Building a Better Mouse Trap
The mouse in the above picture had been spotted one evening by my wife scurrying about the kitchen. She was determined to catch the mouse and went out and bought a mouse trap. Not the ordinary inhumane mouse traps which lure the mouse with a piece of cheese and then quickly snap the mouse's neck. No, we purchesed the sticky traps which catch mice without killing them. Because mice after all are living things and deserve better.
Now if the above pictured mouse only knew what was going to take place after being caught in the sticky trap I am certain he would have prefered the quick death of the old fashioned cheese trap. You see shortly after being stuck on the trap the mouse went into a panic and managed to flop his way into the middle of the kitchen, where an unsuspecting seven year old stepped on the sticky trap, missing the mouse but at the same time attaching the trap with the mouse to his foot. Thinking the mouse was attached to his foot by the mouse's teeth and not the sticky substance on the trap the seven year old freaked out and began shaking his leg in an attempt to remove the mouse. As a result of the shaking the mouse had his head repeatedly bashed into the tile floor until his head started to bleed.
It was not until the seven year old's mother heard the screaming that she became aware of the "situation" and removed the trap from the seven year old's foot. An act that in and of itself was not only disturbing to the mouse and the seven year old but also to the mother who had no desire to come anywhere near the mouse. Once the bloody mouse had been removed from the foot of the aforementioned seven year old a decision had to be made on what to do with the mouse who had somehow managed to survive this ordeal. He could not be let go due to concerns about his return to the home. It was decided that the most humane way to dispose of the mouse without causing any further psychological trauma to the family would be to zip the mouse in a freezer bag and suffocate the poor bastard. As I understand it there are few deaths worse than suffocation. The mouse was dead by the time I arrived home from work. That evening as we said a prayer before dinner the seven year old asked for forgiveness for bashing the poor creature's head in on the tile floor.
Needless to say, in the future the Unti family will be utilizing the old neck snaping cheese traps.
posted by The Pants @ 1:09 PM
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