Thursday, July 30, 2009

I am not a cruel person

I would like to start this blog with a disclaimer. I am not a cruel, animal-hating person. I love animals. There are a few exceptions. I don't really like bugs but I have no problem crushing them underfoot.

I HATE snakes. If you tried to get a snake near me I promise you that I will kill you. I am not kidding. I will become blind with terror, the world will go blank for me and I will wake up to a very grizzly scene. I probably have the capability of running straight through a brick wall to escape a snake.

I have always been a bit grossed out by mice. I am fine when they are in cages. I actually find them quite adorable when they are snuggled in sawdust next to their little exercise wheels in a pet store cage.

This is an example of the mice I used to imagine in my childhood:



But guess what, they are not cute like that. They are disgusting. My dad has been very involved with the CDC in Atlanta throughout his medical career and has filled my brain with horror stories such as my favorite involving poisonous mouse pee dust getting into your lungs and killing you in 24 hours.

Here is an example of the mice that I have come to know and HATE:



Here is an example of the cock-sure ancestors of these evil mice that have invaded my home:



Those little assholes thought they would be safe to move right on into your house here in America, pick out a good home in one of your old pillows or shoes and raise millions of little baby Feivels. But you know what? I say "Hell no!!"

I will not put up with mice scampering across my kitchen floor or pooping on my counters or going through my bathroom trash, ripping apart used tampons and scattering them on the floor. I know, I nearly barfed too.

So my boyfriend and I started setting traps, all kinds of traps. Spring traps, traps where you can't see them get smashed inside, and glue traps. Oh waaaaaaaaaaaah! They are cruel, so friggin' what? If you have been harassed by disease carrying rodents for four months you would not care how you catch and kill mice. I could care less whether they starve in a glue trap or experience a swift death at the hands of spring trap.

THE END!

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You say you're not a cruel person?

Yeah right.

You are terrible. Not so much for your hatred mice, but your insistence for the need to starve a living creature to death rather than just putting it out of its misery. You use glue traps yet you throw them out alive into the bin, as if they were inanimate objects incapable of feeling pain. Starvation is a very painful way to die, and you really have no reason to do that (not to mention that they will break bones and chew limbs in an attempt to escape). And if you say it's because "oh but they carry diseases that could kill me", then you should understand that you're going to kill it regardless, so why the need for the unnecessary cruelty?

You have one stuck on a glue trap, alive. You have two choices. You can kill it so it doesn't suffer or you can chuck it into the bin, where it suffers. Having read your other entries, you chose the latter constantly. Why? No animal deserves to die like that, no matter how much you hate it. It is irresponsible use of the traps, utterly inhumane and heartless people like you should not be using them.

If mice were infesting me for months, I would continue to humanely kill them until the problem is solved. I wouldn't violate my core values by starving a creature to death when it is utterly unnecessary. I'm sorry, but that is immoral and you are a disgusting person for doing so. You are also one of the biggest hypocrites I have seen on the internet. Get some fucking courage and mercy kill the ones that are obviously in great pain, don't leave them to wither to suffer and rot in a garbage bin.

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