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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 2:04 am Post subject: A mousey tail- story of a vancouver mouse. Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
--read this with the sound of a tiny little voice squeaky and high childlike voice--
Hi. I'm a Vancouver mouse and i live in this like 4 story building with all my friends and family and strangers and cousins 100 times removed, ohh and a few of you human creatures.
The other day I had an experience I just wanted to share. And since the human that uses this contraption is sleeping at the moment decided to come tell you my tail.
It all started when i went onto the third floor. That's where the places are that have food. I was sneaking around and hoping to find just a small piece of cracker, bread heck even some candy would be good. I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere because I was under this metal thing. I think you humans call it a Filing cabnite. Now my family rules this building so I don't have a problem with where i go.. well except for the glue traps but i stay away from them. ANYWAY..
So i was uinder this metal thing and the human must have heard me because suddenly the metal moved and caught my tiny little head between two peices of Metal. BANG it went and my head hurt. BANG BANG and my head hurt again. It did this several times.. then stopped holding my head in place. Then BANG BANG BANG boy was my head hurting and spinning. Now I sat there trying to come out of it. when all of a sudden the metal moved.
I don't know about other mice but I decided that was not good so I ran, around the wall and corner to hide in the yards of spagetti that buzzz. i think you call them electrical cords. anyway there i was. thought i was safe when my hidey hole MOVED!!!!! Dang the desk ? was on wheels and moved away so I hid more, then i scurried around to where two metal walls were close together.
i thought i was safe. i hid there for a couple minutes when the human, female i think though she ain't as pretty as my wife. She ain't got no wiskers or pointy nose or nothing.. anyway she looked at me.. well i was hiding so I looked right back She couldn't see me anyway. right? Suddenly the walls closed in around me. Holding me tightly as they moved and dragged me forward. JEEZE you humans have weird things.
it dragged me at least 5 mousey miles themn lifted straight into the AIR! Carrying me by my body, but then i began to slip and it was holding me by the neck I hung in the air for at least 20 mousey miles when suddenly I fell from those metal airborne walls down a cliff!! Those cliffs were at least 10 mousey miles deep. Boom i fell and lay there dazed stunned and confused. Spread eagled as I tried to figure out what was going on.. I heard the human male yell "get me the tongs"
Now i don't know what those are but suddenly these two pieces of metal were squeezing my tummy and I was kicking them away as fast as I could. Then suddenly it grabbed my tail. I couldn't do nothing.. Then I was FLYING!!!! Well FLYING?FALLING cuz I don't got no wings. I fell at least 60 mousey miles and landed on that black rock ouitside.
I must have been knocked unconcious because when i came too it was definately later than before. I stumbled home.. where my family friends, cousins, strangers, and 100 times reoved cousins wondered what happened to me.
I told them and they shuddered. Told me how lucky i was to be super mouse
Problem is I keep telling everyone who wwill listen, so I tell you the same..
DON'T GO ON THE THIRD FLOOR!!!
And that's my tail.. I am never coming back to the third floor again. I may move out of here altogether.. my family might want to follow me.. You humans are bad news..
I'd take a glue trap or snap trap
*Walking away muttering* mousey's don't have wings.. they can't fly.. chase me around the room.. walls closing in.. I STILL HAVE NIGHTMARES
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 8:35 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
just be glad they don't live with a katz, katzes like to play wit their food. and Katzes think mices are food!!! My cuz maury was battered around for hours before the horid creature bit his head off!
Oh the mouseanitys!
Its getting to the point that a self respecting city mouse has to think seriously about becoming :shudder: a field mouse.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 9:00 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
Okay, call me softhearted (HEY YOU! SOFTIE!!!), but I can't bring myself to set traditional traps for the mice. We don't have many around here, but a few, and my way of dealing with it is a humane trap that allows me to set them free in the back pasture. The housemates think I'm crazy, but I figure, I wouldn't want someone doing that to me.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 9:17 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
huh, some " humane " traps aren't
the glue strips are supposed to be humane, and non toxic, but you wind up with a glue strip that has mouse parts on it if you aren't right there when the mouse gets stuck. they rip thier skin right off to get away.
