Am I cruel and heartless?

[Juan Albion]

Got woken up at 4:30 this morning by a mouse trying to run off with one of my mousetraps. It was caught but not killed and was making an awful racket as it tried to get across the bathroom floor. After half an hour of staying in bed trying to ignore the noise I finally gave up and threw the mouse still in the trap outside, where it is -21C at the moment.

I'm gonna hit the sack again now while you denounce me as no better than the Nazis.

 

[algie]

Go back to bed

 

[Hiney]

I'm surprised you waited half an hour

Good work

 

[NMH]

Doesn't your house have gas?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Reminds me of the guy who hears a knock on his door the night before Xmas and opens it to find a snail carol-singing on his doorstep. Picks it up and throws it as far as he can into the distance. On Easter Sunday he hears another knock on his door opens it and the snail, on the doorstep, says 'What did you do that for?'

 

[dougdeep]

Hardly christian.

 

[Yorkie]

Mice are vermin and carry disease. You should have knocked it on the head and put it out of it's misery straight away.

 

[rospants]

Reminds me of the guy who hears a knock on his door the night before Xmas and opens it to find a snail carol-singing on his doorstep. Picks it up and throws it as far as he can into the distance. On Easter Sunday he hears another knock on his door opens it and the snail, on the doorstep, says 'What did you do that for?'

 

[cannedheat]

Mouseist

 

[cannedheat]

Mice are vermin and carry disease. You should have knocked it on the head and put it out of it's misery straight away.

So do humans Yorkie, I have a throat infection at the moment, can you knock me on the head as these paracetemol are not working. pickaxe handle should suffice.

 

[Yorkie]

So do humans Yorkie, I have a throat infection at the moment, can you knock me on the head as these paracetemol are not working. pickaxe handle should suffice.

You're not breaking into houses spreading it all the time through your faeces are you?

Or are you?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Yes.....

 

[cannedheat]

You're not breaking into houses spreading it all the time through your faeces are you?

Or are you?

No, I use there toilet and give it a good clean with bleach, then away with the family silver.

 

[Yorkie]

No, I use there toilet and give it a good clean with bleach, then away with the family silver.

Aha, so if I ever get burgled and find my toilet has been cleaned with bleach, I shall know who to blame.
Mind you, we don't have any family silver.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I used to leave cubes of cheese out to catch a mouse in a box a few years ago. I invented the trap myself, but every now and again the cheese was gone the morning after i left it. It was only after a mid-morning thought each time that i remembered that the eater of these baits was me, after a few beers of an evening and coming in ready to munch anything i could find.

Well, the mouse and i had a few giggles over that arse-up a few weeks later. We shared a few drinks, chatted about the birds that had fooled us with proposals of romance and joint bank accounts before eating us alive, talked about some cheeses we each had hidden in our bedsheets and pillowcases for birthday celebrations or newfound loves, and finished the evening with a careless whisker.

 

[Yorkie]

I used to leave cubes of cheese out to catch a mouse in a box a few years ago. I invented the trap myself, but every now and again the cheese was gone the morning after i left it. It was only after a mid-morning thought each time that i remembered that the eater of these baits was me, after a few beers of an evening and coming in ready to munch anything i could find.

Well, the mouse and i had a few giggles over that arse-up a few weeks later. We shared a few drinks, chatted about the birds that had fooled us with proposals of romance and joint bank accounts before eating us alive, talked about some cheeses we each had hidden in our bedsheets and pillowcases for birthday celebrations or newfound loves, and finished the evening with a careless whisker.

What a brilliant post.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Buy a humane mousetrap.

 

[Juan Albion]

Buy a humane mousetrap.

Not really possible. I live in two different places and am often away from here for days at a time. Could quite easily use a humane trap and find the poor little thing has had to go for days without any coke or crisps.

 

[Juan Albion]

Mice are vermin and carry disease. You should have knocked it on the head and put it out of it's misery straight away.

But I've lost my mousehammer.

You're right about the disease thing though. I've trained a couple of them to use the toilet but they just can't master the flush.

 

[dougdeep]

Why do we call some creatures vermin, when the most damage to the planet is done by humans?