Joined Nov 2005
L10: Grand Master
Forum Thread
So I caught a mouse.....
January 31, 2011 at
05:30 AM
in
Rant
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.
142 Comments
Your comment cannot be blank.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
I will have to check into one of those, I like the no mess part. I am so glad I am married, if there is a dead mouse DH is the one to deal with it or kill it if it is still alive. My DH is fast, the first time we had a mouse in our house we were watching a movie and saw it scamper past near the door and he bolted after it so fast he caught it! He has done that twice. He then takes the mouse out the door and throws it as far as he can, he swears it would have died when it landed I told him they are going to come back and make a million more mice in our attic.
After that we got the traps. Ugh, just the thought of mice in the house
Do NOT click on the other images, they have an actual mouse caught in the trap...
http://www.amazon.com/Victor-M252...gy_k_img
Do NOT click on the other images, they have an actual mouse caught in the trap...
http://www.amazon.com/Victor-M252...gy_k_img
( sorry had to bold the funniest parts...)
I don't know what is so hard to understand here - dragging out a creature's misery like that just makes one a monster. If you have to kill it, fine, but be quick and painless about it at least. Letting it writhe and squirm in a garbage bin while it pulls its skin off and breaks its bones is inhumane torture - that someone would opt to do that to a living creature is f'ed up, and defending this makes look one the fool (or a sociopath lacking basic human empathy).
After all, you were the one who disagreed on having the mouse not suffer. So torturing the poor thing is fine then? Speaks volumes, it really really does...
Perhaps you can explain to us what is so funny about what exactly you bolded there? I shouldn't have to be explaining stuff to you a child would understand (that animal abuse is wrong). But given the fact you said rodents aren't animals, perhaps that is not surprising.
And hmm..
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem killing mice. But I have a problem with people being inhumane and abusive about it. I recall a story on someone using a glue trap, where he caught the mouse and decided to burn it alive. The glue melted, the mouse bolted and ran back into his house, causing it to go up in flames. There's some poetic justice for you, it never pays to be cruel to animals like that.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
I don't know what is so hard to understand here - dragging out a creature's misery like that just makes one a monster. If you have to kill it, fine, but be quick and painless about it at least. Letting it writhe and squirm in a garbage bin while it pulls its skin off and breaks its bones is inhumane torture - that someone would opt to do that to a living creature is f'ed up, and defending this makes look one the fool (or a sociopath lacking basic human empathy).
After all, you were the one who disagreed on having the mouse not suffer. So torturing the poor thing is fine then? Speaks volumes, it really really does...
Perhaps you can explain to us what is so funny about what exactly you bolded there? I shouldn't have to be explaining stuff to you a child would understand (that animal abuse is wrong). But given the fact you said rodents aren't animals, perhaps that is not surprising.
Yeah, I thought so. You have absolutely no argument, so please stop wasting my time with this childish "rofl hurr durr this iz funniez" rubbish and leave the adults to discuss this. I'm still waiting for what kind of excuses the OP can come up with.
This guy, though, was well stuck and already dead by the time I got to him this morning. Good thing my dogs didn't find him first.
This guy, though, was well stuck and already dead by the time I got to him this morning. Good thing my dogs didn't find him first.
I don't know why you left that first mouse just to sit and suffer in your garbage bin, but that is just a low thing to do. Shame on you.
At least there were posts by the Tree person... very entertaining!
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.