Afriad of mice/rats....?

Even though you like Secret o NIMH, do you have a fear of mice and rats?

To be honest, for me, I have a little fear, if the mouse just roams around my house and pops out of nowhere across the room I'm still in. :lol:

What an intriguing question to post :!:

Personaly I do not feel any fear regarding any animal as I tend to get along with MOST of them anyway. I think people sometimes confuse fear with caution.

I even had a pet rat called Splinter a few years ago, whoam I loved. However, as is the case when you are young I slowly lost interest in the little guy :( and it took me 3 whole years to notice that he was dead :!:

L8tr!

Jam-

I actually think mice and rats are cute. Call me weird if you want, but I think watching SoN for the past year may have contributed to it. I'm even seriously considering getting a pet rat. But I'll have to wait till my two cats kick the bucket first. Even then, I also have my parents to convince, which will take nothing short of a miracle. I'm probably one of the few people on earth who actually like mice and rats.

Now if a wild mouse or rat popped out and ran across the room, that would startle me for a second, but once I knew it was, a mouse or a rat it was OK to me but not my mom, just seeing something dart out, and seeing it out of the corners of your eyes would scare anyone, until you knew what it was. :shock:

I had lots of mice and hamsters as pets, no rats yet.

I had lots of mice and hamsters as pets, no rats yet.

I had a Guinea pig and two hamsters before.

I love mice and rats! Possibly because I saw Secret of NIMH at such a young age...? I've had both as pets, though more rats than mice. They don't scare me at all, although I wouldn't want wild ones in the house because they chew things up. But I hate when people poison or trap them, it's so cruel :( They got into our garage once, chewed a hole through the wall and through the back of a cabinet, and apparently nested in the cabinet for a while! We didn't put traps out or anything, we just cleaned out the garage and they left on their own. Haha..you know, I bet the rats didn't need Jonathan Brisby to open that grating, they could've chewed right through it! XD

I'm not particularly afraid of either mice or rats, but I'm not fond of rats. Mice are cute, but rats...nah, not so much. I think it's their big, nasty-looking, furless tails that I don't like. And yes, I know, mice don't have fur on their tails, either, but their tails aren't anywhere near as big as those of rats, so that somehow makes it okay for me.

Yeah, I'm weird, I know. Deal with it. :P

On an interesting side note, the biology department here at Hope College has a small menagerie of rodents, and one of the rats recently gave birth to a litter of maybe 10. (It's hard to tell, 'cause the little fuzzballs are never still--except when sleeping in a ball, and then it's hard to tell where one ritten ends and another begins. :lol: )

~Kieran

I'm generally not afraid of either rats or mice, though like Whiskers I can be momentarily startled by one popping out from a corner unexpectedly. As a kid, me and my two sisters had gerbils which we played with quite often. It was my mother suprisingly enough who was responsible for introducing us to the little furballs which as you know are roughly halfway between a rat and a mouse in size. My late grandmother was the only person that I can think of that was deathly afraid of them or anything mouselike for that matter.

However, as is the case when you are young I slowly lost interest in the little guy :( and it took me 3 whole years to notice that he was dead :!:

Ouch....

I even had a pet rat called Splinter a few years ago, whoam I loved. However, as is the case when you are young I slowly lost interest in the little guy :( and it took me 3 whole years to notice that he was dead :!:
Jam-

You must be very ignorant or totally blind to take that long to notice Splinter was dead. Surely the smell would have tipped you off after the first couple months.

I even had a pet rat called Splinter a few years ago, whoam I loved. However, as is the case when you are young I slowly lost interest in the little guy :( and it took me 3 whole years to notice that he was dead :!:

I bet you were a TMNT fan weren't ya.

Anyway I agree with the others. How didn't you know he was dead? After 3 years wouldn't he stunk up your room..

I even had a pet rat called Splinter a few years ago, whoam I loved. However, as is the case when you are young I slowly lost interest in the little guy :( and it took me 3 whole years to notice that he was dead :!:

I bet you were a TMNT fan weren't ya.

Anyway I agree with the others. How didn't you know he was dead? After 3 years wouldn't he stunk up your room..

how can it take three years for you to notice your pets dead and do you not have a sense of smell? uh jayn whats tmnt

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.. Their teacher was a rat named splinter..

Well for me, where I'm currently working, mice are a constant occurrence.

I'm currently working at a recycle place sort plastic (don't ask!) and the plastic 'product' to be sorted comes by on a conveyer belt. Today I was minding my own business and looked down at my hand and fat old field mouse was trying to hide inside my glove. It startled me at first, then I gently took the fat thing 20 feet from the building and set it free.

