RIP little mousie

[JcP]

So I was awakened about a week ago to rustling in my kitchen. At first I dismissed it as just random building noise like a can shifting in the trash or something, but the rustling continued and then it dawned on me that there was a creature in there.

got up and looked around...nothing. Found a HUGE hole under my sink and ducttaped it shut. Figured if there was a mouse or rat (!!) in there, he'd have to chew through it so I'd know for sure tomorrow.

Couple days later, no chewing.

So two nights ago I was sitting on my couch and I heard rustling by the dogfood bag. I turned to look and I saw a shadow bolt and I nearly pissed myself. I'm not scared of mice/rats, but any animal moving in the darkness at 2am is shocking.

I bought some mousetraps and waited. Nothing happened.

Tonight I was sitting at my computer and I see a shadow bolt from my couch to under my air conditioning then back under my couch.

That was the last straw. I went and bought more traps and set em up....about three hours later I caught the mouse.


In my haste to get rid of the little fucker, I didn't stop to question the morality of killing something that was just trying to survive. I justify it because a bite to me or my dog could have been a serious issue, but none-the-less, my joy at ridding my apartment of the spooky shadow in the night was shortlived and replaced by a saddness that I just killed a creature.

Anyway, just sharing. And if the mouse is listening from mousie-heaven: I'm sorry bro, but you were freaking me out darting around my dark apartment.

[GirlsHateMe]

ive had to glue trap mice before...

I agree its about the worst feeling you can have to kill something that isnt there to bother you, it just wants some food...

I supposed there are traps that dont involve killing, problem is, they seem to come right back in...

im glad I dont have to deal with it anymore, but I still feel bad about the few I had to kill...

[Dozer McDozer]

yall should cry on each others shoulders

nah but srsly, i donts like killins neither

[sput·nik]

i was renting a house & the previous old lady who lived there must have been a compassionate type, cause the basement was littered with live-catch traps.


too bad she never checked them though, cause there were about 4 mousies trapped total, and though they sure must've been nice & alive for awhile, those there traps didn't worry too much about the need for the mice to go on eating, given a lazy trapkeeper.


silly old lady.

[Captain Cannabis]

glue traps are absolutely the most horrible way to kill a mouse

[SpankyMcLankey]

I've used glue traps, but only for bugs.

I usually never see mice. To be honest, I've never put that much thought into it either. If I felt bad for killing an animal it would be something bigger than a mouse.

[GirlsHateMe]

glue traps are almost the only given option for field mice who are to small to set off regular traps as well as most other traps...

poison isnt an option because theres no telling where they end up dead leaving a horrible smell...

[Captain Cannabis]

live traps too expensive?

[GirlsHateMe]

like I said, field mice have a problem with not setting traps off correctly...

[Captain Cannabis]

hire a ninja

[SmokeSomeDoja]

it could have been eaten alive and played with while slowly dying.

[Canuck Wisdom]

Eewwwww, imagine swallowing a living mouse?!


ewewewewewewewww

[Flamingnun]

Originally Posted by JcP

I justify it because a bite to me or my dog could have been a serious issue

S'aint medieval times nigga.


Really though, get a cat, anything that moves/crawls/flies in your house will be automatically erased. You may or may not (read: will) get assorted parts of birds/mice scattered about your home as a "gift" though.


But in all seriousness it's nowhere near as enjoyable as trying not to damage anything important in your living room while using these to solve the problem;

[Captain Cannabis]

make sure you dont get a lazy cat

[JcP]

allergic to cats.

and while my dog is a terrier and therefore born to be a "ratter", he's too lazy to do anything.

[Logan's Heroes]

Caught a mouse in my old apartment once by cornering it with some boxes. Kept it for about a week in an old fish tank... named it Indiana Jones cause it escaped twice. It even ran up my roommates arm when he was dropping some celery in the fish tank. Fuckin thing ran up his arm and lept off his shoulder like an ace...

That was the last straw. I popped him in a tupperware container... brought him over to my college campus a few miles away to let him go. I set him free... but not before I shook the container for a solid 10 seconds. He pissed inside of it as a result of the shaking... but was unharmed. I think he learned to appreciate his freedom... but to not fuck with me and my apartment again.

[SpankyMcLankey]

the absolute worst thing i have ever done that is still regret to this day would be my brothers idea. we had this hamster that looked like an escimo, and it was one of our favorite little guys. then my cat got a hold of it, and he got a broken arm. we tried using plaster paper stuff to make a cast for him. it did work really well but only lasted about a day or so.

so we decided he was in too much pain so we wanted to put him out of his misery.

we put him in a plastic container and put a smoke bomb in it after it was smoking and then we sealed up the container.

i can hear the scratches against the walls of the container echoing in my head to this day. i don't really think it lasted long at all but any amount of time for that poor little bugger must have been hell.

i feel really bad about it. it was the best thing we could think of... i mean he was walking around on a broken arm. it was terribly saddening.