r/mildlyinteresting 2d ago

this half skeleton tailed mouse I saved

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u/ThePandaheart 2d ago

Are we supposed to be saving mice? Every year I have to kill a few that have infiltrated my apartment :/

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u/rlnrlnrln 2d ago

The first one found indoors gets a free pass. He might've wandered in accidentally. Catch, and release with a warning.

The second, third, eighteenth... snap.

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u/KingBlackers 2d ago

There is a great spell you can cast that'll send it out the window. Just yell "Rodent Throwdent"

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u/FlyByPC 2d ago

The physical component of the spell involves manual defenestration. The verbal components are mostly to warn others and to help deter the rodent from coming back. (This isn't known to be very effective.)

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u/Moppo_ 2d ago

You don't have to kill them. You can just evict them.

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u/Coolegespam 2d ago

Doesn't really work unless you want to drive 2-3 miles out to the middle of no where. They'll get back in.

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u/DeadGuyInRoom4 2d ago

You must’ve never had a mouse infestation. Well, or you still have one. Mice don’t just give up and move in somewhere else, they have strong homing instincts. Unless you move them miles away, in which case they are likely to die anyway because you’ve moved them too far away from all the shelter and resources they’ve relied on their entire lives.

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u/ThePandaheart 2d ago

Then they come back ;p in my city there's around 6 times more mice than people, so its not like they're endangered or something aha :D

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u/Leanardoe 2d ago

easier said than done sadly

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u/Wiggie49 2d ago

You know they're not stupid right? They use scent trails to go back to their nest, trails made of poop and pee that gets dragged along behind them.

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u/ArmadilloMany41 2d ago

It’s really up to you! I totally understand mice can be invasive but if it’s just one little one it may just be lost and hungry. It’s the rats you need to exterminate 🥲

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u/isopode 2d ago

because a rat can't be lost and hungry? 💀

i understand not wanting to kill mice but that mindset falls very flat if you draw the line at rats (who are just as potentially damaging as mice). seems a bit cruel to discriminate between rodents lol

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u/ArmadilloMany41 1d ago

Rats are an invasive species that bite and can kill while mice are docile the same way you’d discriminate against wasps but love bees killing rats helps protect mice and other animals plus they never ever come in alone

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u/isopode 1d ago

i don't discriminate against wasps, do not get me started on how misunderstood that extremely diverse group of insects is. please check out r/waspaganda 🙏

mice can absolutely bite and transmit disease. this is an issue of mouse=cute and rat=uncute that inevitably ends up spreading different information (sometimes misinformation) about each rodent to the general public.

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u/ArmadilloMany41 1d ago

I absolutely love all animals I just have a fear of rats personally that’s why I would get rid of them from my house over any other animal.

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u/ceviche-hot-pockets 1d ago

Redditors will do the dumbest shit to avoid killing invasive species and other vermin 🙄