Attention: Rodent Control Team
1. Please stop playing with the mice so much that you let them get away. There are several reasons for this.
a. Cleaning up mousie remains when they die in places they can access but you cannot is difficult and unpleasant at best.
b. The frantic squeaking at 3:00 a.m. is extremely disruptive of human sleep.
c. It is disconcerting to know that there was a mousie, but that we don't know where it went or what condition it was in.
2. Once Mommy has found the tiny baby mousie that escaped you (it was hiding in the laundry, Cloud) and captured it in a glass, it is no longer yours. It is mine, to dispose of as I see fit. If you can find it after I've dumped it out in the soybean field, you may catch and eat it, but I am not giving you the chance to lose it again!
Human readers: I know the most effective method of mouse disposal would have been to introduce the wee beastie to our septic system, but I just can't do that to something that's looking up at me.
a. Cleaning up mousie remains when they die in places they can access but you cannot is difficult and unpleasant at best.
b. The frantic squeaking at 3:00 a.m. is extremely disruptive of human sleep.
c. It is disconcerting to know that there was a mousie, but that we don't know where it went or what condition it was in.
2. Once Mommy has found the tiny baby mousie that escaped you (it was hiding in the laundry, Cloud) and captured it in a glass, it is no longer yours. It is mine, to dispose of as I see fit. If you can find it after I've dumped it out in the soybean field, you may catch and eat it, but I am not giving you the chance to lose it again!
Human readers: I know the most effective method of mouse disposal would have been to introduce the wee beastie to our septic system, but I just can't do that to something that's looking up at me.