I Just Killed Mouse with Bare Hands ... Now What?

06/23/18

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I think it’s the liver that my cat always leaves. Don’t eat that and you should be OK.

[bigbob]

My cats say you’re doing it wrong. First you’re supposed to play with it for an hour or two, racing all around the house playing the Home Version of “Catch and Release” and then you eventually break the toy and deposit the pieces where they are most apt to be stepped on with a bare foot.

There are rules to the Game of Mouse, you know ;-)

[Kickass Conservative]

Sometimes a Mouse is just a Mouse.

[volunbeer]

I’m impressed. I would head down to the local courthouse and register those deadly hands immediately.

[1_Inch_Group]

No. Your cat is leaving the most important part for you to consume.

What is wrong with you?

First cat?

[ConorMacNessa]

If your hand offends you, cut it off!

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

[meadsjn]

I immediately squeezed it "to death" and threw it outside the garage, It was still squirming on the pavement.

It's customary to take it to your owner, and drop it at his/her feet (still squirming). They will open a can of liver pate for you.

[Grimmy]

Since you didn’t get bit, you probably don’t need to worry about anything...

except, maybe, fleas.

Mice have fleas. Depending on where you’re at, fleas can carry bubonic plague and other fun diseases.

Might be a good idea to flea bomb the trunk of your car.

[PghBaldy]

I suppose if astringent don’t burn, that might mean your skin was not broken?

[blackdog]

I once had a Citation Jet I had to emergency land because mice built a nest in the landing gear well.

I also had an airplane I kept tied down on my grass runway. If I went a few weeks without flying it I would have to burn the mice nests out of the muffler heater shrouds before taking to the air.

Moth balls keep them out.

[LeoTDB69]

Have a raccoon that keeps coming around. Should I try that with it?

[TChad]

Unless the mouse bit you, and/or there is a break in your skin where you touched the mouse, I wouldn't worry about it.

I might be paranoid enough to wash my hands in Betadine (povidone-iodine solution) but that is almost certainly not necessary. A good washing with soap should suffice, and isopropyl alcohol won't hurt.

[jz638]

Did it bite you? If yes, you now have Ebola and only moments to live. Write a letter to your next of kin... but keep it brief,impending death and all.

Seriously though, if you washed your hands and didn’t have blood to blood contact with the animal, you probably just got your hands dirty. Happens to a lot of people, surprise mouse stompings or smooshings are quite normal, if a little traumatic for the first time practitioner. Try to come to terms with taking an animal’s life by remembering that tge world is not running out of field mice and also that the mouse would have killed you and everyone you care about if it had the ability.

[BunnySlippers]

I got a really big shard of glass in my foot one afternoon.
I went to bed and waited until 3 AM in the morning. I then went to Cedars Sinai, where all my docs are at the hour. The wait is almost always a 6 hour minimum ... I walked right in. They told me I was fortunate it happened so late at night. Went in, saw doctor after 10 minutes, got tetanus shot and he removed the shard, bandaged and off I went.

If you can go to emergency at around 3AM, do so.

[AndrewB]

Well, first of all, I’ve never seen a mouse with hands - bare or otherwise. You should donate it to a museum.

[doorgunner69]

Many, many moons ago, I was living in a bunker with a large ammo can for trash outside. Mostly C-Rats cans.

Damn rats used to like to get in there and rattle around. Screwed up getting to sleep.

One night while awake writing a letter, got a .45 and flashlight to go dispense justice.

Flick on the light to see a very large rat staring up at me. Fired two or three times at no more than 3 feet. Clean misses. Got him with the last shot.

Bunker mate came out with "WTF??" Same bastard that ruined my hearing shooting his M-16 at rats INSIDE the bunker.

[1_Inch_Group]

Ah.

See?

That’s a cat owner, right there.

Hate cats. Except one exceptionally cool cat by the name of Taz. He’d smoke pot with me in my car late at night on the driveway. No forced stuff. He’d show up....listen to Art Bell with me for a while and catch a heat change....then go off to do cat things.

Oh....my neighbor was so sorry when they ran that little fuc#er over.

They moved out shortly after.

Hmm. Apparently things went on at night they did not like after that.

[exDemMom]

I hope the mouse did not have hantavirus. Since hanta is spread through aerosols from mouse urine and droppings, it could infect your entire car. If your area is not endemic for hanta, that should not be a concern.

[Hugin]

If your lymph nodes swell up and your skin turns blotchy red, you’ve got Bubonic plague. Otherwise I wouldn’t worry.

[bluejean]

“it costed well over a thousand to have the dash removed and cleaned out”

So that explains the murderous rage - using your bare hands and all. I couldn’t have done that. Gloves or a bag over your hand next time will spare you all the worry.