Sammy Grigio
Avid Member
I'll try to address everyone's curiosity here in one breath. With the sticky trips, if it caught a mouse I would remove it outside as soon as I noticed, say a little prayer for the mouse (so it doesn't suffer) and hit it in the head with a hammer to quickly dispatch it. I hate killing ANYTHING. I just don't have the heart to kill a living creature whether it's a mouse or even a bee or bug just because. If it's food, that's fine. If it's a pest, that too is fine but I can't feel comfortable unless it's done quickly and efficiently. I hate suffering. We all do.
The magnitude of this problem cannot be solved with extermination. As it was brought out, the dead bodies would just rot in the walls and anywhere else there was felled mice. We have decided to have the house condemned. We are fortunate that our home owners insurance is essentially going to cover the cost of a new home. We are very sad, obviously, but also relieved. The idea of moving back into a house with rotting mice invokes nothing but feelings of dread and doom. The cost of demolition and reconstruction might even exceed the cost of a new home. That was a determination made by our insurance agent. We are blessed to have the resources to make a transition like this possible much less fairly simple, though not without heavy hearts.
My wife and I pride ourselves on being clean people. Our home was always clean, tidy and in showroom form. I understand that being clean people doesn't make one(s) immune to an infestation, but all of this has left us feeling like grimy and dirty people. How ironic that of all things this is the feeling we are left with given how much time and energy we have put into making sure we never feel this way.
Anyway, progress is a slow process and when you do it right, you do it light. Certainly don't want to do this wrong and in turn make it a long suffering process.
The magnitude of this problem cannot be solved with extermination. As it was brought out, the dead bodies would just rot in the walls and anywhere else there was felled mice. We have decided to have the house condemned. We are fortunate that our home owners insurance is essentially going to cover the cost of a new home. We are very sad, obviously, but also relieved. The idea of moving back into a house with rotting mice invokes nothing but feelings of dread and doom. The cost of demolition and reconstruction might even exceed the cost of a new home. That was a determination made by our insurance agent. We are blessed to have the resources to make a transition like this possible much less fairly simple, though not without heavy hearts.
My wife and I pride ourselves on being clean people. Our home was always clean, tidy and in showroom form. I understand that being clean people doesn't make one(s) immune to an infestation, but all of this has left us feeling like grimy and dirty people. How ironic that of all things this is the feeling we are left with given how much time and energy we have put into making sure we never feel this way.
Anyway, progress is a slow process and when you do it right, you do it light. Certainly don't want to do this wrong and in turn make it a long suffering process.
