re: #468 The Shadow Do

OK, this is tough. My wife just went to the garage on her way to work. “OMG something is out here!”
I go out to investigate and sure enough there is a rodent stuck to a sticky pad I had put out months ago - thrashing about until I approach, and then it goes still.
“It’s nothing honey”
She drives away, I get a flashlight to see just what is what. There is a smallish roof rat? stuck by its front paws to the pad. Shit. It looked up at me. I feel really rotten. I think I will go have a drink or something. Please die fast Mr. Rat.

Man up. At this point the only honorable thing is a mercy killing. Try a shovel, if you don’t own a .22.

You are the one who put out the sticky pad - one of the nastiest ways ever devised for killing pests. Imagine your neighbor who was afraid of burglars put out a human-sized sticky pad and you got caught in it for going over to borrow a cup of flour.

Imagine if he looked down on you with pseudo-pity and then walked away.

Sometimes the animals thrash themselves to death. Sometimes they die of starvation. Sometimes in pure physical terror they gnaw their own paws off in a vain attempt to escape. If the attempt, against all odds, is not vain, they crawl off on what’s left of their limbs to die of sepsis.

Do it, and come back and tell us you did. Then never put down those hideous traps again, and maybe I’ll talk to you in future.