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May 09 @ 12:10am

I caught a mouse the other night. I named him Nugget after a chat with etcvisitor. I hate these city space invaders. We still let him go in a lovely park.

Chuck Damage says:: I'm glad there's a caption, because I only sort of see a mouse.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 12:12am - ∞

Chuck Damage says:: Mice rule balls.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 12:12am - ∞

bhretters says:: Yeah, looks like poop in a jar, but I'll take your word for it.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 12:14am - ∞

Dschonn says:: I'd'a named him Mickey.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 12:17am - ∞

johnatcollege says:: Good choice of name. I'd have been tempted to keep him.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 12:48am - ∞

Klickastache says:: Eek! Nice fade!
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 1:49am - ∞

ThatGuy says:: Awesome. How did you trap it? We had a few mice around during whiskerino. I caught and relocated all of those too.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 5:04am - ∞

Jason says:: that was kind.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 5:42am - ∞

Marina says:: @justjamey, you named him nugget? I thought he was a nugget. And I love that you let him go in a lovely park!
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 5:56am - ∞

teenagerobot says:: i'm also curious about how you nabbed him
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 5:59am - ∞

The Straub says:: I image the situation playing out where you were on a chair lifting up your dress and yelling eeeeeeeeeek
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 6:24am - ∞

keifel says:: you know that he'll come back right.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 7:24am - ∞

Clever Chester says:: so...mice are from space?
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 7:33am - ∞

Hodges says:: You are better than I, there is no chance of relocation from my house!
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 8:17am - ∞

Hungarian Moustache says:: Watch out for the ravens.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 9:22am - ∞

justjamey says:: @dschonn marina I am generally anti-McDonald's, but in a moment of weakness, I bought some McNuggets. Then I caught the mouse, and thought that responsible captivity required feeding the captives.

chuckdamage bhretters You have to zoom. Then he looks very much like a mouse. He was cute. Seeing him run off was awesome - he was like a kangaroo.

thatguy I'm impressed with your compassion! I got lucky on this catch...he fell in the sink and couldn't get out. There is still one more mouse that I know of in the kitchen. teenagerobot

keifel I dropped him about 2 miles away in the park/garden of a "compassionate" pro-recycling community center. I figure if he invades their space, he has a good chance of a long life.

hodges marina jason I have uncomfortably killed mice before, and the one that is currently in my house is going to get killed by poison provided by my landlord if I don't catch him first. Really, what saved his hide was me imagining how to kill him in a swift way. I couldn't really think of one. At least with a trap, you don't figure it out until it's too late. Kinda depersonalizes the whole situation. ;)

thestraub SHHH! Don't tell anyone!

Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 10:22am - ∞

Hodges says:: This may sound bad but I learned this in a mammalogy class in college. The most humane was to kill and animal would be to put them in some sort of bag, put it around the tailpipe of your car and turn it on. It puts them to sleep forever. Don't know if this helps you at all.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 10:26am - ∞

Eric says:: When cleaning out the garage a few years ago, I stumbled upon a mouse nest. I was prepared to start smashing them with a shovel.

Luckily for them, they just ran into the neighboring field.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 10:30am - ∞

keeperofthefort says:: mouses creep me out. except for Fievel. clame.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 11:28am - ∞

ThatGuy says:: @justjamey if you want to catch the other one, just put some peanut butter inside one end of an old paper towel roll and balance it on the edge of your kitchen counter with the PB end hanging over. Put a bagless trashcan under the roll. The mouse will walk into the tube for the PB and before it can help it, it will cause the tube to fall into the trash can with mouse along for the ride. If you leave the bag in, it will have a better shot at climbing out. Good luck. Full disclaimer: mattyc showed me this trick, and it works very well.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 12:17pm - ∞

Paulie says:: Free pets are the best kind of pets.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 12:25pm - ∞

chadmcclarnon says:: i caught a mole yesterday....I killed him with a shovel. You're a better man than I
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 1:39pm - ∞

Lehcar says:: I hope you visit him daily in said park.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 7:15pm - ∞

wondermade says:: I'm always torn on what to do with mice. FYI many mice are actually rats that just look mousey.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 8:30pm - ∞

wondermade says:: (Makes it easier for me to make decisions.)
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 8:30pm - ∞

OhMyGoshman says:: I killed a mouse when we first moved into our house, I've never stopped feeling guilty.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 8:35pm - ∞

Klickastache says:: I mentioned I like this...right? I LIKE THIS.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 11:14pm - ∞

C Dub says:: is there a code, a convention if you will, for such captives?

once my Mom woke me in the middle of the night to borrow my pellet gun (I'm from Indiana. All Hoosier boys are given pellet guns for Christmas or by their 10th birthday). there was a wounded mouse in the kitchen. he had almost escaped the trap. Caught one leg and was limping roun the baseboards. after three shots she hit it.

in the same house, aside a cornfield, our microwave kept shorting out. a couple of times it straight caught on fire. Given that they were Kenmore we were able to exchange them at Sears no questions asked...until the final return where the technician asked if we had a mouse problem. buggers were climbing in from underneath somehow and electrocuting themselves. they weren't getting nuked; just shocked to smithereens. little, fuzzy, burnt feet. remixes us of the end of Cat's Eye.
Posted: May 9th, 2011 - 11:49pm - ∞