Today, I placed sticky mouse traps in my bedroom. it's now 12:05 a.m. and I've successfully caught a mouse. Too bad I'm scared of them and my husband is passed out asleep. I now get to listen to a mouse squeak all night and have to be up in 4 hours. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I set up a mouse trap to kill the rodent plaguing my kitchen. While lying in bed, I heard an unmistakable snap, and ran to see what I'd caught. The mouse trap was missing. I now have a large, angry, and possibly dying animal running around my house. FML
Today, I bought some mouse traps that instructed me to avoid touching them with my bare hands, as human smells would deter the mice from the traps. I was woken up at 2 a.m. by a mouse crawling on my head. I don't think my smell is an issue. FML
Today, I set a trap to catch a mouse that ran across my foot. Not only did the trap shut on my finger twice, but I watched the mouse run over the trap without it snapping shut. I guess I have a new roommate. FML
Today, I awoke at two in the morning to my cat putting his most recent kill on my chest. When I jumped up screaming, the dead mouse went flying and now my husband and I can't find it. Better yet, now both my husband and my cat are giving me the silent treatment. FML
Today, at around 12 a.m. I went to bed, happy that I get to sleep in because I had nowhere be in the morning. Sadly that came to an end when I woke up around 7 a.m. to my mom coming home and screaming because she saw a mouse. FML
Today, I went to empty a mousetrap, only to discover that SOMETHING had eaten the dead mouse's brain and eyeballs. I reset the trap, only to find a half-dead mouse struggling to get out an hour later. My office is like its own tiny little horror movie. FML
Today, around 2:00 a.m. I had just sat down on my couch when I noticed one of my cats poking at what appeared to be a toy. I attempted to pick it up to play with the cat when it started to move like a mouse. I squealed like a girl and woke up my wife upstairs. I'm a 26-year-old man. FML
Today, I had mice in the house and had to kill them with mousetraps. I pulled a trap out with a dead mouse and my four year-old son saw. Mice are his favorite animals, and now he won’t speak to me. FML
Today, I woke up at 6 a.m. and went into the kitchen, where I saw a mouse in front of the fridge. Petrified, I stood in the doorway shooing it for a few minutes. My husband then walked into the kitchen, picked up the "mouse", and threw it in the bin. It was a used tea bag. FML
Today, I woke up to a mouse sitting on my pillow and chewing on my hair. FML
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catwomam 15
So you're just going to let the mouse suffer all night?
askullnamedbilly 33
Uhh... if you're REALLY a mouse lover as your name and choice of trap suggests, you might think about waking your husband up or facing your fears. Mice don't react all that well to stress, especially not hour long fear for their life. You might wake up to a dead mouse because its heart has given out.
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Comments (112)
Razell 13
You can get re-useable mouse traps in both live-trap and quick-kill versions. Sticky traps are great for bugs, but for the love of little green apples, don't use them on vertibrates.
klutz44 28
My parents had sticky traps in our basement to catch crickets. One day my dog (who is usually scared of the basement) decided to investigate down there. The next thing I know she has glue traps on 3 paws and is clacking around, trying to shake them off. It was hilarious. Luckily, I think the ones made for crickets don't use very strong glue (or these were really old) so I could just pull them off. Then I washed her paws and she was (physically) fine.
blackrose1996 11
That what you get for being cruel use and using and awful trap like that next time get a live trap and have your husband release it away from your house
blackrose1996 11
Also a bit ironic your name for the post is mouselover must not love them that much to be so cruel
FoxOne_fml 12
Sorry but you deserve it for using sticky torture device that ought to be illegal. Best case the mouse dies from stress (fear) before it dies from thirst. If you don't want to wake up your husband take a knife, shovel or basically anything and depr rate head from body to end its suffering.
NostalgiaFreak9 43
Woman up and deal with the mouse yourself.
scififemme 23
There are enclosed traps that instantly kill the mouse. Better to use than sticky traps and you don't have to see the dead mouse afterwards.
worthypegram1 13
That's really inhumane. That mouse is suffering. There is nothing to be scared of. YDI
tbrown0089 16
I really hate to say this but the reason it was squeaking is because it's trying to get loose and the traps are so sticky it's ripping it's hair and skin off. Yet you call yourself a mouse lover
glossyeyes 3
Why would you want to hurt a mouse? You're EVIL.
aquila0989 7
YDI, for placing sticky traps. My friend is afraid of mice too but she at least has the decency to end their suffering when they get caught in a trap.