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Does enjoying this make me a bad person?
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As many of you know I live in a room I rent from a live-in landlady and we've been infested with mice for a few months now. It is gross. Anyway today at last there was one caught in the mouse trap just next to my bed when I got up, I wasn't sure what to do with it so I left it there until this afternoon. Anyway, I've just finished cutting the little bastard into lots of pieces using my landlady's kitchen knives, I stabbed it lots of times first and then hacked away at it trying to get rid of some of my internal rage. It was quite therapeautic really although now my bedroom absolutely stinks. Does this make me a bad person? I took lots of photos of the various stages of the mousey blood bath too although just crappy phone pics as my digital camera was out of batteries.
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I don't have the wire thingy that gets them from my phone to a computer :grump:
I think some of the users here might not like photos of blood and stuff, I would guess it's against the rules to post it here? But anyway that's academic as I don't have anyway to upload them.
I've been fantasising about this for ages, it felt so good to finally catch one! I want to catch more now...
It doesn't make you a bad person, although I can imagine there will be people offended by this. But. the main issue here is actually hygiene - it's worrying that you've used kitchen knives to do this, and if there's a smell of a rotting animal in your room, then it's a really bad sign and you're really putting your health at risk. It's really important that you make sure you clean the knives absolutely thoroughly and any other debris.
Also, it's not a good idea to get into a habit of this. I'm trying to think of some other ways that you can let out some of this internal rage that won't put your health in danger. :chin:
I've opened my bedroom window to try to get rid of the smell and I think I need to take a shower befoe she gets back from work incase there is blood on me or something that I haven't noticed.
Granted, some people enjoy eating meat, but those who farm animals for meat rarely kill them in a pleasurable frenzy.
I've killed animals that my cats have brought in 3/4 dead before, but I didn't take pleasure from it and I did it as quickly as possible to reduce the suffering.
Mice constantly urinate, and they carry nasty diseases, so yes stabbing a wild mouse is worse than cutting up a piece of chicken. And a rinse will do bugger in terms of killing any germs.
I didn't kill the mouse in a pleasured frenzy, it went into a mouse trap that has been there for weeks and died while I was asleep. I took just messed about with something that's already dead.
KoG, I remember when I was at school I wasn't allowed to disect a rat (because I wasn't doing a-level biology) but one of the girls who was allowed to had a pregnant female, they were all mean to be male rats though. If it had been pregnant then it would represent killing more mice too. We've got poison down and we've had loads of visits from pest control but they just won't go away. One of them ran across me in bed whilst I was asleep a couple of weeks ago, I woke with it on my pillow and they crap everywhere.
In answer to the initial question - no, it doesn't make you a bad person so to speak, but this is an incredibly upsetting and disturbing thing to read, as is the rest of it.
Eating any future mice you find in mouse traps is not something I'd recommend as they are potentially riddled with disease and at best it would be very unhygienic and dubious in terms of your health. Also, I think you should attempt to sterilise the knives in a better way than rinsing them. That's really unsafe, regardless of whether they belong to you or your landlady.
:yes: absolutely. Please do this immediately, it's really important.
I once had a job serving food and I had to pull chicken skin off the meat in a commercial kitchen. And Iworked on the Sainsbury's deli too a few years back. Meaty grossness.
The kitchen is already covered in mouse poo and wee all over the work tops anyway so we must have eaten a fair bit of it by now anyway but eating mouse poo and wee is nicer than eating meaty flesh.
I've so paranoid at the moment, I hope that I don't think she can read my mind later on when she comes home, that'll freak me out.
I've got group therapy tomorrow morning. I've just been having a bad week. I usually only do this so of thing to my own body though, not that it feels like it's my own but it is. My one-to-one therapist was off last week due to illness so I've been way more paranoid than usual.
Yeah it's how lots of people deal with it I think. When you are angry even at an entirely different person I show my anger by inflicting it on myself. I think what you are doing is harmless to the mouse as it is already dead but I wonder as a veggie and just regular person really whether you would feel guilty about this at some point in the future. If your one to one therapist is back would you be able to speak to them about this?
I used to take great pleasure in shooting them as a kid, but now my dog pretty much deals with them.
I don't think it's a bad thing to take pleasure from the relief of killing the little bastards. I never hacked them up in a jack the ripper type manner though.
That's rich coming from someone like you :yeees:
Easy, let's not get personal. I think it's quite understandable that some people would be disturbed by it and some questioning is perfectly valid to be honest - regardless of background/history etc.
Someone like me? Interesting.
I wasn't being rude to you, I was saying what I thought, and that you wasn't a bad person so there was no need for such a comment. If you would rather I said you was a psychopathic freak that has just done something completely sickening then fair enough, but I didn't.
It's just a case of taking frustrations out on an already dead vermin. I think quite understandable.
Probably not.