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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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ariverperson 11
was it not in some sort of cage? and he didnt even ask if he could take a pet round, your son just left the mouse running around your garage? how were you supposed to know, FYL
errantzoologist 10
Exactly my thoughts. I apologise if I seem judgemental, but how can your 7yo bring home a pet and you be completely oblivious!?
AllegroRubato 16
Oh no!! What a sucky situation! D: I feel so bad for both you and your son!! Maybe you can replace it, and not break his heart? D:
Zebediabolical 45
What kind of parenting is it that you don't even know it's your childs turn to bring home the class pet? YDI.
spaboolly 26
This is what I was thinking. My school had a few pets and the teachers all required written permission from the parents to let the kids take them home over the weekend. I can't imagine the OP not knowing and not supervising the kid. Plus the overreaction to a pretty much harmless creature.
Neonemerld 21
They same type of parents that would eat a turkey their child nursed back to health.
JAMSM 6
So children never trick parent into signing thing without reading, or forge signatures? You can't assume the parent is at fault. It could be either the child or the parent. But the one most at fault is the stupid as mouse for leaving the cage
gracehi 33
61, Yes, because rodents are responsible for their actions. Anyway, OP's husband or wife may be then one responsible for keeping track of the children's schooling and stuff like that, while OP may be primarily concerned with other responsibilities.
lilhellian 27
Are you all crazy? Op probably did give permission.. But she probably thought that the pet was in a different room in the cage. If any of y'all see a mouse y'all will probably kill it.
Isoldael 27
Or maybe dad gave consent while mom wasn't home and he hadn't had a chance to tell mom yet?
SamanthaCassieL 10
I was thinking why wasn't it in a cage? And if it was than why are you killing it then? Like.. This isn't good parenting for (if they live together or have another guardian) on anyone's part... Ydi
Zebediabolical 45
If you can't tell the difference between a 7yo's fake signature and the mom's real one, you probably shouldn't be a teacher.
olpally 33
The game of "mouse trap" came to mind... You did it wrong, op. D:
SUPA_TOLL_CAL 6
Why YDI, I always forget to tell my parents about school stuff. don't blame him for not knowing.
LolPieRofl 11
Learn to hit the reply button bro
LolPieRofl 11
Learn to hit the reply button bro
PunkySpunky78 15
Why did you kill the mouse? It was a mouse and not rat or roach
CallmeRyuzaki 0
So? Are we discriminating according to size now?
JAMSM 6
More like species discrimination, but if you're against species discrimination, then by all means, go marry a newt.
ICastillo 25
KILL THEM ALL!!
BlackIce911 17
63- Towns person: She's a witch! She turned me into a newt! Inquisitor: A newt? Towns person: I got better.
ijustlikecatsok 5
If it's okay to kill a mouse and not say... a cat, isn't that also discriminating based on size? Cats are equally as capable of carrying disease as mice - the only difference is that they're more widely viewed as pets that pests. YDI OP, maybe next time you should think about buying a container trap rather than killing something that chose to live about as much as you did. inb4 people tell me all about mice and breeding, you're too late, humans are already overpopulated and apparently more caring of details about mouse-deaths rather than valuing sentient life.
RocketNinjaFish 12
127: I agree completely. Mice and rats are no worse than other animals. I've had both as pets and they never caused us any harm. People need to stop hating these animals so much, they're harmless. The son's mouse wasn't doing anything wrong at all, and the OP didn't have the right to take it's life. It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
osm1989_fml 6
Your comment wasn't entirely relevant, except for the fact that a newt was mentioned, but a Monty Python reference gets a thumbs up in my book. This was also irrelevant.
Supganosh 2
But it's fine to kill a bluejay. You may need to re-read to kill a mockingbird
foxholeathiest 4
Victory
anythingmustbe 18
Seems like Mrs Whiskers is a widow now. RIP
echosaints 5
When i was in school almost every kid who got to take a class pet home came back without it. Don't worry teachers understand, but I would had gone ane get a new mouse if ur kid was upset.
SUPA_TOLL_CAL 6
Also who mentionned releasing it into the wild? killing it would be quik and way better. pet mice can't get food in the wild because they're not used to get their own food they would die a slow painfull death of starvation.
spaboolly 26
Think about this a little more. She went into her garage. Saw an unfamiliar animal. Apparently had no knowledge of her son bringing home a class pet. I'm pretty sure it's safe to assume OP thought it was a wild mouse to begin with....
interesting33 37
It sounds like the OP thought it was a wild mouse and didn't realise it was a pet mouse
ur2nvthis85 3
There are people in the world that die a slow death of starvation as well. Kill them too because they can't access food? It's the fact that it's a living thing. The cycle is more natural to let it go and possibly let it find another place to find food, like a neighbors house. This way the death of a living creature, pest or not, isn't in the hands of the exterminator.
JAMSM 6
56 - so suffering is better than death? This is a question of ethics. Let a creature suffer, on the chance it outlives said suffering, or spare it through means of death?
BlueFlatts 20
56 - So you would release a possibly disease ridden animal on your neighbors house? What a nice person you are because of course you don't want a guilty conscience. It's not like they could possibly get bitten and they're so nice they would just let it live with them.
ur2nvthis85 3
"Release into the wild"...no control over where it would end up. A neighbor's house, a meal for the cat, dying of starvation. My point is many don't value life in whatever form and if you are proposing that this pet that was once in a child's classroom is diseased? Doubtful or that's another FML all together.
ur2nvthis85 3
65- An aspect of life is ambiguity. By removing that with the definite death is unethical.
interesting33 37
I'm sure that's not what they meant at all - 56 does have a point and so do you. But they aren't being a bad person by deciding to release it I think.