I'm preparing to kill a mouse. Okay?

[Hogarth]

I'm all done with the Jainism philosophy and tired of giving up my dinners to a rodent that likes to munch on my dinner while I'm not watching. That really puts me off my feed.

So ... it's time to set the traps. No more tolerance.

Is this wrong?

[wryter2000]

1. You beast!

Hold on, there. I'll send one of my snakes over.

[lemon lime]

24. Hey, what kind of snakes?

We have numerous corns and boas. Love em.

[bratcatinok]

You're asking me?

meow!

[stopthegop]

2. no n/t

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[slackmaster]

3. No-kill mouse traps are inexpensive and effective

That's what I use when my cat fails to do his job.

Get the ones that are little plastic boxes that lock closed when the mouse walks inside and tips the device. Then you can let the critter loose in a nice field or some farmer's silo.

[wysimdnwyg]

7. I use those

I had a mouse last winter that kept getting into my garage. I set a no-kill trap and caught him. I then let him out in the woods in my back yard. Then I did it again. And again. After the third time, I found where he was coming in and filled the holes with that foam insulation that comes in a spray can.

[diamondsoul]

26. Hah! I tried those- they didn't help!

Jeez, my rodent problem is incredible, and I cannot figure out how the little beasts reproduce so damned fast! Let me state outright that I adore mice, and rats, and all sorts of rodents. Unfortunately there comes a point where it's either kill or be overrun.*sigh*

[xchrom]

4. too late?

they have no kill mouse traps -- if that matters to you.

[TrogL]

5. NO fair - I'll call PETA

You have to catch it yourself or hire a cat for the occasion.

[Hogarth]

9. I've thought about hiring one of the cats ...

... but they like to strut around in high-heeled fashion, and I'm more partial to hound dogs that just slog around the place.

It's time to set the traps. I'm not looking forward to it, but enough is enough.

[Robb]

6. I'm all for it, but steel yourself

I remember there was a mouse in our band's rehearsal studio at one point. There was all this lumber around from some construction project or other, and one evening I saw the mouse running way over on the other end of the space.

I picked up a piece of 2x4 about four inches long, and lobbed it, probably thirty feet. We heard a simultaneous "thump" and "squee!"

It has been some time since I felt that guilty.

[musiclawyer]

16. Mouse had established a "den" in my garage

when I first moved in. It was inside some old boxes. Cat was going nuts for several days, and finally flushed the mother mouse out. I go investigate and find five or six babies, little,pink, hairless innocent looking things. Not sure if they could even see. I turn around and the cat has the mother in her mouth, dead. I knew that the little ones would die of starvation at best. So I put the babies in a small paper bag and went out to the adjecent empty lot. And I found a huge, heavy rock, lifted it over my head....... I've never told my young kids about that day.

[musiclawyer]

17. Mouse had established a "den" in my garage

when I first moved in. It was inside some old boxes. Cat was going nuts for several days, and finally flushed the mother mouse out. I go investigate and find five or six babies, little,pink, hairless innocent looking things. Not sure if they could even see. I turn around and the cat has the mother in her mouth, dead. I knew that the little ones would die of starvation at best. So I put the babies in a small paper bag and went out to the adjecent empty lot. And I found a huge, heavy rock, lifted it over my head....... I've never told my young kids about that day.

[musiclawyer]

18. Mouse had established a "den" in my garage

when I first moved in. It was inside some old boxes. Cat was going nuts for several days, and finally flushed the mother mouse out. I go investigate and find five or six babies, little,pink, hairless innocent looking things. Not sure if they could even see. I turn around and the cat has the mother in her mouth, dead. I knew that the little ones would die of starvation at best. So I put the babies in a small paper bag and went out to the adjecent empty lot. And I found a huge, heavy rock, lifted it over my head....... I've never told my young kids about that day.

[Lefta Dissenter]

8. BOX TRAPs

are cheap - I got some for about $1.50 a piece. Peanut butter is great bait. Don't forget to check the traps 2x/day. We name the little creatures before releasing them into the great outdoors. Ooh, and we lock the cats inside for a little while, so the little mousie can find a good hiding spot.

My dad, who lives in town, had a problem with chipmunks this summer. They were trying to nest in the duct of his air conditioner! He set little box traps in the ducts (bigger than the mouse traps), and he'd bring his new captives out here to release in our woods. They were fun to release - they just SAIL out of the boxes!

[tom_paine]

10. Not wrong at all -- you have the right to defend your home

Once that little bastard starts having the audacity to eat YOUR FODD (you are right, that's gross to the nth degree!), then...

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[Hogarth]

19. There must be an appropriate Schwartzenegger ....

....okay; the phone rang and I lost my train of thought. But it's time to set the traps. I bought two. My dinner is steeping on the stovetop, and I'm not in the mood to surrender my well-being to a mouse for having to discard my dinner regularly. Rather, the traps will be set regularly. I feel no guilt. The miscreant has no home here.

Oh, man! There he is! He wants to go for my garlic squash! This is tiresome!

Okay ... now I'm really going to set the traps.

[Shrek]

11. As long as you eat what you kill, it's okay.

That seems to be the DU consensus based on the hunting threads I've seen lately. No trophies!

[johnnie]

12. Is this...

Is this for food or sport?...j/k
Catch the little shit, put him in a cage for 6-8 days (depending on the crime) then let him go outside. Maybe he won't come back. If he does, bust his ass again.

[ulysses]

13. I'm there right now.

They looked at the no kill traps, laughed, and dug into more of the dry goods. Then they had babies. Then they began to sit up on the counter and offer me advice on dinner.

At that point I began to get a little medieval. It seems to be working a bet better than it was earlier in the week, but SOteric sent me a particularly tricky method that I'll pass along if you'd like.

[ironflange]

14. I had trouble with a gopher one summer ago

New house backing onto a large field, you know, the damn rodent moved in under my steps. Would chirp and dig around until I felt like I was in Caddyshack. I finally snared him (boy did that make the kids scream) and stuck him in a big plastic pot that a shrub came home in. Then I let him sit for a couple of hours to mull over his iniquities, before I drove a good ways away and let him loose.

[htuttle]

20. Oh...kill *Gophers*...

We can do that.

We don't even need a reason.

Licensed to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote.
-- Carl Spackler, Gopher Killer

[Cooley Hurd]

22. The only good varmit pootang...

...is DEAD varmit pootang! (My favorite line from the movie)

[hussar]

15. Kill, kill, kill

shock and awe, that mouse is a terrorist and needs to be made an example of.

[VOX]

21. (Ex)Terminate -- with extreme prejudice...

I love most animals, but I recently had rats in my attic, and in my garage, where they chewed up the wires under the hood of my car.

I will simply say that they are no longer a nuisance.

[Hogarth]

23. Looks like I bagged another one.

Now I have to dispose of the body. No regrets.

[xJlM]

25. I've got a friend who does that for me

Her name is Petuka, and she actually doesn't do much in the way of hunting. Her very presence or odor or something discourages mice, though. I haven't seen one in over three years.

[RebelOne]

27. Even though I am an animal rights advocate.

I draw the line when it comes to mice and rats invading my house. One day a rat ran across my living room floor. That's when I went out and bought rat poison.