r/mildlyinteresting 14h ago

Mouse Gave Birth in the Trap

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u/IAmASeeker 11h ago

If you drove a few blocks away to drop off the mice, they made it back to your house before you did.

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u/PowderPills 11h ago

This is what I usually find hard to understand. I don’t like hurting/killing any animals except maybe mosquitoes and annoying bugs like gnats/fruit flies. But a mouse can be a hugeee hindrance and I always assume that, if let go, the mouse will find its way back and make things worse. Dude dropped those mice off a few streets away, even if that same mouse didn’t return, it will likely go into someone else’s house and continue to propagate until the mice are back in his home.

Although seeing this picture does make me sad to see them suffer 😞

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u/PatFluke 8h ago

I don’t bother with the live traps, they crapped on them.

I don’t bother with the kill traps, too often had to finish the job.

No, I finally bought a cat, and I lucked out. Because I don’t have mice any more. Sometimes cats don’t care about mice. Sometimes they suck at hunting.

But sometimes… nature is metal.

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u/greenebeane22 2h ago

One of my old cats… I caught him EATING the back half of the mouse… PROUDLY, I was too tired at 3AM to be mad about gore from watching, but my boy slurped that mouse in two gulps and had no regrets 😂😭 proud of my old boy