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
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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 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 was at my boyfriend's house, meeting his family for the first time. We were all standing in the kitchen when suddenly a small white and brown mouse ran by. Out of natural instinct, I stomped on it. Turns out, it was his little sister's pet mouse that had gotten out of its cage earlier. FML
Today, I work as an assistant to a sculptor. We finished all our projects early so his wife decided to have me clean their kitchen. I wasn't paying attention and picked up a dead mouse. I screamed and threw it away as hard as I could. It hit their five-year-old son in the face. FML
Today, after I'd saved a baby mouse and was filming a YouTube series of me taking care of it, my boyfriend told me he found a “rat” in the kitchen, but not to worry he killed it and fed it to the cat. He killed my baby mouse, and now he’s mad I didn’t praise him for his brilliant extermination job. 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 found a dead squirrel under my son's bed. Apparently, he has been keeping it there as a "pet" for the past week. FML
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, I woke up to my disabled mother screaming for me. Fearing the worst, I hopped out of bed only to find that she was yelling because her cat had brought a field mouse inside as a gift. The problem? It was still alive. I had to get it from him and throw it outside. 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 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
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guitarbeast 22
Time to go get mister whiskers #2
3rdbass 9
The mouse wasn't asking for a cookie. You didn't need to kill him.
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Comments (214)
QueenChristy 6
Damn why would you do something like that? Lol it's gross anyways :p
XPetrova 10
Buy a new mouse look alike pronto!
newbiehere99 6
1- Why would you comment with something like that? Lol it's dumb anyways :3
xrudeboyrock 29
because... there was a mouse in her house?
skellingtonfart 18
39- Correction, garage. It actually makes me sick when people have the guts to kill an animal. Like the FML about the girl stomping on the boyfriend's sister's pet mouse.
unknown_user5566 27
43- It's not like OP killed the class kitty cat. A mouse is widely viewed as a pest. Sucks that it happened to be the class pet, but OP's reaction to it isn't unheard of.
onlychildFTW 34
You won't want to let mice run around. They are vermin and get into small spaces. FYL OP because your son didn't tell you he brought a pet home. It also makes me sick when people let vermin run around their house. It's gross.
gracehi 33
43, Mice multiply incredibly quickly. They get into your food, and not only eat it, but walk all over it so that it gets contaminated with everything they've stepped in. And if that's not gross enough, I've also heard that they leave a trail of piss and shit everywhere they go. By killing one mouse you may prevent an infestation of hundreds. If OP killed it quickly and humanely, I don't fault them for that. The health of OP's family is more important than a rodent. It's when people use those horrible sticky mouse traps I can't stand. They get stuck there until they die of thirst, which is a horrible way to die. I've heard that mice that get caught in those things get so desperate that they've been known to gnaw off their own feet to escape.
KiddNYC1O 22
^ Ohhh, no wonder the ones I catch with the glue traps escape so easily... Or maybe it's the oil from the peanut butter...
lukemack 4
43, just shut up..
ColdplaySucks 18
43 - Eat bacon, your opinion might change.
nado13579 12
I swear I read this as "moose" the first time. I was wondering why they would have a moose as a class pet.
MichellinMan 20
43- last time I checked the garage was part of the house, that is unless your garage is a complete separate building.
thebeautybleeds 17
165: that's not so in common. Very few people on my street have an attached garage, for example.
onlychildFTW 34
A garage is always part of your house. It is an interior space and is normally added to sq footage. Even if detached. Sometimes garages are also heated and properly sealed air-wise.
Getspmak 15
Cause one do not want mice in their house?
PaigeySlade 7
Omg xD that's horrible...but funny c:
Neonemerld 21
Tell me again how this is even the slightest bit funny?
RvidxrKlvn 8
Because it's on a website that thrives on people's misfortunes?
MichellinMan 20
Am I the only one who's realized this website has turned into a ******* group therapy?
RvidxrKlvn 8
No, not at all. It's actually extremely annoying and you can tell the difference between the commentators now and the ones from like 2 years ago when you go into random FMLs.
FelicityWishes 32
2. Don't worry, I laughed as well. :P
3rdbass 9
The mouse wasn't asking for a cookie. You didn't need to kill him.
ICastillo 25
Mr. Whiskers: hey human can you feed me? It's lunch time. OP: Oh Shit a mouse *steps On Mr. Whiskers violently* Mr. Whiskers: Whhyy *coughs*I just wanted foooo.....*flatlines*
shaagy2760 13
But I like the cookie * sad puppy dog face*
jewwybeanzzz 10
if you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass if milk...
osm1989_fml 6
If this is a reference to the book, I don't remember it ending with the boy killing the mouse. "If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to want a glass of milk to go with it. Then, he'll want.. Oh, **** that, you freeloading mouse! I'ma kill you! The end." However, I kinda like that better.
