 ♥ First, I would just like to say that I do have a big heart towards animals. Everyone around me knows that. But now people think I've taken it too far....
For the past few months we have had a mouse in our house. I didn't want it there, but I refused to KILL it. It's not anything big...a little field mouse. Everyone kept telling me to use the little pellets, or the glue traps. But I wouldn't do it. First of all, those things could hurt my dogs, and I won't put them in danger. And Second....mice are living things...rodent or not...I won't kill them. I wanted to find the humane traps. Just catch them in a little box and let them go outside. But we couldn't find any.
Last night Melissa and I came home and I went into the kitchen. I heard a noise and I knew it was the mouse. The noise seemed to be coming from underneath the toaster oven. Now, on top of our toaster over we have a shelf with our spices on it. Melissa thought that we could just move the toaster over, catch the mouse and let it go. So she started pulling the toaster oven away from the wall, when she did the spices started to fall...the mouse got scared and tried to run. It didn't get far. One of the spices fell right on top of it. But that didn't kill the mouse. It sent it into what I thought to be a seizure. The mouse was twitching and jumping on it's back and it was bleeding from it's mouth. It calmed down after a few minutes and just twitched.
I was almost hysterical. I know...it was JUST a mouse. But to sit there knowing there was nothing you could do to help a living thing while it's suffering....it breaks my heart. I cried until I almost made myself sick. Melissa finally had to get my sister out of bed to handle it. She took it outside somewhere. She won't tell me exactly what she did with it. Which is probably good, b/c I would have been out in the below freezing weather burying it.
So..am I taking my big heart too far by crying over a mouse? I'm not sure...All I know is when it happened I felt like crying...so I did.
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Poor mousey. They should make more humane traps.. :/ 
=[ I would have cried too
