Today, while standing by the kitchen window I noticed a mouse running across our lawn on top of the snow. I called my two daughters to come see it, but by the time they got to the window a hawk was shredding the poor thing to pieces. My kids didn't stop crying for two hours. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found a mouse in my kitchen. Wanting to go about it the humane way, I captured the little guy and released it outside. I then watched as a stray cat in my yard noticed and brutally murdered it. No good deed… FML
Today, after we finished making my 6 year-old daughter a net to catch an injured baby bird, when she went out to catch it she witnessed a stray cat catch and eat it. FML
Today, I came home to find a mouse in the garage. Frantic, I killed it. My 7-year-old son came home from soccer, and started crying because he couldn't find the class pet, Mr. Whiskers. I killed my son's class pet. FML
Today, I ran over a squirrel. I saw it twitching, so I backed over it to end its suffering. It wasn't a squirrel; it was a kitten. The children it belonged to watched as I ran over their kitten. Twice. FML
Today, my daughter, who can pick up spiders and even snakes without flinching, screamed at the top of her lungs because she saw a mouse. Um, what? FML
Today, I found a mouse stuck in a glue trap at work. I had to take it home to get it off with oil, and then I released it outside. Twenty minutes later, the cat returned it to me, dead. After that, the dogs dug it up where I buried it. Sorry, mouse. FML
Today, I woke up to what sounded like twigs snapping. Turns out it was the skull of a live mouse being crushed in my cat's jaws. FML
Today a big-ass hawk swooped down and carried off my daughter’s dog. FML
Today, I ran into my infant daughter's room because I thought I heard her crying, and found she was still sound asleep in her crib. The screams were coming from the mouse our cat was using to paint her bedroom walls. FML
Today, I found my cat downstairs with a squirrel dangling from his mouth. When I saw this, I yelled at my cat to put it down. He did. Turns out the squirrel was still alive and run. I had to spend the next three hours chasing it out of my house. FML
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sierralm 4
That sounds like a traumatic experience, especially if they had just finished watching Ratatouille or something. I totally would have cried.
capslockisgood 19
Theres a line between not caring about the life of a rodent and being sadistic. You crossed it.
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Comments (119)
dwtomek 0
This is a valuable life lesson. Hamburgers do not grow on trees made of smiles in hamburglarland.
starzchick 0
I know how you feel, there was a cat (a neighbours somewhere) that would always come around our front porch, and if my daughter was outside, it would follow her around. (We can't have cats due to my severe allergy) and then one day, on the road directly outside our house, it got smoked by a truck. It was there for an hour or so until someone came and removed it. She stood at the window and cried for ages. and even after it was gone, there was still a big mess where it had been.. I felt so bad for her.
monkey314159 0
uh... who wants ice cream?
PattisonDaStud 0
ur kids are wimps and should die
notnormal 0
um, are you high? what the hell is wrong with you? "you're kids [...] should die?" who says that??
Thunderbender 2
So the comments ripping on little children for being ******* are kept and deemed A Ok but mine defending the innocence of little kids gets take on off. That makes sense. *waits for this comment to get moderated*
iSwag 0
Fifel!!!
nomo_ideas 0
and when did you learn that??? not all kids NEED to know about this at a young age just that they shouldnt go near it or let it inside theyll learn when theyre older
KISSArmy1993 0
That, my friends, is NATURE. I saw a hawk eat a mouse at that age at a nature preserve. Thought it was the prettiest birdy ever and didn't even mind the mess on its feet and beak - I figured it had to eat, and my mom was the one that was disturbed! Maybe some kids just aren't ready to know about the food chain yet, though...
partymaster 2
i feel more bad for the mouse
Redders123 1
When I was little, I would have been traumatized, too. Heck, even now I wouldn't want to see that! Poor little thing!