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Grex Scruples Item 80: The hurt mouse
Entered by popcorn on Sat Oct 8 19:54:17 UTC 1994:

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#1 of 16 by carson on Sat Oct 8 22:42:30 1994:

I think I'd do nothing out of sheer inability to deal with
conflicting emotions.

#2 of 16 by popcorn on Sun Oct 9 01:11:44 1994:

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#3 of 16 by carson on Sun Oct 9 12:58:32 1994:

actually, I think that'd mean I'd have a mousetrap with a dying mouse in it.

#4 of 16 by zook on Sun Oct 9 22:16:22 1994:

Not a fair question... I don't like mice.

I doubt this mouse could survive on its own, even if you took him
to the vet.  So, what you are really talking about is whether you
should adopt the mouse (feed and shelter it), kill it outright, or
let it die on its own.

#5 of 16 by popcorn on Mon Oct 10 04:18:10 1994:

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#6 of 16 by carson on Mon Oct 10 11:34:32 1994:

I guess that's true. I'd have a boxed, injured, starving, dying mouse,
then. ;)

#7 of 16 by zook on Mon Oct 10 13:29:13 1994:

I guess, since I'm not a mouse person, that I would not keep it.  That
being the case, I think the more honest approach would be euthanasia.
I suppose the other option is to give it to a friend who might take
care of it.

#8 of 16 by popcorn on Mon Oct 10 13:37:55 1994:

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#9 of 16 by brighn on Tue Oct 11 07:17:34 1994:

#4  -- Painfully true.  If I had the facilities, I would keep the 
mouse.  Otherwise, I would kill the mouse by dropping a sizeable 
weight on the box.  Disgusting, I know, but fast and (hopefully)
painless.
Bye, bye, Mickey.

#10 of 16 by omni on Tue Oct 11 17:12:56 1994:

 I would take the mouse to the vet and ask his to do what was appropriate.

#11 of 16 by cyberpnk on Tue Oct 11 19:26:20 1994:

I'd kill the poor mouse, as painlessly as possible. I was in a similar
situation about 2 months ago; One of my cats had kittens, and one of them had a
lung infection that spread to the CNS. The way it was going it wouldn't have
lived more that about 6  hours, so my wife let me take it outside to snap its
neck. I found that i couldn't do it, so i placed the kitten in the kiddie pool
while i went to dig the grave. The way the kitten was breathing, it took it all
of about 5 seconds to die.  I felt miserable about it for days afterward...

#12 of 16 by jerryb on Fri Oct 21 02:09:28 1994:

(Could someone tell me wwhat just happened.  My screen froze, and I was
"beeped". could to heal the mouse.

#13 of 16 by popcorn on Sun Oct 23 02:46:17 1994:

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#14 of 16 by jerryb on Wed Oct 26 04:03:18 1994:

I think I recall saying that if I could I'd take the animal to the Huron Valley
Humane Society.  My daughter worked there as a volunteer several years ago, and
they do an outstanding job of saving animals.  If that option were not possible
I'd do what I could to save the mouse.

#15 of 16 by popcorn on Fri Oct 28 23:35:48 1994:

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#16 of 16 by ewhisam on Thu Dec 28 03:10:04 1995:

Euthanasia by cervical fracture or ethyl acetate inhalation or somlethal
pentobarbitol

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