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in the circumstances described above you'd
get a kill trap 54%  54%  [ 7 ]
a non-kill trap or another option 46%  46%  [ 6 ]
Total votes : 13

felinesaresuperior
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04 Oct 2014, 4:15 am

BirdInFlight wrote:
I second cathylynn, you only did what you felt able to do at the time. Don't feel badly about this; you didn't kill the mice out of glee or pleasure or cruelty.

I don't know what I would have done as I'm not afraid of mice or rats; but you did the only thing you thought practical for you. I know it's hard but try not to let it upset you all this time later. You're a good person.


thanks, really. i think i can get it out of my mind now.



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04 Oct 2014, 9:24 pm

felinesaresuperior wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I will suggest to the OP, that writing poetry [even bad poetry] about stuff that bothers one is helpful to regain some mental peace. I had to kill a mouse because it was winter [ice and snow on the ground] and I could not reasonably go far enough away to dump a live mouse without it coming back [eventually] to my house. so I wrote this little ditty to work the yucky out of me system-

My Mouse Murder Missive
i had to kill cutesy mousey
i'm a big heel, feeling lousy
it was pooping and peeing all over the place
this wasn't something i could allow apace
so i put out a peanut-butter-laced trap
which in the wee hours stomped out its crap
in the morning i awoke, got up and saw
splattered mouse doodoo, a dead tail, a dead paw
sticking out from the machinery of automated mouse death
god help me, i'm a mouse murderer, an extinguisher of mouse breath

I felt like I failed some kind of moral test. I hope the OP can get past this.


the op loves your poem, and your sense of humor. I really feel better now, thanks. my cats (long dead now) brought home live birds that they caught. i wanted to take two of the three to the vet, but they died before i had a chance. the third one was dead on arrival, so i couldnt even try to save it.

thank you :) I think your cats were paying you "tribute" with the dead birds.



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08 Oct 2014, 6:42 am

felinesaresuperior wrote:
over twenty years ago, when I was living in poverty in a tiny rented room in a poverty neighborhood, I had mice in my room.
I was deathly scared of them, so scared that I went to the supermarket after nidmight, risking getting shot in this crazy neighborhood, and bought a trap.
I dont remember now, after all this time, if I didn't know about the non-kill trap, or if they were just more expensive. and more expensive meant either spending more hours on the job where I was threatened by gangsters coworkers, or going hungry until my next paycheck. More hungry than I usually was. Ended up eating cereal without milk and bread without butter sometimes.
so I killed several mice. and for more than twenty years, this has been bothering me and depressing me.
what would you do under the circumstances? i couldnt chase them out with a broomstick because i was too afraid, and because whenever I saw them, they'd disappear so fast. I'll never do it again. what would you do in my circumstances?


Mice are disease-carrying pests, just like mosquitos. There is no reason to feel bad about killing them. Rodents helped spread the plague that killed MILLIONS of humans a few centuries ago... and that is just 1 out of 1000+ pathogens they cancarry. if you let one live, he may make someone else very sick.

The story hits home. I currently live alone in a small basement apartment (hardly any daylight) in an awful neighborhood (daily robberies and drug dealings and weekly homicides) and I do have a lot of mice in and around this building. I moved in with my two cats. One of them has died eating a poisoned mouse.. he was my favorite i've had him for 6 years. He was like a BROTHER to me. My other cat has also been poisoned by catching and eating some mice but survived. I haven't had seen any mice in my apartment since. It kills me thinking how my poor cat died protecting the rest of us. I should've done something different... maybe tried to live with them in my car instead... I blame myself every time I think of it eventho theres not much I could do. Life really blows but spending time filtering out the good memories... that's what keep me going