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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powerkeep 24
I can only imagine what your child's expression was!
sdh715 6
Maybe she was phobic of mice. I am, mice and rats scare the shit out of me. When I see them I am too terrified to think rationally about whether or not they should be spared. I however choose to run as fast as I can
Dylan_White 5
A mouse is a lame class pet anyway this gives the class incentive to get a cooler pet
cmb8280 24
... What do you mean by "killed" it? When I have mice I either set traps to kill them or, if my cat corners one, I catch it in a glass jar and walk it somewhere outside away from the house and release it. How does one just "kill" a mouse?
GhostChickens 17
That was my question too. I had a mouse once and there was no way I could have killed it immediately, it was just too fast for me and it was like it had its escape routes already planned out! It took days of laying out humane traps, a whole jar of peanut butter and various other foods to finally get it.
aeromachine 7
your life sucks? at least you still have a life.
kennaem1 11
How did you not know that your son had his class pet at your house? YDI for sure
monkiki62 5
Frantic u killed a mouse? Its a mouse not a brown recluse. Ydi. And how did you not know your son brought home the school pet i mean come on.
monkiki62 5
Frantic u killed a mouse? Its a mouse not a brown recluse. Ydi. And how did you not know your son brought home the school pet i mean come on.
RocketNinjaFish 12
YDI for killing a mouse. I had mice as pets for a while, and they're beautiful creatures. Same as rats. They're not as bad as people think they are.
Ameel_fml 19
Until you end up with an infestation of mice or an illness from the potential diseases they carry. I love animals. I also think mice are cute. But there's a difference between a cute little pet mouse and a potentially-diseased wild one being inside the house, and the OP obviously thought the mouse was the latter. I remember when I was little, we had a mouse infestation because mum refused to kill any mice she saw in the house. So they'd always make their way back to the house, breed, and we'd end up with even more mice in the hose next season. They ended up everywhere, even getting in our bird aviary too and killing some of the baby birds when they first left the nest. Must have looked like easy food or something. :( So yeah...I don't begrudge anyone for killing pests they find in their house. As long as it's done quickly and humanely.
RocketNinjaFish 12
I can see your point of view, and I understand that an infestation can't be very pleasant, and there is a big difference between a wild mouse a pet mouse. However, I just can't see how anyone can kill an animal, even if it is a wild mouse. I usually release them where there are more houses around. However, I do see why people think they're pests and I understand your point of view.
GhostChickens 17
I don't think OP cared whether it was a mouse or a rat, she just thought it was vermin and killed it.