awwww thats so sweet of you foshu. i agree glue traps are in humane. I've only ever used snap traps. make it quick that way.

Not a pretty thing either, but I'll deal with it as long as I'm not around.

You are such a nice person!

I see what you did there. l3

d'aaawwww <3

Yesh ma'am. I was a little worried about her, but it's almost as if she grew to twice her size and weight in only three days, so much faster and stronger too. It made me feel a lot more confident she would be able to survive

haha, first thought was: you already used this title right? till I saw the extra l :P

it is good to know you can be very nice to mousies irl ^^

aww hehe
cute mousie

with me it is either snap traps or live traps. either let them live or as quick and painless as possible. glue traps are inhumane.

i whna nom it! :o

Bad dog ):< go outside

:c but i whnaaa D;

Go eat a fox then or something, no mousie for you

;c

awwwwwww so cute :3

Nice work there.

Even in life you've got potential prey just crawling all over you. :>

I think your really sweet. ;;

SO. FUCKING. CUTE.

I soon realized this was by you after seeing it without reading your name when opening the submission :) Very cute, and very sweet way of putting things as always with you ^..^

I hear I have a rather distinct handwriting and I do tend to use this mango orange a lot

Yeah, I can confirm that. The fonts with that orange color are pretty distinct, of course in a nice way ^^ Also your style in general... something a bit like japanese art (anime or painting looks) but not quite. Always loved your round, clean and cute drawing style ^_^

To remove the mice that had gotten into our basement, I developed the bucket trap. I placed a huge lawn bin for grass next to the basement stairs and placed a paper plate straddling the edge of the stairs and the bin. Then I placed a small piece of cheese on the edge of the plate over the bin, and a small counterweight rock on the other end. Come back in the morning and you have a mouse LEAPING at the edges of the bin, trapped. Dump them outside, repeat trap until all mice purged.

Mice can jump frighteningly high too. The bin was like 3 feet deep and they could almost reach the edge....

Ohh well done. I confirmed mice are absoltely crazy for peanut butter.

and they can really jump... Daisy was just a small mousie, but I feel if I kept her longer so she wold grow bigger and stronger, she wold have been able to jump out of her box

You're such a nice person. <3

I try <3

What you did was wonderful. I like the humane live catch traps myself, its fun to watch them scurry off when you let them go happy and unharmed.

Heh yesh. Especially when you kept one for a few days and then just set her down to rn off, it's like they can't really believe it at first before reality sinks in and they zip off

I saw a mousie in my living room and my mom wanted me to cut its head off to kill it! D: but I let it go outside anyway ^^ but it probably got caught by my sisters cat

awe oh well... Next time set them free somewhere a little more isolated with access to water and maybe garbage nearby

I agree. I don't use traps at all, I just chase 'em out. Chasing mice is healthy for both mousie and me, and they only get a bit of a scare at most ;3

Fishies get nommed, though... But this kitty never finds fishies in his garage ;_;

I love chasing mice <3 so exhilierating

I agree. They are inhuman and should be band. My brother doesnt understand my hate towards those things and when he put some out to get rid of some of them. I put them where his feet would go when he gets out bed. That was the best Christmas ever.

They are actually illegal here in the Netherlands, but i can't afford to lose my job over raising a fuss about it. I just put up with it and as long as no mice are harmed in my direct environment, I won't have to punch anyone in the mouth.

Heh I like that, especially if he didn't know how to remove them easily. You can paint a vivid picture though, imagining what it would be like, suggesting to someone they dump a bucket of instant superglue over the floor and then sprawl into it naked, the only way you can pull free is by tearing your skin off

Actually the glue on the pads burned his feet to the point that we went to the hospital.

Sadly they are not banned where I live so im constantly on the lookout ready to strike anybody who wont listen. Im an EVIL OTTER!!!

You have to do what you have to do to ptotect them right?

That's really nice of you :D Not to mention its extremely cute, I want one. :P

No shortage of mice around anywhere in the world I'm sure

Yay, more for me :D

Aw, that's heartwarming. :3

awwww is so cuteee<3 *noms* OwO (?)

