Mouse #1 was still in the bottom (fresh bag) twitching around. I left another trap (pack of 4!) with some more PB in the same spot.
30 minutes later I hear a "pop" sound which most likely came from the fireplace, but I go downstairs to check it out anyway. The trap I just put out 30 minutes prior is GONE but mouse #1 is still hanging out in the trash. I checked around a bit but couldn't find mouse #2 (he couldn't have gone far, stuck to the trap).
Fast forward to this morning. Still no mouse #2. Mouse #1 made a jailbreak - the trap is still in the trash but no mouse!
It's all out war now.... put down the second 2 traps - let's see if I catch anything! Hopefully my idiot dogs don't get stuck in the traps.
So I wake up later in the night by my dogs barking. I go down to the garage to check it out and lo and behold one of his buddies was trying a jail break and couldn't get out of the trash can (one of those rubbermaid round trash cans)! As soon as I lifted the top he took off. Mouse #1 was still in the bottom (fresh bag) twitching around. I left another trap (pack of 4!) with some more PB in the same spot.
30 minutes later I hear a "pop" sound which most likely came from the fireplace, but I go downstairs to check it out anyway. The trap I just put out 30 minutes prior is GONE but mouse #1 is still hanging out in the trash. I checked around a bit but couldn't find mouse #2 (he couldn't have gone far, stuck to the trap).
Fast forward to this morning. Still no mouse #2. Mouse #1 made a jailbreak - the trap is still in the trash but no mouse!
It's all out war now.... put down the second 2 traps - let's see if I catch anything! Hopefully my idiot dogs don't get stuck in the traps.
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They're the cutest little buggers. My last place was full of them. Remember one just starting at me from the corner once. But the traps were out.
That was in a country home and they seemed to come in when it got cold and moved out when it got warm. But the miserable little things also made a home in my stored old car, ate some wires and bad stuff. But it was easy to fix in a '58 Buick. Everything was. Except the single pipe master cilinder that let the brakes fail. End of car.
Get a cat, and keep it kinda hungry.
Cocaroaches are easy. Mix a lot of borax with cocoa and starch. Throw it above the cabinets, under the appliances and, if they're well populated, along the baseboards for a week or so. They'll dissapear.
When you see one there are ten you don't.
The person is talking about the fact that you left the mice alive on the glue trap (thrown out in your friggin' bin no less), so they will mutilate themselves trying to get off and starve to death. Not the fact that you're killing them.
That is just disgustingly cruel, it is torture... nothing more, nothing less.
They're not animals, hey? Then what are they, rocks? A type of vegetable? Perhaps they are super-advanced robots then?
Since when does something having disease mean it's acceptable to torture something to death? Everything carries disease, even you and me. People like you and the OP are horrible, and disgusting.
As a trapper and a human being it is your moral obligation to minimise suffering. Yes, we have to kill problem animals like pests, but you have no legitimate reason to draw out its suffering. What 'humane vote' are we talking about here? It's the friggin' decent thing to do, to kill the animal quickly once you've trapped it rather than induce torture on it (which is what the OP is doing and is what YOU are advocating - quite frankly that is PATHETIC).
This kind of bizarre, inhumane reasoning pisses me off to no end. They're animals trying to adapt to a human environment, and can't help what they are. They chew on things because it is instinctual of them, not some ill-intent plan to burn your house down. By all means kill the animals, but don't torture them to death. People who torture animals to death have issues.
It's gratuitous cruelty, nothing more. Hide it under the guise of "pest control", "oh but it has disease" or "it's icky" all you want, but it is most definitely wrong to prolong the pain of an animal like that. And if you can't see the point I'm making and say "but would you rather live with them instead" or some other strawman like that then I guess talking about humanity would be rather pointless.
Quite frankly, I hope the escaped mouse haunts the OP to give him a life lesson - do not be cruel to animals, because what goes around comes around.
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They're not animals, hey? Then what are they, rocks? A type of vegetable? Perhaps they are super-advanced robots then?
Since when does something having disease mean it's acceptable to torture something to death? Everything carries disease, even you and me. People like you and the OP are horrible, and disgusting.
As a trapper and a human being it is your moral obligation to minimise suffering. Yes, we have to kill problem animals like pests, but you have no legitimate reason to draw out its suffering. What 'humane vote' are we talking about here? It's the friggin' decent thing to do, to kill the animal quickly once you've trapped it rather than induce torture on it (which is what the OP is doing and is what YOU are advocating - quite frankly that is PATHETIC).
This kind of bizarre, inhumane reasoning pisses me off to no end. They're animals trying to adapt to a human environment, and can't help what they are. They chew on things because it is instinctual of them, not some ill-intent plan to burn your house down. By all means kill the animals, but don't torture them to death. People who torture animals to death have issues.
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but in all seriousness, is this guy for real?
They're not animals, hey? Then what are they, rocks? A type of vegetable? Perhaps they are super-advanced robots then?
Since when does something having disease mean it's acceptable to torture something to death? Everything carries disease, even you and me. People like you and the OP are horrible, and disgusting.
As a trapper and a human being it is your moral obligation to minimise suffering. Yes, we have to kill problem animals like pests, but you have no legitimate reason to draw out its suffering. What 'humane vote' are we talking about here? It's the friggin' decent thing to do, to kill the animal quickly once you've trapped it rather than induce torture on it (which is what the OP is doing and is what YOU are advocating - quite frankly that is PATHETIC).
This kind of bizarre, inhumane reasoning pisses me off to no end. They're animals trying to adapt to a human environment, and can't help what they are. They chew on things because it is instinctual of them, not some ill-intent plan to burn your house down. By all means kill the animals, but don't torture them to death. People who torture animals to death have issues.
It's gratuitous cruelty, nothing more. Hide it under the guise of "pest control", "oh but it has disease" or "it's icky" all you want, but it is most definitely wrong to prolong the pain of an animal like that. And if you can't see the point I'm making and say "but would you rather live with them instead" or some other strawman like that then I guess talking about humanity would be rather pointless.
Quite frankly, I hope the escaped mouse haunts the OP to give him a life lesson - do not be cruel to animals, because what goes around comes around.
Quoted per lounge rules....and Screenshots just incase
( sorry had to bold the funniest parts...)
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Oh and FTR, not that it matters or that I really care but I use an electric trap which is the most humane of all them. Although I only use it because it's quick, it works and no mess to clean up..
Quite frankly, I hope the escaped mouse haunts the OP to give him a life lesson - do not be cruel to animals, because what goes around comes around.
Oh and FTR, not that it matters or that I really care but I use an electric trap which is the most humane of all them. Although I only use it because it's quick, it works and no mess to clean up..
After that we got the traps. Ugh, just the thought of mice in the house
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