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There is, however, a risk of lockjaw if you got bitten by one. Or, perhaps, prodded one with a too-short stick to see if it was actually dead.... Yeah, not one of my brighter moments. And this was outside, too - there was really no reason for me not to be minding my own business. Stupid mouse seems to have a broken foot, to my untrained eye, which explains why it was still in the place I'd flung it long enough for me to stick it in a coffee can, chuck some french fries after it. If it starts frothing at the mouth or anything, or *I* do, I'll get somebody to kill it properly and check out its brains. But I'm pretty sure that, like the other mice in the area, it's not a rabies risk.
And unless somebody in the area is desperate to make a wild mouse with a broken foot (but probably not rabies!) a pet, I guarantee, I don't care enough to keep it alive. Thing *bit* me! (Mind, it was scared, but that's not the point)
And unless somebody in the area is desperate to make a wild mouse with a broken foot (but probably not rabies!) a pet, I guarantee, I don't care enough to keep it alive. Thing *bit* me! (Mind, it was scared, but that's not the point)
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Date: 2005-11-12 12:42 pm (UTC)Secondly, in order to contract rabies, the animal has to be bitten by another animal with rabies. Something like a mouse is so unlikely to survive a bite from a bigger animal like a cat or dog that chances of them being able to survive long enough to pass anything on to anyone are slim. This, coupled with the dry bite theory (which I personally believe is true, having been bitten by a few rats in my life) means you probably don't have to worry about rabies at least.
As for the mouse, thats a tricky one. My cat brings them in from time to time and I always release them and let nature take its course, but I've never had one with an obviously broken limb before. I guess if no one wants to keep it as a pet (which is probably a bad idea anyway) then it would be more humane to kill it, I just don't know what the most humane way to do that is.
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Date: 2005-11-12 03:39 pm (UTC)I haven't poked it with a stick, though, and don't intend to. I suspect the most humane method of making sure it's dead is the one suggested above - freeze it.
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Date: 2005-11-12 08:03 pm (UTC)If he's alive still, though, sticking him in a freezer is one of the most horrible ways you can kill an animal. Freezing to death is slow and excruciatingly painful.
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Date: 2005-11-12 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-12 09:29 pm (UTC)FREEZING
Hypothermia is neither short nor painless. Some time ago on the rats list, Brian Lee detailed an experience in which he almost died from exposure. He went through it step by step for us so we could all understand how inhumane this method truly is. Yes, in the end, a person or animal who has died from exposure appears to have died peacefully, but the steps leading up to that death, as described by Brian, are horrendously painful.
Think about how your bare hands begin to feel in the winter before they go numb. It is pretty painful. Imagine how you would feel if someone you knew, loved and trusted put you in a giant freezer, turned out the light, locked the door and went away. Imagine how terrified you would feel! What an agonizing and lengthy way to die. It is not my idea of humane, and that is exactly what your beloved pet would experience. Who could live with their conscience after using this method?
http://www.rmca.org/Articles/euthanasia.htm
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Date: 2005-11-12 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-12 08:01 pm (UTC)