No, no noms! Bad! Go outside!

:'c *pouts* but.. cats must.. catch mice~ D:

*sics the wolf at you*

ok ok D: I will behave *curls up* :<

its nice that you were able to help out another animal in need. I'm sure that little mouse will live on an do just fine, knowing that you taken good care of her.

Awww, sucha nice vixen you are.

thats awfully sweet of you.

We have a cool live trap that just traps yon mousies in a box. I then take them up along the street and gently deposit them into the gardens to rich people who irritate me..!

lol yesh pretty much. I set mine free in a bushy section by the water opposite of a sidewalk with a trash can and trash collection spot.

I once rescued a nest of pinky mice I found, and raised them. (I had been told a cat had killed the mother,and went exploring to see if there was a nest)

I raised the babies - only to discover that they were spinifex hopping mice - an Australian native mouse with tufted tils and huge long feet. They were fine little guys - but whenever a loud nose happened, they would all spring into the air and bang their heads against the glass top of their cage! I felt so guilty! I had to switch to a softer mesh, but it didn't help that much. I ended up gluing soft foam tothe gcage top to prevent mousie brain damage!


I raised them up until they were old enough, and put them into a nice section of bushland.

Go mousies!

Awe cuties... not sure if it was the right thing to do releasing a species alien to the area into the wildlife though... I guess they already lived there, but still

Oh no - they were actually the native mice from our area: The spinifex mice live all along the coast, inside the thousands of miles of dense spinifex scrub that stretches waaaaaay along the plains. Irts just that most folk never bother to see them.

You certainly made my night seeing this and even more so for that little one. :)

Yah I wanted to speak with you about this, get a specialist on mousies to help me decide if she was fit enough for release, but she's been so much more mousie mousie yesterday after work, I was convinced she would be fine

They are amazingly resilient lil things. I was just looking at the photos you have up, and I can see a huge difference. She's not hunching up, her fur looks very well groomed, and she looks like she is a decent weight. Good work on being a momma mouse :)

Awe thanks hun <3 I emailed animal protection services and they told me I shouldn't release a mouse by herself, since they're social animals. A bit worried about that. I went back to the place I released her and found the bedded tp roll still in dry condition, all the food I left her gone. I left a hunk of baguette I found on the sidewalk with it and covered them somewhat with leaves.

Kinda silly I went back I guess...

Fortunately we use non lethal traps at work so we can release them someplace else.

I'm certainly for not disposing of mice in cruel.. inhumane ways. But at the same time.. all you people catching them and releasing them are making things SO much more worse than you know! Mice can chew through a ton of things.. if you let them live, their population just jumps up that much more. And they get more disease to bring into your homes, make you and your loved ones/pets very sick. Plus with the way most humans live, it's like a paradise for the li'l guys. They'll breed to a point you'll be swimming in them if you don't take care of them quickly!

Just because it's cute and cuddly seeming, doesn't mean it's automatically harmless and should be cared for. Mice can -destroy- homes and lives, spread pestilence, and ruin food -and- food prep surfaces! It's great that you freed this one from the glue trap.. but at the same time it's now running around, probably ready to break into another home somewhere else. I used to believe mice were awesome too.. until I learned of what they do when they get into your home. :(

I'm not sure if that goes for most places around the world, where I live, mice aren't a serious problem and I doubt they will be with the way garbage is managed around here. Usually you can geta mouse if the home next to yours is vacant for a while, mice tend to move in and infiltrate the surrounding homes through the walls, but if you keep your food boxed away, your garbage cans lid and leave no mess around, they have no interest in coming inside your home. If the food supply is limited, their population will shrink as well and they will be forced to move on. Mice outside will usually gnaw little holes into garbage bags or live off of litter strewn about, but again that gives them only small windows of opportunity as the streets are being kept.

Mice are tidy and clean and they will only be filthy if your home they're living in is filthy as well. I do wonder when the last pestilence outbreak was, but as far as I rmemeber being alive, there have been 0 cases in my country.

