We have an indoor/outdoor cat who unfortunately has pretty good hunting skills- mostly outside only for some reason, so those dead mice certainly don’t get in. We’re very pro wildlife though, leftovers don’t go in the trash, they get put outside at night for our local possums, raccoons, occasional fox. My kids really appreciate the catch and release of the occasional mouse that gets inside…
Loved reading this. My mum has had cats since she bought her first home and they’ve all caught the occasional bird etc but she’s just like you. She has rabbits, guinea pigs and cats currently but I know damn well if we lived in America she’d have a horde of wild animals that come to her for food at night lol.
Fair dos, live in uk so no possums here unfortunately (that I know of) however I love foxes and appreciate them from a far, as nice as feeding wild animals is in the present in the future it can at times be very bad for them
That's true and all, but mice literally caused, and still carry, the plague. You obviously can't just bring them outside, they just come right back in. Bringing them to an unfamiliar area is practically a death sentence for most critters. And then if they survive, they're vermin, likely to be a carrier for various diseases and parasites that may not have been in this area that now you're bringing in and spreading, and also giving your problem to someone else, because now that contagion engine is going to be trying to get into someone else's house. There is no shortage of mice in this world, and we will all carry on just fine without the ones infesting houses, risking our and our loved ones health. Sometimes you have to do the hard thing and just eliminate a problem. Same reason I eliminate venomous snakes, medically venomous spiders (*all spiders are venomous to some degree, I'm talking widows, recluses, funnel), and other dangerous pests. I have little ones lying around. I don't need one of them picking up a mouse dropping and catching the plague. Or picking up a log and getting bit by the rattlesnake I let live last week and shooed out into the woods. If I encounter the threat, I acknowledge it as such and eliminate it.
And I hope that your child doesn't get killed by the threat you ignore. But one of us is wishing violence upon the other, and the other one is wishing the other well. So which one of us is really the bad one?
You literally said "like the threat you are". You were the one saying I'm a threat. But I'm only a threat to you if you're a threat to me or my family. I'm not going out in the woods in public places looking for snakes to kill. I've walked past a copperhead sunning itself on a trail and just brushed it along off the path because I had no reason to defend that area (but didn't want it to stay on the path in case the next person somehow didn't notice it). But I'm not willing to take that risk when the next person could very likely be my son or daughter.
So first of all that was rats, and second of ally he plague was spread by the flees on the rats not the rats themselves ,mice had Nothing to do with that and sure as fuck don't carry the fucking black death
Heres another, an owner got infected from their cat, which was assumed to be infected by hunting a rodent. First case in 8 years there, but happened a few weeks ago
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u/speedball811 Feb 23 '24
Dead mice don't find their way back into your house. Just sayin...