heck, just report me to the SPCA .....

[Raglet]

I am totally traumatised. After a wee mouse moved into our kitchen, I eventually gave up on ever catching it and relocating it outside, so I had to trap it.

I feel absolutely AWFUL !!!!!! I am a total animal lover, and have previously chased a mouse that the cat brought in, and I managed to drop a box over the top of it then release it outside. But this time, I just couldn't do that, hence the trap. M~U~R~D~E~R~E~R !!!!!!!

I know I am an absolute wuss, but I just keep telling myself 'this time yesterday the little mouse was still alive'. Honestly, I am totally pathetic ! This is the first time we have ever had a mouse take up residence in the house, and definitely the first time I have killed anything like this.

I am a bad person ! I am sure the SPCA will be thundering down my drive way at any moment. It was just a tiny little field mouse, sniff, but it just couldn't live in our kitchen.

oh well, guess this is one time when i really do have to toughen up. The wee mouse had a burial at sea (via the internal plumbing) the last thing I needed was one of the cats to find it and bring it inside again. The funny thing is that our cat who practically lives in the kitchen totally ignored the mouse while it was here, now she is strutting up and down the kitchen looking very proud. Not sure how a cat looks proud, but she manages it (as does my golden retriever when he finds an old set of dried up seagull bones on the beach that he picks up and trots around with - he's bred to retrieve birds, and it shows by the spring in his step).

ok, i'm done now, going to see Harry Potter tonight so that should take my mind off it


raglet

[acard]

Raglet,:there:
You had to do what you had to do-Call it "Survival of the fittest". Where there is one mouse, there soon could be a little family of mice partying in your kitchen. Not to be gross, but they like to leave behind little tiny body excrements.

I hope you enjoyed the movies. I have not been in a theatre in 2 years-we wait to buy it on DVD. It is soooo expensive here to go the movies so we just buy them. Our DD will go with friends, but DH and I wait patiently;) .

Have a great weekend,
Becca:hehe:

[wifajax]

Raglet -

I know just what you mean about the defenseless little mouse. I work for a large retailer, and we sometimes get "visitors" in our garden center. They find the bags of grass seed particularly tasty. Obviously, our image might be tarnished if a guest saw a furry face hiding amongst the bags, so we have a company trap for us.

Unfortunately, they use sticky traps that hold the poor babies in place for what seems to me to be unnecessary suffering. I wish they would use something...well...quicker than starvation and dehydration.

Hopefully you won't get any new residents in your kitchen, and you won't have to murder another mousie.

Terri

[sam101360]

Raglet:

I know how you feel...we had the cat bring one in and he took up residence in our bedroom. The cats would chase it, just for the fun of it I think as they never caught it, however with both animals being nocturnal, and the blighter being in my bedroom...well I thinnk you get the picture!

We did buy a humane trap you put the food (peanut butter) inside then set the flap, in goes the mouse, down goes the flap! No more mouse in the house!

The cats let us know when the the mouse was in the trap with their yowrling and we took him out and released him into...yes...my annoying neighbors yard!!!!

Oh well...I do know how you feel. ENJOY THE MOVIE!!!

Love Stephanie

[Raglet]

omg Stephanie, can you get traps that keep the mouse alive ? I would love that, if there is a next time. I must remember that - killing the little blighter (even though it was very fast, instant death) just seems so heartless.

I feel better should there be a next time - actually I think that Sammie the cat probably brought it into the house and it got away from her, she is much more interested in the chase than the kill. Actually I think she would rather chase her catnip mouse (catnip blob actually, she has mauled it so much).

nice to know there are other softies out there who hate doing this stuff too - my daughter 'knows', she heard the trap go off (in the warming draw, heck I think the whole STREET heard it with the echo of the metallic environment) but when I said to her 'the mouse has gone' she said 'it's gone outside back to it's family, right?' with that 'don't you dare tell me otherwise' look in her eye.

I really enjoyed Harry Potter - there were only two mice in it (I had been wondering)

cheers

raglet

[sam101360]

Raglet:

Here are a couple of sites to get these traps. I used the mouse depot to get mine.

http://www.abundantearth.com/store/mousetrap1.html

http://www.themousedepot.com/

http://www.seabrightlabs.com/mouse.htm

Hopefully you will not have future invasions, but it always pays to be prepared.

Stephanie

[peonyprincess]

Raglet,

You get yourself in the most awful situations! hee hee.

We have two cats and every summer we get a few mice, great. Frtunately, our cats take over the cathing them. My daughters cat cayched them, kills themand then takes it upstairs and lays it beside her bed. Our other cat thinks it is just more fun to show it too you and then play with it. Now, is usually gets lose and runs away. Go fiure, I wouldn't to hang around here either!!

Don't feel bad about putting a disgusting germ carrying mouse out of its misery. Think of it this was, it was the survival of the fitess!


Good Luck!
Nancy