MrPlopper 9
143-"over the hedge" reference?
ihaveFMLfeverr 5
I still have the book "If you take a mouse to school" :)
guitarbeast 22
Time to go get mister whiskers #2
Inheritance 10
Little Stuart is a better name.
chickenflem 8
And not leave it roaming around the garage before big sis kills it.
Neonemerld 21
Might want to reread the FML, 19. It was the mother, not the sister.
skellingtonfart 18
16- it's Stuart Little...
Inheritance 10
Oh shit! I was in a rush to get a awesome post
DespairFaction 11
Exactly, no one will ever know.
chickenflem 8
33 I know. If the mother bought another mouse why would she kill it again that's why I picked another family member....
WatsonIsThatDood 6
Yay first!!! But anyway YDI. Mice are peaceful loving creatures just as you are. They have a family and offspring. Mice sole purpose is to make it day to day just like we do.
BulldogHoops 14
Sure... "first".
Feared 9
So close...
newbiehere99 6
Yet so far ...
eddeeezzyy 19
Well that's gonna be an awkward explanation to the teacher...
Rddvl 11
I don't understand though why wouldn't the mouse be in a cage? If it was just running around in the garage, then OP wouldn't be at fault to want to kill it. If it was in a cage, then OP should have asked her son about it.
Bookoholic 11
It probably got out somehow.
SS 31
It would be more awkward explanation for OP from the teacher to say why there was a mouse in their house! :/
Whaaaaaat734 6
You could've let it out into the wilderness OP..Yes they're vermin but that was a bit of an over reaction.
JAMSM 6
So killing cockroaches is fine, but killing the third most disease ridden pest on earth is bad? Tell me what the cockroach did wrong.
BlueFlatts 20
Mice are small animals, cockroaches are giant bugs. So animals are meant to be loved and bugs are meant to be squished. Example: King Kong vs. alien roach in MIB. Plus we are of course jealous that roaches will be around to see the new year.
gracehi 33
59, Because mammals have souls and bugs don't. That's my theory, anyway.
Isoldael 27
I'd put mice and cockroaches outside alike, but yea... The misconception that everything that's cute and fluffy should be rescued and everything scaly, slimy or 6-legged should be killed is still all too common :(
Alexstraza_fml 5
Because had it been wild, it found its way to the house, what's to say it won't find it's way there again?
LiesAndMischief 4
59 - I don't even like killing insects. Ask my mom, it bugs the hell out of her. Granted, I'm a little less enthusiastic about bees but that's because I have an honest phobia of them.
Pyapi 20
I have a huge problem with killing animals. Whenever my mom frantically kills the tarantula's that appear in the house from time to time I get really mad. The only animals I have no problem killing are mosquitoes and parasites(Fleas, lice, etc).
cantgetworse14 2
They come back to your house once they know how to get it
Whaaaaaat734 6
137- Have you ever tried bacon??
BulldogHoops 14
Well, I can maybe understand if it was loose in there, but if he had it contained, that was clearly an immense overreaction. If not, it probably would have gotten lost anyway.
rmjmjm123 1
Haha, yea, i'm sure she found a mouse in a cage and then proceeded to beat it to death.
BulldogHoops 14
Not necessarily a cage. The kid is young, he may have just put it in a bin.
ryry013 6
I see what youre saying, but I'm sure the parents would be more involved in the care taking (specifically the shelter here) instead of just letting a seven year old handle it by himself
Feared 9
Nobody really likes a teacher's pet anyway.
MichellinMan 20
Yea, really. I accidentally killed my third grade teacher's class pet. She hated me.
LolPieRofl 11
I killed the annoying class pet on purpose, what an annoying kid who did whatever the teacher told him to do. Wait we're talking bout an actual pet? Oh...
KVKdragon 26
Unless its some dangerous critter, I wouldn't have killed it if I couldn't help it. Why'd you have to kill that poor innocent creature? :(
aJaguarinRed 9
Because it deserved to die!
BulldogHoops 14
Additional commenting rule: PETA activists forbidden.
annie_nk 23
10 - Mice can be dangeeous. They can carry all sorts of diseases and if one is in your kitchen, you're gonna want to set up traps. Even though the mouse was a class pet, OP didn't know that.
rangerPat 12
10- your statement makes my brain hurt. What idea are you truly conveying with "I would not have killed it if I could not have helped it."
KVKdragon 26
@155 Yes, it's a little messed up. Blame autocorrect for that. I'm usually more elaborate and grammatically correct with my statements (virtual or real life)