Help - I just saw a mouse

[$tevie]

[quote space-time]you guys talking about "inhumane" glue traps, remember, we're not catching humans, we're catching mice!

LOL!
"Inhumane" means lacking and reflecting a lack of pity or compassion. It's about the trapper, not the trappee. I think the correct way to use the word would be to say the USE of glue traps is inhumane, since the traps themselves of course cannot be expected to feel pity or compassion.

And I think those glue traps are sick and disgusting. It's for people who are so self-centered that they will make an animal suffer for hours to avoid sixty seconds of having to view its dead body while throwing a trap into the trash. So I will add "cowardly" to "inhumane".

[space-time]

dude, I know what humane (or inhumane) means. It was just a word game, OK?

[$tevie]

Sorry, space-time, I just really hate those damned sticky traps!

[RAMd®d]

Once again $tevie, you hit all the nails on the head with one blow. (Remember that old kid's story about "Seven killed with one blow"?)

I don't like the glue traps or poison, either. The snap traps are a little messy, but swift.

[OWC Jamie]

The poison I use makes them go nitey-nites.
Feel-good for every one.

They're f$%#ing vermin. Not Kurds.

[JoeH]

Problem is, the poison can make them go nighty-night inside a wall. Then they stink. If you are lucky it is for just a day or two, but it can last weeks.

[OWC Jamie]

A stinking mouse isn't walking around the house, possibly sniffing at you , licking your toes while you sleep.
Or licking between the tines of your forks, or the serations of your knives for tiny tastes the dishwasher left behind.
Leaving behind little black "seed-turds" that slowly decompose and "evaporate" if given enough time.

The smell isn't so bad if you try to imagine what they're otherwise up to all night while you're asleep.
In your food pantry and utensil, bowl and pans drawers. :-)


Maybe I'm lucky. They all die on the middle of the cellar floor. Easy to find and bury, so that nothing else hungry eats them and what's in them.

Poison's not recommended if you can't keep pets away from it, both directly and indirectly.




I do remember the rat traps from my father's farm.
They only caught the rat's appendages.
I quite distinctly remember learning the technique of slicing off a head with a shovel.
(smashing often took several attempts)
Neven, never, ever corner a rat.

[Mac1337]

If another higher species was laying similar traps for us, which one would you rather get caught in?

[JoeM]

[quote space-time]dude, I know what humane (or inhumane) means. It was just a word game, OK?
Er...I think it's "dudess"...dude.

[OWC Jamie]

[quote Dakota]If another higher species was laying similar traps for us, which one would you rather get caught in?
We're fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here. :-)


Oh, if there's only peanut butter and/or chocolate in the trap, it won't catch me.