Like any older building in a big city the hospital I at has mice, little brown mice, and little grey mice, that clean up the random food particles we drop in our dispatch center. We have several co-workers who are terrified of the little guys, this is amusing to me. I accept the fact that they want them out of here, I mean a mouse nest in a computer is a bad thing. They put of the classic mouse trap, in dumb places but none the less they are quick and efficient and the mouse doesn’t suffer.

Those traps were a failure, or at least in the two days they used them.
So they brought in a pest control agency, who immediately laid down glue traps with no bait. Somewhere in my primal hunter’s brain this is an insult to the natural order of things, we do not make animals suffer, and I can’t think of a more cruel way to die than starving to death with my body immobilized by glue. if the glue had a topical poison that put the mouse down quickly and painlessly this would be atleast acceptable. But it doesn’t, and the pest control guy was rather rude to me when I said why not use boz traps or other options.

SO my friends, this of course means war.

Glue traps of this sort have glue on three sides, the bottom and sides. so if you pull the trap out of its fancy plastic box with the pest controls company logo on it, flip it over, and re-insert it, you make a safe pathway for the little creatures, also if you bring in small pieces of gauze that have coyote and cat urine on them and rub them all over the plastic box and place them under the desk, the little mice stay away.

It costs nothing to be respectful of all life, it costs nothing to take a small step to remove a life that wandered into a place it doesn’t belong and take it somewhere safe, perhaps one day the karmic wheel will find me in a bad place I dont belong and someone will take me safely out of there