So, like most people, this house has mice. Those nasty little rodents are annoying.
So, like most people, I set traps to kill the fraggers and get rid of them. It's a normal thing to do and there's nothing wrong with it...
And it's also NORMALLY a pretty clean thing.
Now, I don't use glue traps, though I have no love for disease carrying rodents, I figure if I'm going to kill them, I could at least make it quick so I use the good old fashion snap traps.
Anyway, I set one the other night and I heard it go off a few hours later...I gave no thought to it, I was in bed and I'd dump the body the next day.
What I didn't know was the stupid rodent was a jerk. It managed to line it head up just right so that when the trap went off it splattered blood and bits of something all over the place.
I wanted to do a chalk outline and take some 'CSI' pictures and post them but I couldn't find my chalk and I needed to clean the mess.
So, I'm sure some PETA freaks will want to say something about how I shouldn't be doing this but they are wrong.
They are rodents not Mickey Mouse. They invade my home, I defend it by killing them.
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actually, there are alternatives to killing the little shits that work just as good. they have sticky glue traps that work great if you put a piece of popcorn on them. that's how we caught our last mouse. then we took the little guy outside, carefully unstuck him and off he ran and never came back. i'm a person that refuses to kill things (except people). the life of the critter is just as important to it, than our lives are to us. they're just doing what they know how to do, searching for food and finding warmth/coolness. they want to bring up their little rodent families in a place that's nice, just like we want to bring up families in a nice place. the snap traps are really brutal, what a shitty way to die and just for doing something you didn't even know was wrong. cats are a far better way to get rid of mice if you feel you MUST kill them. before my cat kicked the bucket in May, he was a fantastic mouser. he just batted the mice around until they had heart-attacks, then he placed them under the dining room table for someone to find. far less messy and a more natural way for the mouse to expire. Do you get bats?
try having bats invade your home, now there's a group of tricky little bastards and it's illegal to kill them (not that i would anyway). this house gets at least one or two every year and they always find the living room and go flying about, dive bombing anyone it sees. to remove them, you have to put on thick gloves, possibly a hat, grab a large plastic cup or small bucket, wait for the little bastard to land, and then you have to cup it, slide cardboard underneath the cup, run outside, set it down, tip the cup, and run like hell back into the house.
while all little fluffy critters can be a pain in the ass, there are better ways to catch them than poison and death traps. sometimes even dogs will catch mice...
Sorry, but this isn't something I'm interested in. I don't see mice the way you do. They are pests, they carry disease and need to be killed when they invade my home. If they were endangered I would consider not killing them but as it is I have interests to protect and my books are more important than the life of a rodent. I can't humanize animals, it's just not in my nature to do. Snap traps work best, it kills them and that prevents any chance of them returning and bringing their nast with them or making more rodents I need to kill.
I killed one, years ago, with my hands...the stupid little thing was trying to get into my box of Comic Books. If it hadn't died of fright when I snatched it up I would have killed it another way. That's a line I don't like crossed, lol.
I won't kill a bat, the illegal thing is silly but my reason is they kill mice and eat mosquitoes, neither of which has any use to me.
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