Hysteria kills the innocent and people enjoy placing the blame on things that can't offer anything in defense.

Being able to hold a wild and free mouse without getting bitten sounds dreamy. I love the idea of releasing friends back into the world, but all of the mice I've released have just been afraid of me.

She seemed somewhat uncomfortable being held and petted, but she never fought me

that too is surprising! ^____^; released a dozen wild-mice from mah old house and been bitten about 3-4 times 'em :'S (their just wild though.. and hoomans are scary X'S )

She was really young though, I think that played into the matter. Usually I get bitten (but I know a little trick so they can't hurt me), so I was surprised as well

In a previous house I lived in, we had a pretty bad mouse problem. We did use glue traps, otherwise dog teeth were used in mouse extermination. One day I went into the kitchen, and out of nowhere the mouse just shot out into the air. I screamed, the dogs wanted to get it, I had to stand there for a good 15 minutes waiting for my bf to stop playing his game so he could actually hear me. ]:

It is a cruel way for the mice to go, I agree...

Awww. Cute.

Agreed. Very cute. :3

Seeing stuff like this, it's awesome to know how nice you are to cute lil' critters. Looks like you spoiled the lil' mousie quite a bit, even. XD

Well this was refreshing to read <3

Thanks for restoring some of my faith in humanity.

welcome big bunny <3

another mouse saved. May it live a healthy life. ^_^

('3 omggggggg that iz so cute and sweet of you~~!
-have done the same thing with a little duckling once.. 'cept the tale has a sad ending on account of a crow.. :'C

oww... a crow ate your duckling?

=___=; a Saaad tale indeed.. :'C

I had rescued the little duckling one of my cats had caught from a passing wild mother-duck and her hatchlings, it was relatively unhurt, bit of dry blood around it's neck, but no legs/wings or otherwise broken.
I was absolutely admiring how tough duckies are in comparison with most birds, who would just keel-over from shock way before this point, and placed it in a decent size box, with grass and a towel and water/foods etc also for the night (he was still rather strong and zesty, but I could not find the mother-duck in the immediate vicinity around our place)

So when she pops up in a pond on the next-door property I bundled the lil' d00d up in a towel and got as close as I could without spooking her away and placed him down on the 5-6 meter flat-grass in eye-shot of her.
Excited at being out again, he makes STRAIGHT for her, to my relief, and she begins to wander over to him with her gaggle quacking away, when a big black-winged punk swoops down and catched him up by the head, dropping him down again from a height a little way off and his friend descends upon the poor lil' thing also. :'C

Mother ducky chased the bugger as soon as it swept down, and I also shouted out and chased them off with a stick...... but it was already too late and the damage done. ;_______;
-Makes me so sad that it was such strong lil' guy, who had otherwise braved all the odds, and SO CLOSE to being re-united, only to be dashed right before both of us at the claws of a crappy crow assh-le. :'C


I don't care for crows that much since~

Awe hun that really sucks. Especially if you go through all that trouble to save a living being, you can't help but get attached. Unfortunately these are the things that happen in nature. If it wasn't for you, that little duck would have gotten nibbled up by your cat or something else. At least you gave him another day pampering him.

Even if you didn't manage to rescue him, prize yourself knowing you'll always be ready to help an animal in distress. Despite what happened, I think you'd still free a crow stuck in a net or help a baby crow that has fallen out of its nest. <3

........:'I blurrrghhhhh troo~~~ but still >8'[ *shakes fist at that butt!*

Never heard of a glue trap before, but...gad. So sad. That mouse couldn't have been in safer hands here, so well done

Oh man, I looked at the word Glue Trap and it conjured up all these horrible images of mice stuck to fly paper D: Even the old bog-standard lever arm seems more humane that that monster.

Good work though! :D

Yeah they're pretty miserable on the mice getting trapped in them ): The only good thing I guess is that the mees are relatively unharmed if you can free them on short notice.

Awwwww! That's so sweet! <3