Creatures great and small

[earthbelow]

So, the mouse is now named Steve McDangermouse, because I liked both names equally well. Unless the mouse is a girl mouse, but I suppose Steve is still okay. Like Stevie Nicks, maybe.

Okay. The mouse is now named Stev(i)e McDangermouse.

We discovered that Stev(i)e's been eating the rice that's in the bowl by Andrew's Buddha statue and zen garden. I don't know whether Buddha would be offended or pleased with this.

I know Andrew is definitely on the side of Not At All Pleased Whatsoever.

I think Stev(i)e may have a shortened life expectancy. We put up some homemade humane traps made with soda bottles and paper towel tubes, and we're going to see how that goes - but Andrew has vowed that if we don't catch it tonight and can't find a better humane trap at K-Mart tomorrow, then we'll use the not-so-humane traps and Stev(i)e dies.

He also thinks it's a bad idea that I named the mouse. He named Nippy and she doesn't even regulate her own body temperature. So I get to name Stev(i)e.

I've never killed a mammal before. I've killed bugs, a bird, and I think I killed a fish once. But never anything that's born in the same way that I am. I'm oddly squeemish about it. I'm not really scared of mice and rats at all. Technically Andrew would be the mouse-killer in question, but still. I'm part of a conspiracy to kill a mouse.

It's weird to think about it, but technically, there's a couple of monkeys trying to kill a mouse. Because humans are just primates. So we're monkeys. A monkey trying to catch a mouse.

If Stev(i)e is smart, s/he'll walk into one of the humane traps so we can take him outside and let him go with hir little rodent life.

Comments

[arpiana.livejournal.com]

We have a really cool rodent trap at my house that electrocutes the rodent instantly. If you've got to kill them, it's a much better way to do it than the snap or sticky traps.