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Post by majorminor on Apr 22, 2015 7:59:18 GMT -5
It's 5:30 in the morning and you roll out of bed and stumble in the bathroom to pee. Light goes on one eye closed and one eye cracked open. You look down and half in the water of the toilet bowl is a live mouse staring back up at you. Do you:
A) don a pair of gloves and fish it out to be killed or live released in a neighbors ditch?
B) call Kona the wonder lab in for dispatch with extreme prejudice?
C) flush?
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Post by drlj on Apr 22, 2015 8:08:04 GMT -5
D)scream like a little girl and run from the bathroom?
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Post by Doug on Apr 22, 2015 8:13:00 GMT -5
Before you can make those decisions you have to check to see if it has red pants and yellow shoes.  |
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Post by dradtke on Apr 22, 2015 9:31:56 GMT -5
Flush.
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Post by epaul on Apr 22, 2015 9:37:01 GMT -5
Quickly construct a little raft out of toothpicks. Then spend half a day devising a relocation plan.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 22, 2015 9:51:44 GMT -5
When you are looking that helpless little thing in the eye it gets personal. What did you do?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 9:56:03 GMT -5
with the wave of a hand ...  |
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Post by Marshall on Apr 22, 2015 10:17:15 GMT -5
I'm sure I'd flush. But I'd feel guilty about it.
I know a guy that is almost blink without his glasses. He gets up in the middle of the night and thinks there's a big animal in the toilet. He flushes and gos back to bed. tells his wife about it. Later that morning she gets up and screams. There's a possum scrambling around in the bowl trying to get out. Seems it's pretty common that they'll be climbing on your roof and fall into the vent stack through the roof. They slide down until they find a lateral path. Then they crawl up until they find a big enough outlet to run for daylight; that being the toilet.
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Post by fauxmaha on Apr 22, 2015 10:27:55 GMT -5
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Post by majorminor on Apr 22, 2015 10:41:23 GMT -5
When you are looking that helpless little thing in the eye it gets personal. What did you do? See Jeff's post above. Exactly what I did. Bad ju ju though..... |
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Post by Lonnie on Apr 22, 2015 11:01:09 GMT -5
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 22, 2015 11:03:33 GMT -5
I would call Kona the wonder lab. Because I wouldn't be surprised at all that the mouse just might climb out of that flushing situation.
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Post by majorminor on Apr 22, 2015 11:12:35 GMT -5
I would call Kona the wonder lab. Because I wouldn't be surprised at all that the mouse just might climb out of that flushing situation. Well if he shows back up I'll let you know. My bigger fear after the fact is he found purchase somewhere along the way and is gnawing through some PVC somewhere. Bad ju ju. |
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Post by dradtke on Apr 22, 2015 11:23:28 GMT -5
I was going to say "Piss on it" but I thought that sounded mean. |
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Post by patrick on Apr 22, 2015 11:51:52 GMT -5
Flush. It's entirely possible he got there by climbing up out of the sewer system, sending him back won't hurt him.
A short water slide and then he ends up in a pipe with lots of air and lots of other places to go. Like your neighbors house.
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Post by millring on Apr 22, 2015 11:57:28 GMT -5
If you love him, give him wings.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 12:11:21 GMT -5
I was going to say "Piss on it" but I thought that sounded mean. You said it first, now I don't have to. |
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Post by millring on Apr 22, 2015 12:29:08 GMT -5
Sometimes when God closes a door, He opens a window.
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Post by martinfever on Apr 22, 2015 12:47:31 GMT -5
Freeda mouse.
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Post by patrick on Apr 22, 2015 14:13:13 GMT -5
This reminds me of a time when I was a post-doc. I was in the lab working with a bunch of other guys doing an experiment that involved injecting a mouse IV through the tail vein with a particular chemical, while keeping the mouse alive under inhalation anesthesia, and keeping it immobile in an NMR machine while we traced the metabolic activity of the probe. I'm working feverishly to keep this mouse breathing, when my wife calls from home because there is a mouse in the washing machine with a load of clothes and she doesn't know what to do about it. I couldn't handle two mouse emergencies at the same time, so I told her to just ignore it til I got home.
Hours later, I scooped it out of the machine and tossed it into the bushes. If it survives, it survives.
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