humane lee

in our little house,
lives a little mouse.
smaller than my pets,
wild-eyed my mother gets.
"go buy the sticky pads
the 99 cent store has!!!"
but it seems a bit insane
and deceitfully inhumane.
therefore i shall proclaim
a homemade trap will gain
a new pet mouse for jane!
(f.y.i. my name is not jane)

it feels kind of weird and wrong to catch these wild mice with sticky traps... so i have decided to try and catch them the humane trap way. my mom won't let me keep them as pets though. she suspects the wild mice have diseases and fleases. for the sake of my healthy pet mice, i must concur...

when i think about it, this mouse business reminds me of birth and providence. just like us, the family you are born into determines who you are. life is harsh and unfair for the mouse who is born to lowly serf mice parents to live a dirty, scoundrel life and die a sad sticky death. those lucky ones born within the confines of a petco cage have the potential to live as kings....but then again, my mice are harvested to be food for pet snakes... so i guess just being born a mouse sucks.