( unfortunately, those are the only traps available, so I have to terminate them when they get caught to avoid making them suffer. )
~evil grin ~
made a squeaky toy one night, folded glue strip around mouse and smacked it against table..went "squeek"....but it broke really quickly ( like about 5 seconds ) I think I hit it to hard on table and killed mouse.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 9:35 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
Okay, gonna get a little angry here, sorry. And my apologies if this sounds a bit too adamant.
You tried to make a mouse into a sqeaky toy by doing WHAT???
I was raised on a cattle ranch. I know how meat is processed and what the animals go through so we can all go to McDonald's on Friday night. It didn't make me a vegetarian to learn all this, because I know there are alternatives that are far worse to what goes on now in the processing plant.
But I find it difficult to understand anyone who would do something to an animal for amusement. While I was in Spain, I was taken to a bullfight by the sponsors of the festival at Merida, and I had to leave after the first "competition". My hosts were a little upset, but considering the "fight" was nothing more than a game of "let's torture this animal, then kill it and show everyone how brave we are", I was less than impressed, and I knew if I stayed there, I'd only get angrier. Hell, the only time I got in a fight in school was when I saw a kid pulling the classic trick of tying firecrackers to a kitten's tail, then laughing when the animal freaked out. It's the only time I've purposely broken someone's jaw in a fight, but that laugh... I swear, I could never forgive that. Yeah, I know, it's a rough world, and people aren't always nice to each other, let alone to the animals out there. But that doesn't stop me when I see someone purposely being cruel to their pets.
And as for the mouse... well, tell me, how would you feel if someone wrapped you in meter-wide duct tape, then slammed you a few times against a brick wall? Probably not too good, right? So consider that the next time you think about making a toy out of a living creature.
Okay, rant over. And my apologies. But this is a sensitive issue to me.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 10:21 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
That's a big OW for the mousie, Jaqui. Eeeeech.
On the other hand, one can play a harmless, non-toxic prank on kitty by rolling up a little bit of scotch tape, sticky side out, and sticking it to the bottom of a paw or paws. (Do NOT wrap the CAT in scotch tape, please note, or throw the cat anywhere!) Kitty will do a nice jig until the tape comes off the bottom of her feet.
Do not do this more than once, because the cat will just pick the tape off her feet with her teeth, next time, instead of hopping around madly.
This is the only remotely mean thing i've ever done to my kitty, and she still loves me, Sean. i swear!
Of course, the animal kingdom has had its revenge: two days ago, Nan versus the yellowjacket! i won that one, but not before hopping madly about the street in front of my house and then running up on the porch & stripping off my tee shirt, where the yellowjacket had gotten caught. Strangely, nobody was around to see this! Pity, it would have been funny. icon_redface.gif
Did my cat laugh? Probably. But cats and dogs are nice, and do not laugh out loud.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 10:33 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
wrapping the glue strip it was already stuck to around it and hitting it against a solid surface to kill it is more humane than letting it rip itself apart trying to and getting free.
you would rather it was left alone and suffered for hours or days on the glue strip?
5 seconds and dead, seems much more humane than even 1 hour .
I grew up on a pig farm, been knee deep in rotting pig ( died if disease, buried in field and it wasn't a deep enough grave ) learned very young that shortening the suffering is more humane than leaving any animal to suffer. on several occasions where getting injured pet to the vets would have resulted in dead pet before arrival, I had to put them out of thier misery. unfortunately, don't have a small enough caliber gun to shoot the mice with so I hit them to kill them, better than letting them alone, or completely encasing them in the strip and tossing into garbage alive.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 10:47 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
OH, it was already stuck to the glue strip and dying. Sorry, misunderstood. Yes, a quick end is preferable at that point.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 10:53 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
I'm with you VS much prefer relocation to execution. even spiders, I've spent hours hunting down and carfully trapping a spider to release it outside, rather then squash it as my girlfriend would prefer. I draw the line only at mesqitos, if there was ever a creature which would benfit the world by it's eradication it's the mesquito.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 10:56 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
the glue strip it was already stuck to
Well, see, you kinda neglected to mention that part.
I still have issues with the strips themselves, but that's just me. I just find it difficult to accept that we sometimes cavalierly do things to animals we wouldn't dare do to a "fellow" human being, no matter how represensible he/she was acting.
Sorry for coming on so strong about this, but animal cruelty is one of the few things in this world guaranteed to really piss me off bigtime.
