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Step 4Catch And Release!
We release our mice on the runway. It's a festive occasion.
There's no reason for it to be so much fun. It just is. And it's always different.
Sir Heinrich races the mouse on motorcycle.
This mouse was unusually fast and motivated.
I think it had been eating health food in that bin all day.
Video shot by Instructables Matt.
There's no reason for it to be so much fun. It just is. And it's always different.
Sir Heinrich races the mouse on motorcycle.
This mouse was unusually fast and motivated.
I think it had been eating health food in that bin all day.
Video shot by Instructables Matt.
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We are humans - different from other animals - for the reason that we have a choice how to treat our prey.
Setting a mouse loose in a field or forest far enough from house is not hypocritical because cat might kill it anyway - the mouse has same chances that any other little animal in the wilderness. And it also had its chances of getting captured by cat while living in the house.
They do not choose the better way very often. Should I because of that fact go with the flow? Should I like others torture animals and never open my mouth about anyone else doing that?
Do you really think I am trying to fix my awfully bad karma with minor arguing? No, I live by rule, that I do things I want others to do. I make mistakes and try to do better next time, And I am not going to keep my opinion on what is mistake and what is not silently to myself.
And no, not all animals who have lived near people are totally helpless. Maybe a little untrained, but not 100% going to get eaten in next 5 minutes. Whatever its chance - better let someone hungry eat it than kill it for fun or just whitout no point.
Again-judging. Who are you to say that not killing the prey is "the right path?" anyone who knows anything about animals know this- the wolf has to eat too. But they also know that the wolf is sometimes not hungry, or that the wolf chooses a different, perhaps tastier or easier prey. Animals make choices all the time, but they don't waste time quantifying them into categories of "right" and "wrong." Because on the mouse's side, eating it would be bad, and leaving it would be good. Whereas from the wolf's perspective, eating it would be good, and leaving it would be starvation and possibly death.
And yeah, you are trying to fix your karma. Everybody has made some kind of mistake that haunts them. Perhaps you killed something or someone once, by accident or on purpose, and now wish to atone for this by stopping others from doing so. A noble sentiment, which leaves you on the surface and in your head a "good" person. But, honestly, it's much more likely you are trying to make up for the past, or to justify the present.
Finally, I don't care if you argue. I argue all the time. I'm jaded. I have a somewhat scathing outlook on the world. Just, while you're arguing, do so from a rational standpoint. Don't judge others, show them a different way. And don't think that your way is always the better way. And don't hold yourself above the rest of the world, because we all break the golden rule. Constantly. The two of us just have, just with this argument. The two of us are both hypocritical. I'm judging you right now while I'm telling you not to judge.
I agree with you on one point. People should act differently. You can't say better, because better means different things to everyone. But the world would be safer, at the very least, if people looked at things from the other side's point of view.
I have to admit that I can't understand the point of view of these guys with the motorcycle too well. Maybe I am starting to get Yours a bit better already, after lots of writing You have done. I am even starting to like You...
In debate class, they often have you take up the side you would normally disagree with, so that you can see the world through other's eyes. Let me just say this now- I would rather die than kill anyone or anything (aside from spiders and little bugs, as they are icky and kinda scare me). The last time I saw a mouse in my house, I bought humane nonlethal traps and tried to get the little guy before one of my four cats did. Unsuccessfully, but, hey, I was up against history's greatest mouse catchers.
I have to admit, I was wrong to say you did something wrong and are trying to make up for that. I simply forgot that there are still people who actually care about others.
If you feel you need to get rid of it permanently - get a proper killing trap, no need to suffocate it in the jar or make it panic on the endless paving. Even if they did not run over the mouse this time, it could have accidentally happened. If you bothered to capture it humanely then release it humanely without the circus.
We are humans - different from other animals - for the reason that we have a choice how to treat our prey. Those who torture animals become less human and even inferior to wild animals which do not have choice.
And as you are probably not eating that mouse - think again, you must be really desperately disturbed by that little being to kill it.
I didn't insult Your or my own cat. I dont ever judge animals.
And scaring isn't exactly torture. Although it is a complete waste of time, everybody forgets being scared. Nobody forgets physical pain. As long as they didn't actually hurt the thing, it cannot be defined as torture, as the effects are fleeting, evanescent. That's why people watch horror movies.
Also my knowledge and experience suggests that humans are only species on this planet who are able to destroy most of biological life, including themselves, on very large areas (and we are probably heading that way). I am not very optimistic about humans too by the way, I think possibly You might be arguing with me because You aren't. I see that power to destroy as responsibility. I think we must make rules for ourselves that are not derived from what a bored pack of wolves might do. Not because human was superior but because he's different. Like you can't play one sportsgame with rules of a totally other thing.
Sorry, I don't have a common experince with You what is torture and what isn't. I remember being scared and remember it as very unpleasant. I don't know why other people watch horror movies. On the other hand I don't remember any significant physical pain, maybe I haven't felt it. And on that personal experience I think animals hate to be scared as much as I do.
Reading ... because the title suggested something positive in the first half and I just did not get the other half as quickly, it was like "what?..", probably my fantasy does not go that violent way easily to get the sign "do not read".
Depending on how long lasting the feeling is, it is or isn't torture. For example, if all of a sudden, the mouse shivers for the rest of its life, that's torture. If it gets an adrenaline rush (do mice have adrenaline?) for a few minutes and then escapes and calms down, it isn't. I define torture on lasting effects. The worst pain I have ever felt was when my first real love broke up with me, and that left a lasting effect, so I would say it was torturous.
Chasing a mouse around with a motorbike = retarded
Chasing a mouse around with a motorbike = hilarious
the trap is a great idea but the thot of chasing a scared and confused anmial is SICK why wold someone do such a thing it is a living breathing anamil just like us thay dont have a consept of staing out of houses sheds ect thay just want food and a shelter.
PS TimAnderson just cuzz its called a pest or rodent dose not give you the right to toucher and kill an inasint creater how cold some one get enjoyment out of killing an simple and inasint anamle.
Chasing a mouse around with a motorbike=priceless