Anybody got an idea what I should do here?

[bigmonkey]

An extermination company left a sticky trap in my kitchen for mice. Nothing happened with it for months, and I forgot about it, but I came home today and there's a mouse on it. I haven't killed anything deliberately since my Buddhist study began thirty years ago, but this thing is suffering. I'm a little distraught. For the time being I put it outside, but what do I do? Help?

[Proud_Lefty]

1. Call the exterminators back out?

And then breath deep. :shrug:

[bigmonkey]

3. The landlord called the exterminators, not me.

Somebody in the building panicked about mice, and I just had to knuckle under. Next time I'll have to be more vigilantly resistant.

[Matariki]

12. Insist they use humane traps

the kind where you let the mouse loose far from your house. Those sticky traps are way too cruel.

[bigmonkey]

2. Well, it's all over for the poor thing now.

It died in the meantime. I really feel badly that I didn't throw that infernal thing (the glue trap, not the mouse) out earlier.

Sorry to have troubled you folks at all. I've just been trying to avoid that sort of stuff for so long. I hope it wasn't stuck for too long before the end came - I have no idea when it happened today. I did try to remove the mouse from the stickum while it was still alive, but it became quickly obvious that I was just going to cause more pain. What a crappy thing.

[I Have A Dream]

4. I'm so sorry that this happened.

:(

Peace and love to you both. :hug:

[OneGrassRoot]

5. That's so hard....

:( I'm also sorry you had to go through that.

Not wanting to inflict harm or pain in the first place, then not knowing the best course of action when a creature is suffering. I would have been distraught as well.

Try not to beat yourself up over it; you didn't intend any harm.

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[Kind of Blue]

6. I'm so sorry, BigMonkey.

I certainly agree with OGR, you did not intend for that to happen :hug:

[MorningGlow]

8. I HATE those traps

They're horrible. Poor moosie. :cry: When we had a rodent infestation at our first house on a lake (mice, chipmunks, you name it), we used Hav-a-hart traps. The chipmunks were so dim (but cute!) that we'd catch one every few seconds! :rofl: It was annoying to have to keep driving up the road to drop them off in a field, but it sure was better than watching them suffer in a cruel sort of trap.

Sorry you had to go through this, Bigmonkey. Say a prayer for the mouse's spirit and send it on its way with love. At least animals don't mind as much about death as we do. They just come on back. :hug:

[Kookaburra]

7. Forgive yourself

It wasn't your doing. If they leave any more traps, throw them out.

Peace to you and the little mouse.

[bigmonkey]

9. Thanks for the condolences.

I said some stuff for the poor little guy before his body went its way. I'm a grown fella, but I'm still shaken up.

You know, you look in their eyes, and someone looks back.

[I Have A Dream]

10. "...you look in their eyes, and someone looks back."

:cry:  :cry:

That's why I can't eat meat. :(

[Kookaburra]

11. Same here, IHAD

I just can't bear it.

[japple]

13. Swift passage for the little mouse. eom

[findrskeep]

14. Years ago an exterminator put glue traps in our house

and told me about them on the way out. As soon as he left I removed them. When we first moved into the house, it was out in the country and us not being used to "country life" knew we had mice and set a regular trap. Well, we caught one. When I heard the snap of that trap I was devastated and so was my husband. After that incident and then the glue traps that were placed by the exterminator we always purchased humane traps. Where we live now we get a few mice in the early fall. We actually have 2 cats who herd the mouse, I'm NOT kidding, into a box that my husband holds and then we take the little critter outside and set him free. Then he or she comes back the next day and we do the same thing over again...lol. I know how you feel, it hurts me to hurt any living creature, even bugs now and I NEVER thought THAT would happen..lol.