My apologies.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 11:39 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
sorry I wasn't clear about it already being stuck.
I personally don't like the glue strips, would rather something to keep them alive ( in city so no release options really ) or to kill them outright, not force them to suffer.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 11:39 am Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
oh I don't know VS, there's a few humans I'd cheerfully wrap in glue strips & smack on a table till they were dead, you'd probably need 2 or 3 good hard smacks icon_lol.gif sorry I couldn't resist.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 12:30 pm Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
there's a few humans I'd cheerfully wrap in glue strips & smack on a table till they were dead
Trust me, same here.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 1:14 pm Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
Believe me guys we aren't cruel I prefer quick and death or live capture and release, but this building owners just buy the glue strips and people call them HUMANE.. Sheesh.. They have never seen the little things spread eagled on the strip pulling til their skin is ripping off their bodies because you weren't home to dispose of them when they first got stuck on the damned thing. Half the time I don't want to kill them I want to help them.. Problem is once stuck the only way to save it is to tear it off the strip or use chemicals that would kill it anyway.
I have come to think of some of the mice in here as Super intelligent. They have to be. Some just plain skirt the glue traps. Others are bold enough to get on the table and try to steal matchboxes or paper. or FOOD. and stare at you.
The other night I thought it was raining.. Looked out the window and it wasn't heard the noise again (remember i am half asleep at this point) and started searching a shelf by our bed. Heard the nois closer moved some books and found a plastic bag. Grabbed the bag and it MOVED!! I grabbed the bag and yelled for Jaqui (he thought I was having a nightmare. ) the mouse was in the bag. Dang thing packaged himself up quite nicely too..
Then there's the one who sits on the end of our bed one day and stares at me.. *SHEESH* or the one who boldly strolls into the bathroom. Sees me then saunters out. like "oops sorry thought it was empty."
We owned a rat.. I would take a rat over these mice anyday.. *Sigh* at least rats KNOW who's master. They are.
mice know you are good for having food. and great companions and annoyances..
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i live in florida. i guess i am lucky, i have no mice or cockroaches. what i do have are lizards. i am not sure how they get in, but, some of them are almost 4 inches long. i try very hard not to scare them...the babies, at least, when i turn on the coffee pot in the a.m. there are usually a couple really small ones on the countertop...and if they get startled, they jump...and sometimes crash to the floor, stunning themselves. now, that can't be good. when it's been raining out, i have them. it seems, when it dries up a bit, they head back outside.
actually, they are cute. and, they do eat bugs. now bufo frogs are another story!!!
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 3:48 pm Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
also in florida, I've got those lizards too Poppi.
try to shoo them out before my girlfriend sees them, I also have a cat named roxy who occasionaly likes to play with them, they must not be very tasty coz I've never seen her eat one. though I have caught her carying them around in her mouth, its always freeky to see her walking into a room with a lizard tail whipping around between her lips, but she always spits it out unharmed, if only to bat the poor thing around some more before I take pitty on the lizard and put it outside. I don't let the cat out anymore coz (cover your ears poppi) she loves to catch and eat birds.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 4:13 pm Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
Stormrage wrote:
We owned a rat.. I would take a rat over these mice anyday.. *Sigh* at least rats KNOW who's master. They are.
aww Sheena wasn't that bad, she just did gymnastics around her cage all night ( while I was at work )
and snuggled into the hollow of your neck or at the back of your neck when she wanted company.
and the noise of her jumping up then paw over paw across the top of her cage before dropping onto her house inside wasn't that bad. ~g~
~mumbling~
at least she didn't climb into your mouth while you were talking on the phone like she loved to do with me.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 4:17 pm Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
~rubbing my nose~
or decide she could stretch your nostrils far enough apart to sqeeze into your nasal cavities.
or try crawling into your ears.
no, only me she did these things to.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 4:24 pm Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
Jaqui wrote:
~mumbling~
at least she didn't climb into your mouth while you were talking on the phone like she loved to do with me.
*LOL* Yeah while He was on the phone with his sister. Talking and all of a sudden Rat in mouth disease. icon_smile.gif He had to hand the phone to me. And I had to explain to his sister that he couldn't talk because he had a rat in his mouth.. I can still hear her scream of WHAT?!!!
Hey Hun.. she loved you.. can't say I don't blame her either your nostril is a good hiding place for a rat. *GRIN*
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