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Eeee! Don't stomp on it!

I don't approve of burning the mouse either, but at least it got revenge.

That's, ladies and gentlemen, is karma at its best.

I feel bad for the man's family but, you get what you deserve and he shouldn't of burnt that poor mouse.

Exactly what I was thinking ;P

I think the guy's learnt not to throw mice in the fire anymore, though..

I'm possibly the only person whose not overly worried about the mouses life. Mice reproduce. Mice like to do so in houses. Mice carry disease. I'd rather not have them in my house.

Ah well. I feel badly that sometimes they die though. Although on occasions, it's unavoidable. It's not really the mouses fault we encroached on their territory and started taking over from them... thereby rendering part of where they lived useless. But to be honest, I think as species go; the common housemouse and deer mouse are doing pretty darn good for themselves all things considered. (Mice are like tiny indoor coyotes, they scavange the cubboards, poop where they want, and mark their territory with smelly glee. Silly little blighters.)

And on that note before anyone jumps on me for saying I don't care about the mouse, I don't think this guy did the right thing in doing what he did, and no i'd never toss a live mouse into a fire (I feel bad when my lumbering dogs manage to kill a mouse, I look at it and go "nooo... Matthias..." stupid Redwall).

I feel the same way as you do. I don't agree that throwing it into a fire was that great of an idea or even a humane way to kill it, but I'm not going to worry when I see a dead mouse and I'm not going to suggest that people throw away their mouse traps and whatnot and "Save teh mousiez!" They breed faster than most can think about it.

I find the situation hilarious not because of what the man did, but because he got paid back like he thought he never would.

My house used to have a bad mouse problem. Luckly, poison took care of that, but I still feel bad for the poor mice. I remember catching them in my garbage can. I would never kill them. I took it out back and set it free. I don't mind seeing them dead, especially after one got stuck in my fridge's fan and burnt out the engine. I would rather see the mouse get set free in the wild though.

Odds are if you simply set them free outback, they just went strait back into your house. Mice aren't as dumb as you think; and the only way humane trapping actually works to get rid of mice from a indoor situation is to take them at LEAST a few miles away; if not farther. (I prefer farther).
I've seen some pretty weird things with mice though. The oddest was the mouse we found ALIVE (lets repeat, ALIVE) in my Camps oven grease trap. My god. It was disgusting. We couldn't just let the little thing go, so we cleaned it carefully with some kitten shampoo and rinsed it, let it dry in a grain bucket and then sent it on it's way. The poor thing was so bedraggled.

... and then we threw out the oven. Heh. Ew. Plus like the day before we'd found a mouse nest right in the oven but we only realised (it was the secondary oven) cause we kinda cooked them by accident. I wasn't there thankfully, I was outside doing my job, but I smelt the aftermath. *shudder*

I'm not a big fan of killing mice either but the fact is that setting them free outside doesn't really help - given the choice of a scratchy field or a nice warm house I know what I'd pick ^^

I'll just need to hope when I get my own house that I pick a cat that's as good a mouser as my cat at my parents house - the whole street is practically mouse free =D

So my understanding of hummanity takes another dive.

Its okay to be cruel to animals... Solong as it burns your hosue down.
Interesting.

I think the guy did the right thing... you can either kill the mouse now (in a moderately humane way-- as opposed to feeding it one of those poisons that take several hours to kill it) or risk getting hantavirus, or some other disease that is exclusively spread by mice and rats. We *used* to have a rat problem in our attic...