Just Had To Drown A Mouse

[JimBeam]

So I'm at work and my wife calls me on the cell phone.

So I go in the back to take the call in private and I look down and see a mouse.

At first I'm like " Cool I'll take a pic and send it to my wife and she'll either freak out or get a kick out of it " but then I realize the poor bastard's stuck on some kinda sticky trap.

So I pick the trap up and there's this mouse with his snout and legs stuck to the tarp.

He's struggling to get out and he's squeaking away.

So I'm telling my wife about it and she starts to cry because she thinks it's cruel ( which of course it kinda is ).

So now I know I've gotta kill this thing but first I try and maybe pry him off by using a platic knife.

That doesn't go anywhere because I'm probably doing more harm than good so I figure I've now got 2 chooices on how to kill him. I can either drown him or I can crush him in some way.

I'm sure I dont wanna just crush him with my foot because I don't want his guts shooting everywhere but there's nothing really heavy enoug that I can just drop on him.

So I go and put him in the toilet.

I wedge the trap in the hole at the bottom and figure I'll come back in a bit and he'e done.

I go back in 5 minutes later and the son of a bitch is still, under the water, twitching !!!

So I go back out and come back later and I guess he's done.

I go out to the dumpster to chuck him, hoping maybe again to find something heavy to crush him with ( in case for some reason he's still alive ), but again nothing so I just toss him in the dumpster.

I'm not an overly compassionate person when it comes to non-pet animals in the way that I don't really think too much about cows and chickens and how they're killed or about how fur is taken but I can assure you that I'm no fan of watching anything suffer.

This mouse and I made eye contact so I hope if we ever run into each other ever again he knows I was doing him a solid.

[Judge Smails]

Did you then rip a water fountain off of the wall and throw it through the window and run outside?

[Mike Teacher]

I'm sure I dont wanna just crush him with my foot because I don't want his guts shooting everywhere but there's nothing really heavy enoug that I can just drop on him.

=

As one who has stomped a few mice to death, the guts rarely shoot out; its quick, hopefully painless to the mouse, and no warning. Exactly how I'd want to go.

My rule, and if you feel a little cognitive dissonance, so do I, I dont get myself but here it is:

I love Nature and all it gives us, which is everything, all the beauty and wonder of the living world. I feel the deepest of connections to the earth and nature and its inhabitants. Creatures great and small will attempt to enter my home. My home is mine. They can have everywhere else on the planet.

So, while I love you and respect and cherish you, mr. mouse/bug/creature, if you come into my house, prepare to die.

Cruel, but fair. Just like Nature.

[JimBeam]

Yeah but this was work so I could give a shit. My own house I might think differently.

If it was a roach or something like that I probably don't give it a second thought but a mouse kinda has a personality.

Although I've usually captured spiders and thrown them out the door more than killing them.

[Friday]

:glurps:


since i have had my kitten he has trapped and killed two mice. both when the weather suddenly turned cold, so they must have come in seeking warmth.

by the time i find them, they are long gone and he is just batting them around and having fun.

poor little mousies...

http://www.benadams.com/picturesALL/10152004cute_mouse.jpg

[Mike Teacher]

Oh you did great. Great story. I'd still be playing with it at work. My rant was about my home.

She cried?

:Ron voice: '...so hot...'

[JimBeam]

Yeah she hung up and didnt call back until she knew I was done.

LOL

What's funny is if she didn't call I wouldn't have gone in the back for privacy and probably wouldn't have seen the mouse.

So either she got him killed or she saved him from suffering.

I'll let her mull it over.

[PapaBear]

I used to execute hot dogs with one of these when I was a kid. Maybe it work for mice, too.

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/1/0/2/5/6/webimg/119707664_o.jpg

[Team_Ramrod]

What's you're address?

I'm sending someone to talk to you about this.... you know what happened to Mike Vick when he decided to drown something, right?

[Jughead]

http://www.juliezickefoose.com/blog/uploaded_images/mouse-725172.jpg Im dead now....:flush:

[Tall_James]

What a shitty way to spend a Saturday.

[damainer]

Just cruel, cruel people. The mouse wouldnt eat much

[A.J.]

You should have just pet it really, really hard.

http://www.sho.com/site/itv/itv-assets/10251/10251_01_272w.jpg

[Recyclerz]

Who would have thought there would ever be a thread on the internets where this would actually be on point? (well, sort of)

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Not me.

[SatCam]

If it was a roach or something like that I probably don't give it a second thought but a mouse kinda has a personality.


Mustve been one charmin motherfuckin mouse