We have caught the mouse with the sticky traps. He was sprawled out among
the poison and firmly entrenched within the glue. Poor little thing. No larger
than your toe. I could see one of its beady black eyes looking at me, the other
side of his face was down. My mother did not know if he was still alive, so I blew
a gentle breath on him and could see his tiny tummy hairs move and ripple about.
I ran my finger slowly down his back and the response I got was a shiver. Then
he struggled in vain to break free and escape. Each movement only serving
to further cement him in place. I felt so very bad. I mean, this is torture, is it not?
I wanted to kill him quickly but my mother does not trust me and thought that
I might let him get away. So now the poor fellow has to suffer the pain of
agony and despair until my father gets home to finish him off.
In a way this is a shame, for he was so very quick and brilliant to elude us for
so long. He has earned his life as far as I am concerned. How can you hate a
a fighter, and kill a survivor? No matter their size, shape or purpose. We were
not here before them. I told my mother this, and asked her how she would feel
if someone had trapped and treated her that way? She told me that she does
not run around in other people's houses. I have been laughing ever since.
The End.
This story made me sad :(
mice are so cute and it is pretty inhumane for it to just lay on a sticky trap till it has someone finally put it out of it's misery
I know I still feel awful and I cannot stop thinking about it. saddood;
Last year we trapped a mouse in our apartment by covering its mouse hole with tape, then caught it on a sticky trap. I couldn't bring myself to let it die like that, so I grabbed it by the tail and tore it off the glue (brutal, I know, but better than slow death?) to fling it out the door. The fucker sank his teeth into me! Then I hurled him as far as I could into the snow./
I laughed at the ending.
This reminds me of when I was a kid and I went with a group of children to this crazy lady's house. She had a little farm/ranch in her back yard. That day she had caught in a trap cage a squirrel that she had been after for stealing eggs from her chicken coop. She put the cage into an empty well, and then released a plug which allowed the well to flood with water, drowning the squirrel. As the water rose he became more frantic and panicked, until he hit his limit and with all us children gathered around the well to watch, we saw his life gently fade away, his pupils growing wide until nearly the entirety of his eyes were black.
A few seconds after he had stopped moving, the squirrel jerked his head to the side, looking me straight in the face with one last brain synapse.
Quote from: vziard on November 16, 2011, 05:42:51 PM
Last year we trapped a mouse in our apartment by covering its mouse hole with tape, then caught it on a sticky trap. I couldn't bring myself to let it die like that, so I grabbed it by the tail and tore it off the glue (brutal, I know, but better than slow death?) to fling it out the door. The fucker sank his teeth into me! Then I hurled him as far as I could into the snow./
The one time I killed it quickly while it was still trapped I took an old broom handle and placed one tip near its neck, then I pressed down hard and quick until I heard a crunch. To my amazement, the mouse shit himself.
socks, just drown it... dont break its neck ;---;
Quote from: Nurse Hensa on November 16, 2011, 08:43:35 PM
socks, just drown it... dont break its neck ;---;
That's even more inhumane.
Quote from: Socks on November 16, 2011, 08:45:21 PM
That's even more inhumane.
i thought it might be better? i dunno im not an expert at killing anything.
Quote from: Nurse Hensa on November 16, 2011, 08:46:45 PM
i thought it might be better? i dunno im not an expert at killing anything.
How exactly is prolonging its death better? Breaking its neck is nearly instantaneous death, or at least paralysis and then death, so it won't really feel anything until it dies.
Drowning takes much longer.
I would much rather die instantly.
Quote from: Nurse Hensa on November 16, 2011, 08:46:45 PM
i thought it might be better? i dunno im not an expert at killing anything.
Well drowning is suffocating, which is a prolonged and excruciating affair. Death by paralysis is at least somewhat more 'clinical'.
whoa jeez ok
You're funny when you're drunk.
you have no idea n_u i like you socks, i really do
Yes we would have a great night but will you still like me in the morning?
do you still enjoy chocolate milk in the morning after drinking some the night before?
i think so.
That is actually. . . beautiful.
just like the hoodie and socks you sent me a few years ago hocuspocus;
You know, to send that to you I had to jaywalk across my neighborhood to another post office because the one I went to first was only a distribution center and therefore it was so horribly inefficient that it only did one kind of thing.
you actually did that?
also, oh look what im wearing giggle;
(http://i.imgur.com/YfZLf.png)
Quote from: Nurse Hensa on November 16, 2011, 09:52:52 PM
you actually did that?
Yes and if you remember it was a brown box terribly wrapped up with tape and I had to carry that all along the way and I felt I was on a mission.
Quote from: Nurse Hensa on November 16, 2011, 09:52:52 PM
also, oh look what im wearing giggle;
I'd rather look at something else. But I can't believe you still have it!
Quote from: Echo on November 16, 2011, 05:39:26 PM
This story made me sad :(
mice are so cute and it is pretty inhumane for it to just lay on a sticky trap till it has someone finally put it out of it's misery
You say that because you don't know all the diseases mice spread with their poop as they poop all over the house if you let 'em--including in your food pantry. Google up "hanta virus". Their cousins, rats, were responsible for the decimation of Europe's population back in the day.
The mice around here managed to roll themselves out of even rat glue traps but come out near-bald, so it's not wise to leave them in the glue trap of any sort for any great length of time. I save pasta sauce jars which are big enough to accommodate mouse and rat glue trap, close the lid, whereupon they suffocate even if they do escape the glue trap.
Not everything that glitters is gold and not everything cute is innocent of being a threat to your health...or public health, for that matter.
Quote from: Clara Listensprechen on November 17, 2011, 10:05:28 AM
You say that because you don't know all the diseases mice spread with their poop as they poop all over the house if you let 'em--including in your food pantry. Google up "hanta virus". Their cousins, rats, were responsible for the decimation of Europe's population back in the day.
The mice around here managed to roll themselves out of even rat glue traps but come out near-bald, so it's not wise to leave them in the glue trap of any sort for any great length of time. I save pasta sauce jars which are big enough to accommodate mouse and rat glue trap, close the lid, whereupon they suffocate even if they do escape the glue trap.
Not everything that glitters is gold and not everything cute is innocent of being a threat to your health...or public health, for that matter.
I happen to have a strong strong interest in infectious diseases so I know all about mice as a disease vector, and hanta virus and all that stuff.
They are still cute though