42 Replies to “Your Feel Good Moment Of The Day”

  1. Reminds me of the time they released a healed up otter on the lower mainland in British Columbia
    only to be quickly lunched by an orca…..

  4. Humane Guy, Yeah me too! One time I heard a noise at about 2.30 AM in the house, I got up and started checking the house, and found a cat in the house! No, I dunno how it got in, but I stupidly grabbed the cat with the intention of putting it outside. Of course, the cat, being terrified, launched an attack on my face! I hung on and got it out the front door, but my face the next day, ballooned up for about a week, and I needed antibiotics, for the large leaking abscess on my upper lip! No more Mr Nice Guy!

    1. Been there, did something like that… Tried to grab a cat to toss it out of the building I was working in, and it sank its teeth into my hand before escaping out the door. Ended up not only with a course of antibiotics, but taking a rabies series (the modern one, which isn’t the terrible ordeal like the old series).

  5. Ha…
    Cannot control nature!!

    My live trap is a metal cage to catch rodents (that includes squirrels ) that get too close to my garden. If only they would stay in the 100 acre bush surrounding us. But they don’t…and the cage mesh is large enough for my pellet gun to finish the task…resulting in small dead animals.

  6. A couple of years ago my area of town was over run with rats, fed up I decided to buy some traps and deal with them nicely. First rule of rat catching, drop them off at least four klicks from your house or they’ll hike back to your yard. The first five I dropped off at the grave yard a few minutes from my house, and they came right back. I did receive on very scary scary event, I had the rat in the trap and put said trap in a tote with a lid, go to the grave yard pulled out the tub and then the trap tilted the trap and the rat was not in it. Well on the drive home I saw a flash of fur and lost my shite, turns out it was my hair and not the rat. Scared me to death. All in all we trapped 15 that summer, then I got my hands on some nasty poison and gave up my humanity in favor of a ratless yard.

    1. Should’ve filled the tote with water and drown the rats while they were in your trap. Rats are vectors for disease and procreate like crazy. You can throw the carcass in the woods for the coyotes, lynx, crows, etc to eat.

  10. How did the Outlaw Josey Wales put it?

    “Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.”

  11. Turns out the guy wasn’t so humane after all. Mice spend nearly all their time in the grass, the wood pile, that little crack in your foundation. For a reason. This one knew its fate maybe two seconds before the talons struck.

  12. This reminds me of a story my father told. The neighbouring children at the cottage were feeding a chipmunk which had become very tame. The chipmunk was being fed on a picnic table by several young children when an owl quietly flew by and grabbed the rodent and flew off.

  15. Situations like those which are described here remind us of what the natural world is really like. Sadly, many of us have been conditioned by all sorts of TV documentaries that such things never occur.

  16. I can’t figure out why people release these rodents all your doing is making your problem someone else’s headache.

    1. Terry said, “I can’t figure out why people release these rodents….”

      No one can figure out bleeding heart do-gooders.

      Personally, if our kill traps fail to kill them, I flush them down the toilet.

      They go down real good.

    2. “…all your doing is making your problem someone else’s headache.”

      Isn’t it one of quintessential tenets of liberalism?

  17. Maybe don’t release it in the middle of a field with no cover next time…

  20. There’s a reason you never see a mouse run across an open field. What an idiot.

  21. As I have been saying for lo these many years, if you want to save the animals, the first thing you have to do is get the animals in on the plot. Before that, talking to me is a waste of both of our time.

  23. Came across a silver-gray squirrel on my long driveway as I was driving out. Instead of heading to the side and back into the woods, the stupid squirrel loped down the driveway as I drove slowly some 20 yards behind. The squirrel disappeared around a bend in the driveway, and when I got there about 15 seconds later, that squirrel had become lunch for a nice big Coopers Hawk.

  24. How nice of him to feed the birds.

    I’m sure there will be someone calling to report him for doing so without a permit on De Blasio’s snitch line.

  25. L-That sure beats feeding pigeons at the park. It is much more sporting.

    What odds will you give me the hawk, on the mouse ? Lay your money down.

  26. Mice? Nothing beats the good ol’ Victory spring loaded trap. Just drop the carcass in the green bin.

  27. ‘Corner Gas’ episode ending with Davis & Oscar … “Squeeky” and “Hootie”!

  28. Reminds of a wedding I attended years ago. The bride’s crazy mother wanted them to release doves after the ceremony outside the church. So we all march out into the drizzle where someone opens this box with two white pigeons inside. After a couple of kicks to the box, one finally scampers out into the rain and runs under a parked car. The other flies about 60′ straight up before POW a peregrine falcon hits it. It spirals downward, the falcon curls back and catches it and flies away.

    Bride’s mom was in tears, everyone else thought it was awesome. Because it was. BTW they are still happily married so probably a good luck thing as well.

  29. I expelled a frog from our caged pool area…he enjoyed about 15 seconds of freedom before the hawk grabbed it’s meal

  31. A metaphor for work pre-covid. Now, rather than the commute and running around at quitting time, you shelter in place with the bird.

  32. Yup.
    Perfectly encapsulates the “Save the wildlife” Wankers.
    The idiocy of Gang Green has spread across the western world, could be more proof that insanity is contageous.

  33. Several of the twitter commenters have pointed out that the handler wore a falconer’s glove. If so, and especially if the bird was a falcon; then this was, in all likelihood, a setup… Yes, I know, a shocking concept for the internet, but there you go. Good riddance anyway, mouse; hate vermin… Plenty more where you came from.

  34. If you can’t stomach a real trap, get a galvanized pail of water, half full. Run a stick up over the side and dangle a piece of cheese on a thread over the water. Never fails. Silent too. Plop, splishy splash. Scoop the bodies (yes that many) out in the AM. When I worked in the bush, we numbered our traps in the cook shack and bet on who’d get the first one at night. Turned off the lights and waited, while shuffling the deck for the evening crib game. Squeamish? Jeebus, you like mouse chewed bread, apples? In Montreal (a sea port full of rats) they’d eat the coverings off the electric service and burn your house down, with you and your kids in it. Tronna has ’em, too. Check the garbage bins out back of Steinberg’s.
    We had an infestation of the mice/vole variety one year in Calgary. My wife will jump up off the floor when she sees one. Out with the traps and then look for entrance holes. Came in through the garage, chewed through the gypsum board and down to the basement in the pink stuff. I sleep downstairs, so I can hear ’em…..snap. Snappity snap. I lost count. Traps are in the garage at all times. Peanut butter works best. Don’t bother with the bait boxes , or fancy traps. As Mike says above……..Victory only. You can hair trigger your Victory traps to be dangerous to yourself. Gets them every time. Disinfect with bleach, reuse. I chuck the bodies over the fence to the park. Magpies clean ’em up.

  35. Mice are disgusting creatures. We kill them wherever they’re found but they do provide food for the animals higher up the food chain. Coyotes and foxes will eat an amazing pile of them as do ravens. A raven can’t pick them like that bird but will land and then get them. When we throw out dead things and kitchen scraps it is fun to watch the birds; ravens get first pick, then the crows, and then the magpies get what remains.

  36. Well that was fun.

    I found the downside of a bigger live trap to keep rabbits out of the vegetables. It was just the right size to catch a live skunk.

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