However most of the time, the mice that come through the line are already deceased. We are encouraged not t touch them (and for good reason, the deceased mice seem are always deer mice!).

For you non-Canadians here, it'll surprise you to know that the province of Alberta (in which I live btw) has had the status of being rat free since the early 1950's to the present date. For this reason pet rats are extremely rare in Alberta. I owned several generations of gerbils, but could not get one single pet rat. Gerbils are fun to keep and when I was a younger more devilish kinda boy, I would set a gerbil or two free in my younger sisters bedrooms for kicks. My sisters never killed them, but it was a riot to see them screaming running form their rooms.

Oh you work in a recycling plant.. That's cool..

Any job where I am not designing graphics is not cool in my terms. The people there are still ok though. Their a pretty laid back bunch of coworkers.

Aside from picking plastic, tin and aluminum off of the line the pay is good.

You can't be picky with jobs, I myself push carts for BJs..

BJ's? Is that like wal-mart?

Well anyway, yesterday was our last day before we got the weekend off and 3 of us had to work outside in the yard cleaning it up. There was cardboard everywhere. While I was picking some cardboard up off the ground, I uncovered a family of mice. luckily there was a ice-cream pale near by and put all the baby mice in it. I didn't expect the mother mouse to stick around, but she did, so I caught her and put her in the pale with the baby mice. After work, I walked over to the creek bed thats close to the recycle plant and let them go free near a followed out tree trunk. Thats what seperates me from my co-workers, they all hate the mice that infest the recycling plant, but when I find 'em, I let them go far away from the recycle plant. :)

Bravo Victor, I love hearing stories like that,
At my job we had a -60 turbine generator come in off the flightline for repairs, as I made a last check on the oil level, then I saw something under the plenum, it look like a nest, I pulled the nest out from under it and there were three baby mice there, I told my partner not to fire it up yet, (The -60 is a generator that runs on a jet engine and is very loud and the temp can get over 600 degrees F), luckly my partner nabbed the mama mouse coming out the other side of the unit.
We put them in our tool box, when we got back to the shop we put mama and babies in a neat and quite place, the next day they where gone, I hope that mama mouse has had with us and moved on, 'with babies in tow".
Out here in the Mojave desert I find mostly snakes and yuc like that in our equipment, but time to time I get to help the mieces to pieces, 'Mr Jinks', :) .

Well BJs is more like a Sam's club where you can buy things in bulk.. Anyway I am in the parking lot gathering the carts and putting them by the door..

Oh yeah, wal-mart would have called your position "store standards".

Well I'm not sure what they call my position but they often call me the "Cart man" or the Cart guy"..

The thing about wal-mart was the mice and the pets department. There was always spillage of dog food and similar things like bird seed from time to time. This spillage would end up under the shelving units and guess what? Mice were eating it. The mice would scare the crap out of three former co-workers like clock work. When ever there was a dog food bag ripped open, the mice were there with in 30 seconds to a minute.

God I hate Wal-Mart, the people there won't do anything and if ya ask for help you just get blabing from a passing clerk..

The thing about wal-mart was the mice and the pets department. There was always spillage of dog food and similar things like bird seed from time to time. This spillage would end up under the shelving units and guess what? Mice were eating it. The mice would scare the crap out of three former co-workers like clock work. When ever there was a dog food bag ripped open, the mice were there with in 30 seconds to a minute.

Where I work, mice are not the poblem, when I get there and pick up my work truck and drive to our shop at 4;30 AM, Rabbits, cottontails and Jacks just tons of the little guys, so if you are a "Watership Down" fan, this is the job to have :lol: .

Really, where do you work Whiskers

God I hate Wal-Mart, the people there won't do anything and if ya ask for help you just get blabing from a passing clerk..

I know that WalliMart sucks but they sure have low prices.

I just like the entertainment section of Wal-Mart. There is a video on the web called Big Box Mart that roughly describes how the U.S. works with regards to stores like Wal-Mart, Target, etc.

Last I checked, it was on http://www.jibjab.com

Also our local grosery store had closed and we now need to go to Food Lion and they also suck real bad..

Yeah, I had pulled off a full night of worthless cleaning at wal-mart and when I got home, a friend emailed me a link to the Big Box Mart video. I laughed my ass off for hours!

What's the link to the Big box mart..

http://www.jibjab.com/[]http://www.jibjab.com/(may contain other material that could be offensive to some, warning issued)

You know that is funny..