Omg omg omg.

[Laurelin]

Nightmare fuel over here.

I have not seen a mouse in months but this morning I found 2 poops. Great.

I get home from work and Mia has a ****ing dead mouse. I am about to puke. I think she didn't kill it but was playing with it? Idk. I didn't see any blood on her or anywhere.

Also there was a live mouse in my trap. I'm seriously about to cry. I hate these things!

 

[stardogs]

Hey, she's just practicing for barn hunt.

 

[gapeach]

I'm right there with you on it. Except I think I'm worse...if we have a dead one in a trap, it stays right there until my husband comes home, I won't even open the cabinet again. We had a live one in a trap...dragging itself around in the cabinets, it stayed until my husband came home.
Once our last dog Carey had something I thought was a dead frog...when I went to pick it up with a paper towel I saw it was a hairless baby mouse....I screamed, dropped it and covered it with a bucket until (I guess you know by now lol) my husband came home.
Don't ask me why they freak me out so much or why there was such a difference between a dead frog or a dead mouse....there just is. And live ones are no better....once I was in the kitchen with my daughter in a walker, a mouse ran out from the bottom of the stove....I hauled butt out of the kitchen leaving my daughter with the mouse!!!
It's not something I'm proud of...I just can't control it.

 

[sillysally]

Sally has killed several small fuzzies (though never a mouse, the one thing I'd love her to hunt and kill) and there is rarely any blood--Mia may very well have killed it! Good dog!

 

[Laurelin]

Mia busted through the livetrap while I went to get my box to carry it to release it and just shook the other mouse to death right in front of me It's twitching. I have no idea how she busted the livetrap- it's metal and glass and she took the top right off.

I'm in a panic attack (literally) right now. I DON'T handle dead rodents at all and I barely got the first moved. No idea how to remove the second.

Omg I shouldn't be crying over dead mice but I am!

 

[JazzyTheSibe]

I would be terrified if I saw a mouse in my house., probably have panic attack, because they scare me to death. I would run out of the room,still be scared, & then I would start crying. Probably screaming the whole time saying "Get the mouse out of here", or something similar.

Though, I have no problems with mice, I actually want one.

 

[BostonBanker]

Do you have an old shoebox? If you aren't up for picking it up with a plastic bag like a poop, use a shoebox. You can push it in with the lid, immediately cover it, and pretend it is just full of ugly shoes as you carry it to the curb.

 

[Laurelin]

Do you have an old shoebox? If you aren't up for picking it up with a plastic bag like a poop, use a shoebox. You can push it in with the lid, immediately cover it, and pretend it is just full of ugly shoes as you carry it to the curb.

That's kind of what I did but I screamed every time it moved and almost started hyperventilating... I know... lame but I recognize I have a serious fear of small furry dead things.

 

[Laurelin]

I think Mia did kill both mice now though.

Can I throw up now?

 

[BostonBanker]

That's kind of what I did but I screamed every time it moved and almost started hyperventilating... I know... lame but I recognize I have a serious fear of small furry dead things.

I have a meltdown when I'm around a live chicken. I mock nobody for their fears.

 

[Whisper]

Hey Laur, would it help you to know my cat caught a mouse today and when I tried to save it, it bit me? Rabies and tetanus shots tomorrow. Not cool.

I've never been too squeamish about small dead things, but in having Fable, any reservations I may have had went out the door. She's the best hunter I've ever known. Lots of small animal murder. :/

 

[sassafras]

Good dog, Mia!

 

[Laurelin]

Oh and this one is worse because I'm half convinced it's still partially alive. Even though it hasn't moved at all.

 

[Laurelin]

I need a husband just so he can take care of dead things.

 

[sassafras]

She's de-verminating your apartment for you.

Last summer a colony or whatever of mice made their home in the vegetation that grew up along the bottom of the privacy fence. Squash spent a lot of time hunting them and when he caught one, he'd flip it up in the air then re-catch it and gulp it, Jurassic-park style.

The cats do an excellent job of keeping them out of the house. But I have occasionally stepped on a bloody half-eaten corpse early in the morning and that is pretty gross.

 

[katielou]

I think Mia did kill both mice now though.

Can I throw up now?

Mia is a bad ass!

 

[Oko]

You should rent her out for pest control!

 

[sillysally]

She's de-verminating your apartment for you.

Last summer a colony or whatever of mice made their home in the vegetation that grew up along the bottom of the privacy fence. Squash spent a lot of time hunting them and when he caught one, he'd flip it up in the air then re-catch it and gulp it, Jurassic-park style.

The cats do an excellent job of keeping them out of the house. But I have occasionally stepped on a bloody half-eaten corpse early in the morning and that is pretty gross.

The Squash image is totally cracking me up right now--your dog is my hero....

I would love it if Sally killed mice! She gets possums like nobodies business, but is apparently too good to bother with mice.

 

[JazzyTheSibe]

You should rent her out for pest control!

That would be great. Are you having a pest problem? Have you tried everything but nothing as worked?

Then rent Mia today!

 

[Laurelin]

Oh she is getting a BATH! Or 10.

Poor Summer doesn't like that I was screaming all over the place. She was freaked out.