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somebody tell me to get a grip! I'm hysterical right now...
back story - we've seen a couple mice running around and h bought some sticky mouse traps. I told him i didn't want to know where he puts them, and i didn't think it was right or humane....ignorance was bliss for me on this one.
Well, last nite the power went out & i was playing with pearl, i threw her a chew and it slid under our coat closet door....she started sniffing under the door really aggressivly like something was there she wanted to get at. her paw kinda got stuck to something and i saw it was a sticky mouse pad poking out from under the door. I freaked, and I know it's stupid, but i just got really anxious and all i could think about was if there was a poor suffering mouse dying on it. Bill told me I could look, but to not screatch b/c there probably was one there....i got upset and went upstairs and all i could think about was the poor starving, hurt & suffering mouse.
Call me out now please...tell me i'm being ridiculous & insane!!!!
Anyway, i just still couldn't get it out of my head this morning....Bill is at work so I thought, I'll just look and if there isn't a mouse there, I'll feel better and be able to stop obsessing. So, I opened & looked, Ughhh. yes, there was a mouse there but he was dead, so I thought, okay, he/she's out of their missery. I'm okay.
Well, then I noticed a movement and i looked over to the left & i saw a mouse looking like it was scurrying and for a smidgen of a second i thought, "hey run, get out of this closet mouse!!!" then I noticed he wasn't going anywhere, just scurrying his little legs frantically, damn if h diddn't have a 2nd trap in there, and he was stuck for dead.
i burst out in tears, and ran upstairs. i wanted to call & cuss H out, but i know that won't do any good. Now, i'm just upset. I can't save him, he's already stuck, and it's not healthy to touch them anyway.
The whole situation just sucks, and I'm just really upset. Thank you for reading, and i know i'm a big sap, but I am what i am. I just had to get that out. I'm feeling like a wreck. Hellooooo!!! It's a mouse, it's not like it's pearl. I'm crazy....
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Oh, that sucks. I wouldn't want to see a mouse alive either.
Back in high school we had a mouse, so we set one of those snap traps. My aunt and I got up the next morning and he was dead. She took care of it before anyone else saw. Somehow I think an instant death is "more humane" than a sticky trap. Luckily we only had the one in our house.
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exactly. he's just suffering there....
bill was afraid i'd break my finger on a snap trap, but honestly i wouldn't touch or even want to know about the damn thing....i just need to go to my "happy place" right now.....
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after i posted bill called and could tell i was upset, so i told him and he said "well, did you put him out of his misery?"
No, i hadn't.
Then i realized that was what i had to do to make myself chill out about it. So, don't hate me, but I smashed the little guy.
it took everything i had to do it, but he was so scared and he was panicking....and there was no way he could get out of the sticky paper, and he was just going to die a slow panicky death....
so, there you have it. I threw out the sticky papers and told H that it was not allowed in the house again. I think we've wacked our two culprits, but just in case were able to find a differerent trap at home depot that made me happy. It's a plastic container that you put food/bait in, but it has a trap door. So, once they are in they can't get out.
Then you take them to the field or where ever and you can set them free.
Uggh. To top it all off, i was driving to meet H right after the mouse incident, and I drove over a huge turtle (just my car, not the tires thank God). So, he was ok for the time being, but i think his hours were numbered mozying across that highway.....
I'm like "c'mon!! seriously!?!?!". Can my day get any worse?! Ummm, yes, yes it can.
After meeting up with H (we were doing some cleaning out of the condo we're selling) we went out to lunch, on the way back. No keys. Nope. Gone. The last person to have them was H and he swears he gave them back to me, which he didn't. so, we've been going back & forth about that.
Either way, they are gone, called everywhere we went & back tracked all our steps. So, we had to make a trip home (from annapolis to Baltimore -about 40min) to pick up my spare car key, and we'll be heading back soon to get my car, which ruins our plans to go looking at houses this afternoon
H seems to think someone picked them up from the parking lot and is planning to take my car for a joy ride....what an imagination he has. Sure, a joy ride in a nissan versa....whoooo hoooo, that's the chance of a lifetime!
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I would feel the same way.....I'm an animal lover. It breaks my heart seeing a dead/dying bird, turtle, mouse, deer (H hunts, he hasn't killed anything yet, but I'm dreading when he does). I don't think I could have even killed the mouse like you did. I don't know what I would have done, honestly. But I know exactly how you feel....and you are not alone! haha. I was going to suggest the traps where you could release them somewhere else. If we ever have mice issues....that is the one I am getting. No questions about it. :-)
Wow, I wouldnt have been able to put it out of its misery!!!
I was going to recommend the second traps you bought. I do not advocate the poison traps b/c then you have no control where they go to die. My friend had one die in there wall. They had no idea what this horrible smell was. They ripped into the wall and found a decaying mouse there.
My H ran over an already road killed opossum the other day!! That upset me, but more for the grossness of it!
Thank you NC!! I thought i was going overboard on my animal loving-ness, but i couldn't help it. I see an animal near the road and I freak out, normally yelling "turn around, go back in the woods!!!" But, don't worry, that's only when i'm driving by myself....
The thought of smashing him was horrible, and it was really emotional for me...for some reason...(i think i might be pms-ing
). But it was the lesser of 2 evils at that point....
H tried to make me feel better, but he's like "you can't blame the mouse, for being a mouse, but we have to think of us first...and I think if you would like to have a talk with them and ask them to leave, that would be fine, but if it doesn't work, we are going to have to take matters into our own hands"....LOL. So, thankful we found the much "nicer" trap.
BMW - my mom said the exact same thing about the poison, that happened to her when we had a mouse, and it was a horrible smell....
Thanks for not thinking i'm a nut-so or an evil mouse murderer....I really just had to share the experience yesterday.
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