Animal care taken to the extreme--just venting.

M1

This is just a vent.  It's been a beautiful snowy day here today.  My partner found a mouse in the chicken house--in a little front room where their food is stored in metal garbage cans.  I think the mice come in from pipes around the sink--no chicken house is vermin-proof.  Now she wants to go feed it because she doesn't want it to be cold or hungry.

I'm so over it:  that's the last thing I want is more vermin in the chicken house.  Should have kept my mouth shut though, now she's mad at me because I wouldn't help her.

I'm sick of this obsession.  Hoping the cats and chickens all die off fairly soon; I will not replace them.  And of course if she falls out there tromping around in the snow, I'm the one who will have to deal.

Like I said, just a vent!!

Stuck in the middle

Life does not begin at conception.  Life does not begin at birth.  Life begins when the kids leave home and the pets die.

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ButterflyWings

(((M1)))

And the jokes on this thread! You all are cracking me up

M1

exactly BW.  The absurdity!!  OMG such a waste of money and time.  Unfortunately she not quite far enough along for one of the fake cats, but I've got it filed away.....

Stuck in the middle

We had chicken for dinner last night.  Just saying.

CStrope

HaHa...this made me chuckle.  Since DH has been progressing, his obsession with animals of all kinds, especially our 2 dogs, have become the focus of everything.  I have to admit, I love and spoil our dogs too, but the emotional tie he seems to have with animals now is way way too much.  He cries if he sees a animal shelter commercial, cries if a bird hits our window, heck he even gets upset if there is a dead squirrel or skunk on the side of the road!  This is the same person that has never once cried for me, heck he didn't even cry when his parents died.  But see a dead bunny outside and its time for the tears to flow.

M1

I know Stuck, but we're both too chicken (pun intended) to knock 'em off.  We have an Egyptian contact who is happy to cull however, so that may be in order.   One of the three is not laying at all, so she's just a pet; the other two are still egg producers (though not in January).  The other option is just to let them out of the coop and the critters around here will get them in short order...big bobcat walked right by our security cameras the other night.  I don't know how the ducks don't get eaten all the time (though they have a little floating island).

We used to fish catfish out of our pond until the otters ate 'em all, and we would kill the catfish with a .22 pistol.  Seemed more humane to her than letting them suffocate.  

So you can see, this animal thing is longstanding.  Most of the time I can deal, but protecting the mice is just one step too far.  It's just caregiving overload.

Ed1937

We have a daughter who might do that. When she was a kid, going to school after a rain, she would pick up the worms from the sidewalk so the other kids didn't step on them.

Stuck in the middle

Years ago in the Readers' Digest:  Woman was buying mice at the pet store to feed their pet snake.  After she paid, she was handed a box of mice with tiny air holes and the printed message "Thank you for giving me a good home."