[POLL] You, yes you, get to decide their fate. Feeling Godlike?

[Sluggo]

Since the cold winter is upon us, I put out the winter hay for the dog to sleep in when he is outside. Tonight I saw the mice running around.

We have empty fields on either side of your house, and last winter the mice showed up, but the dogs caught them all, or so I thought. When I moved the dog house and cleaned up the hay this spring, I found 3 tiny baby mice under the dog house. I threw them in the field next door and let them fend for themselves....apparently they did quite well, and have come back to nest in the hay again.

So you, ATOT, get to decide their fate.

Let the mice live in peace and share the hay with the dog, surviving together in some sordid Charolette's web type of adventure.....

OR

Make the nasty little things die a horrible death in a mouse trap, being lured there by the sweet, sweet smell of lucious food.

 

[Cuda1447]

All tied up at 1 a piece!

 

[RagingBITCH]

Blow them up with M66's.

 

[Spoooon]

Eat them and make a mousepad from their pelt.

 

[mpitts]

Kill the mice.

 

[Feldenak]

Kill'em.

 

[nater]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
Eat them and make a mousepad from their pelt.

that suggestion is most definitely better than anything I could come up with.

 

[Wuffsunie]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
Eat them and make a mousepad from their pelt.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now THAT is a classic suggestion!!

I say get a cat

 

[Yossarian]

I'm looking for a gladiator "thumbs down" pic but am coming up with nothing

 

[MercenaryForHire]

KILL THE FURRY LITTLE BASTARDS BEFORE THEY GET NEAR YOUR HOUSE.

- M4H

 

Kill them.
There are plenty more where they came from.

 

[Mookow]

Kill them with the traditional, spring mouse traps. Then pack them in ice and FedEx overnight them to my house, the snake is hungry.

 

[Sluggo]

Never considered that I could sell the dead mice here on the FS/FT Forum.

I could be sitting on a potential cash cow.

 

[TheDebater]

or a cash mouse!


sorry.....

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Never considered that I could sell the dead mice here on the FS/FT Forum.

I could be sitting on a potential cash cow.

Well, you'll have to include shipping, ice, a ziplock bag... and mice retail for $1.50 if you buy them at an expensive place.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Never considered that I could sell the dead mice here on the FS/FT Forum.

I could be sitting on a potential cash cow.

You know, you can send the skin of the cow to a tanner to have it made into leather...

 

[JBT]

kill em

 

[BurnItDwn]

how much are you gonna charge for your mousepads??? I may be interrested

 

[EMPshockwave82]

kill them all

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Leave the poor mice alone. What harm are they doing? Seriously. What kind of person kills animals just for the heck of it? Well, probably the same people who bitch about kids throwing kittens on the sidewalk.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
Eat them and make a mousepad from their pelt.

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Since the cold winter is upon us, I put out the winter hay for the dog to sleep in when he is outside. Tonight I saw the mice running around.

We have empty fields on either side of your house, and last winter the mice showed up, but the dogs caught them all, or so I thought. When I moved the dog house and cleaned up the hay this spring, I found 3 tiny baby mice under the dog house. I threw them in the field next door and let them fend for themselves....apparently they did quite well, and have come back to nest in the hay again.

So you, ATOT, get to decide their fate.

Let the mice live in peace and share the hay with the dog, surviving together in some sordid Charolette's web type of adventure.....

OR

Make the nasty little things die a horrible death in a mouse trap, being lured there by the sweet, sweet smell of lucious food.

I doubt that the three baby mice survived.

My answer as a half-assed Buddhist is to let them live. Always value life over everything else.

 

[Pudgygiant]

I don't mean to sound sick but... hook up a webcam to the mouse traps.

 

[Ronstang]

If the mice are not causing any damage then just leave them alone. If they bother the dog he will remedy the situation and that is as it should be. There was a time when I would have told you to kill them but age has tempered my need for blood. Realize that even though it is a little varmit you and I have no idea on what level it might have feelings/emotions. After having the pleasure of a Fox Squirrel living in my house as my pet for 3 years I learned a lot about the nature of animals, especially wild ones. Even wild animals possess emotions and in many ways they are a lot like us. Never consider any life disposable too quickly.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Leave the poor mice alone. What harm are they doing? Seriously. What kind of person kills animals just for the heck of it? Well, probably the same people who bitch about kids throwing kittens on the sidewalk.

Well, my major concerns are:

1) As M4H stated, they will eventually want IN the house, then I have some major issues...with my wife and the mice.

2) They crap in the dogs water bowl (probably in his food bowl as well), and the last thing I need is ANOTHER trip to the vet for who knows what the dog might catch from that.

3) If my wife spots them, there will no "considering it" I will be instructed to go outside, regardless of current temperature, and hunt them and kill them. Not to mention the screaming, and always having to feed the dog myself, her reasoning being that that "crazed mice" will attack her.