ZenFrost
07-23-2007, 06:13 PM
Okay, so I totally screamed when the mouse ran across my toes. Wanna hear the rest of the story?
I was in the pantry getting something to eat a few days ago and the little bugger stared up at me with those little beady eyes of his. So I set up a mousetrap and managed to seal the pantry shut so he couldn't get out. I was hoping that he'd go for the peanut butter. He did. In fact, he licked it all off the trap without springing it, and then got himself into a box of cookies. So today I decided I'd had enough of this little game of cat and mouse we were playing and changed the game to snake and mouse. I let loose my python in the pantry on the same shelf as the mouse and waited for nature to take its course. Apparantly, nature's course involved the snake getting so distracted by all these cool things to climb on that he didn't even notice the mouse. The mouse, who meanwhile thought it was best to jump off the shelf and run into the nearby bathroom. By this time, I had enlisted the help of my father on this little mouse hunt, which was quickly turning into a long ordeal.
So we put the python in the bathroom with the mouse. And again, even when the mouse walked on top of him more than once, he didn't notice it. Instead, while the snake was hanging out in the corner, my father was preventing the mouse from leaving by blocking the doorway and I was trying to catch the mouse under a box. After a good ten minutes of fruitless efforts, the mouse made another mad dash across the floor. One that happened to be in the way of my feet. I know it wasn't a very manly thing to do and really didn't help my male image, but I screamed and jumped up on the toilet seat.
After several more minutes of trying in vain to catch the bloody thing, I decided that maybe my other snake might be of more assistance. So I went and got the corn snake, I was hoping that if he was in the opposite corner of the python, he might just catch the mouse without attacking or getting attcked by the other snake. With second snake in hand, I went to find the mouse. And couldn't find it. The bathroom isn't particularly big and there weren't a lot of places for it to hide, so I figured it had managed to escape past my dad.
Until I saw it sitting on top of the python.
But then I noticed the mouse was in a weird position... Aha! The snake had caught it! Or had it? At closer inspection, the snake had somehow managed to pin the mouse against the wall, but didn't really have it in any sort of eating position. A few more minutes of me trying to figure out what to do and then the snake was busy eating his little snack. He'd managed to get it into position, squeeze the life out of it, and then eat it. All of this while he was in a very awkward position wrapped around a small metal shelving unit. By the time I put the other snake away the python had finished eating and was ready to go back in his cage.
The moral of the story is twofold:
1. Snakes make better mouse-catchers than mouse traps do.
2. Just because I scream like a girl because of a mouse doesn't mean I'm any less of a transman... or does it?
Well guys, did I totally waste you time? Or have any of you ever had a transman+mouse=eeeek! experience? Or are you mad because this thread's too much like the 'squashed a bug one'?
I was in the pantry getting something to eat a few days ago and the little bugger stared up at me with those little beady eyes of his. So I set up a mousetrap and managed to seal the pantry shut so he couldn't get out. I was hoping that he'd go for the peanut butter. He did. In fact, he licked it all off the trap without springing it, and then got himself into a box of cookies. So today I decided I'd had enough of this little game of cat and mouse we were playing and changed the game to snake and mouse. I let loose my python in the pantry on the same shelf as the mouse and waited for nature to take its course. Apparantly, nature's course involved the snake getting so distracted by all these cool things to climb on that he didn't even notice the mouse. The mouse, who meanwhile thought it was best to jump off the shelf and run into the nearby bathroom. By this time, I had enlisted the help of my father on this little mouse hunt, which was quickly turning into a long ordeal.
So we put the python in the bathroom with the mouse. And again, even when the mouse walked on top of him more than once, he didn't notice it. Instead, while the snake was hanging out in the corner, my father was preventing the mouse from leaving by blocking the doorway and I was trying to catch the mouse under a box. After a good ten minutes of fruitless efforts, the mouse made another mad dash across the floor. One that happened to be in the way of my feet. I know it wasn't a very manly thing to do and really didn't help my male image, but I screamed and jumped up on the toilet seat.
After several more minutes of trying in vain to catch the bloody thing, I decided that maybe my other snake might be of more assistance. So I went and got the corn snake, I was hoping that if he was in the opposite corner of the python, he might just catch the mouse without attacking or getting attcked by the other snake. With second snake in hand, I went to find the mouse. And couldn't find it. The bathroom isn't particularly big and there weren't a lot of places for it to hide, so I figured it had managed to escape past my dad.
Until I saw it sitting on top of the python.
But then I noticed the mouse was in a weird position... Aha! The snake had caught it! Or had it? At closer inspection, the snake had somehow managed to pin the mouse against the wall, but didn't really have it in any sort of eating position. A few more minutes of me trying to figure out what to do and then the snake was busy eating his little snack. He'd managed to get it into position, squeeze the life out of it, and then eat it. All of this while he was in a very awkward position wrapped around a small metal shelving unit. By the time I put the other snake away the python had finished eating and was ready to go back in his cage.
The moral of the story is twofold:
1. Snakes make better mouse-catchers than mouse traps do.
2. Just because I scream like a girl because of a mouse doesn't mean I'm any less of a transman... or does it?
Well guys, did I totally waste you time? Or have any of you ever had a transman+mouse=eeeek! experience? Or are you mad because this thread's too much like the 'squashed a bug one'?