{"id":663,"date":"2007-11-26T04:02:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/26\/pesky-rodent-am-i-crazy-for-feeling-horrible\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T04:02:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:02:22","slug":"pesky-rodent-am-i-crazy-for-feeling-horrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2007\/11\/26\/pesky-rodent-am-i-crazy-for-feeling-horrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesky Rodent &#8211; Am I Crazy for Feeling Horrible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/nepa\/dead_mouse01.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"Pesky Rodent\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p>\n<p>It has been a really bad year for mice. Well, good for them but bad for us up in the Poconos. We bought the &#8220;humane&#8221; traps but since we aren&#8217;t there as often as we would like, those traps seem worse since they are trapped in a plastic box without water for days on end until they die of starvation. We found one victim and I was so upset I tried to nurse it back to health but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/nepa\/mouse_nepa.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Pesky Rodent\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p>\n<p>The snap traps seem more humane since they usually die quickly. Can&#8217;t help feeling guilty about killing them. I justify it by their destruction of our food stores and the <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_qa3912\/is_200201\/ai_n9060725\" target=\"_blank\">disease risk<\/a> they pose since my immune system doesn&#8217;t need any further challenges. Don&#8217;t mind our bats since they eat mosquitos, but my matzo ball soup mix is verboten <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mickey_Mouse\" target=\"_blank\">Mickey!<\/a> Heard it was your birthday on November 18. Don&#8217;t be mad at me!  And don&#8217;t tell <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Topo_Gigio\" target=\"_blank\">Topo Gigio<\/a> either.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vecchieragazze.blog.kataweb.it\/files\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/03\/30\/topogigio_2.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"Pesky Rodent\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Frank H. Jump It has been a really bad year for mice. Well, good for them but bad for us up in the Poconos. We bought the &#8220;humane&#8221; traps but since we aren&#8217;t there as often as we would like, those traps seem worse since they are trapped in a plastic box without water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[997,1071,1313,1529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mickey-mouse","category-nepa","category-rodents","category-topo-gigio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}