Mousetraps and such.....

[lyttllbyrd]

Yesterday when I went to throw my garbage into the dumpster I stumbled upon a tiny country mouse that someone had caught in a sticky trap and literally threw away...I felt so bad for it...It was dehydrated and just struggling so hard...It was trapped in a quater inch of this horrible sticky substance...So I tried to set it free but it was stuck so bad that in trying to wedge it out of the glue I broke his/her leg....I was so sad...I just ran back home grabbed my tobacco and a bag...And a really big rock...I prayed in all four directions...North East West and South then let a little tobacco out on the wind...I asked the Creator to forgive the two legged that did this and to forgive me and I said to the Creator I am ashamed I am a two legged and to please forgive me...Then I took and put the mouse and tobacco in a bag and a rock and ended the suffering of a poor four legged...What is wrong with this world is always in our own backyard...Who could throw away an animal and then let it suffer like that in a hot dumpster...I am a Native American and was taught by my grandmother to have RESPECT even for the tiniest fourlegged and the winged ones...I am also a bit Buddhist and when I find a dead insect I put him on the Buddhas lap( a statue) to return it's dignity in death...I put flower blossoms and bugs all along the Buddhas belly and lap....I am ashamed...I have never had to kill an animal in my life...But I had to end it's suffering...It was lodged in that sticky trap..A new fangled glue trap people use....How cruel and thoughtless of a person to leave an animal in a dumpster.... :bawl:

[toman]

Yeah, I don't get that. I mean, if you need to get rid of pests at least put them out of their misery... Even if it is just a mouse, it's still the kind thing to do.

[treehugger]

I always hated those sticky traps. They seem sooo inhumane.

Although, my cat is also a pretty inhumane mousetrap as well.... :(

I do have way too many mice in this house though. Living across from a feed mill on one side and a field on the other side....

It's a quandary for me.

Kath

[Pedata]

Those traps are cruel if you don't use them right. You're supposed to keep an eye on them, then, as soon as you catch a mouse you get it off the sticky paper and relocate it.


Then it's someone else's problem, lol.

Kath, I know what you mean. We have so many kinds of mice out here! And a few rats. It's all the farm land around us.

Peace,
Cass

[toman]

uh, yeah, how are you supposed to remove a live mouse from a sticky trap? That's a really bad idea, imo...

[Pedata]

uh, yeah, how are you supposed to remove a live mouse from a sticky trap? That's a really bad idea, imo...
Put on medium wieght gloves. Be careful not to squish the mouse. Use cooking oil to remove the creatures feet from the paper.

Sheeeesh, city boy! Ain't you ever handled a mouse?

Peace,
Cass

[LIBRA]

I hit a woodchuck just this weekend, I was driving along then I saw him in the road and I didnt think I hit him but I wasnt sure so I stopped and he was doing circles in the road, like running around in circles it was weird so I am standing there waiting to see and he stops running walks around a bit and it just runs away so I guess I didnt hurt it, but all I kept thinking is if I did I am going to have to back over it, or something and I am sooooo glad I didnt that to do that!!! Anyway it sucks to see anything suffer.
I found a monarch butterfly floating in a bucket of water last summer, I brought it in the house cause it was perfect so I was going to frame it or something, I set it in the sun to dry out and the next thing I know its alive and flying around, it wasnt dead after all, so it never hurts to try!!!

[toman]

Mouse+fondue=yum.

[freakyfairy]

toman...you're mean..... my grandad hads mouse traps and i hate seeint the little dead mice ..... if a creature comes in the house, i just move it...i don't kill it!!!

[toman]

Hmmm, like it won't just come back? I must say, mice are cute. Personally I'll do whatever's required to make sure I don't have rodents in my house though, and if that means killing them, well, sorry...

[unclejoe]

ultrasonics are a chemical free way to shoo little critters out of spaces without harming them. basically, the units emit varying high frequency sounds (+20kHz) at very high decibels levels (+100db). the frequency is above human hearing levels. little critters, however, get the up close and personal equivalent of rock concert/freight train/jetaircraft sound. they then do what most creatures do when the neighbors get extremely loud, they leave. i saw a set of six for twenty bucks in a Heartland America catalog i got yesterday.

[artisticphantom]

ya i yused to kill everything, sadly, but now i have seen and aknowledged my errors. and you will be glad to know that i have lost all will to kill any of gods preshus creetchurs. even ants that i find in my house. i let it crawl ont my hand and i take it outside and let it go on my wall. and they are sooo cute up close. i did the same with a huge black spider i found in my bath tub in the basemant. i thinks it wuz a male black widdow. which you shall be informed is not harmful to humans, thats only the females that are like that.

[artisticphantom]

This is sort of different from mice problems but....what do you guys do for INSECTS ithat get inside? We get a LOT of ants. I feel really bad killing them, but there are so many, and if I let them outside they'll just come back in.

i know what your thinking " not him again" but yes tis me. find a very good container that is properly prep't for insects and let them go in a forest or somewhere away from the house. for venomous insect/ arachnids, use the old glass and playing card( depending on size) and kill only if there is no other way of safe removal. but even then try to avoid causing death.( possibly wait for help with afformentioned creature.)