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Hi Rosie,

I think there is something in the air! Yesterday we also saw a little mouse in our house which happened very rarely so far. Last time we experienced it when we moved in to our country-house. Some boxes with full of books were laid down in the outhouse for some months and some mice were brought in by them.
Back to the present pest, by this morning our battle was ended in our victory over the unasked guest. We used a third type of mouse trap which is actually a very adhesive glue on a piece of paper added to some nuts.
I think it is not too easy to find an 'animal-friendly' solution to this problem.
Lots of people from the big cities want to move to the countryside to be closer to the nature. So they should not be surprised if the nature is really close to them.
In some cases in point, my grandpa always said the the animals such as mice and ants were being here in the right place of our house much earlier.

My homework is: in a more informal way I would use:Hi/Hello as saluting, and Regards or Cheers at the end of my letter.

Have a nice evening!

Krisztina from Hungary

Hello Rosie,

First, thanks a lot for your corrections and your advice. It’s very useful for me.
Secondly, we live in the countryside, but we never had mouse in our house. We always had cats at home, it’s maybe the reason why.
Nevertheless, as we give some wheat to our fowls and ducks, we already found mice in the bags. My husband killed them with a fork.
Near our pond, deep in our field, we also discovered big holes probably made by rats. We gave them some specific poison to kill them. But the difficulty was to hide the substance to avoid that poultry and other animals or our neighbor’s dog eat it. Once, we used a lot of this substance to exterminate the rats. They were very tough.

Hope you will trap the mouse that lives in your home.

About the homework, I would say:

Hi Mouse,
Enter and make yourself at home. Feel free to have some of the peanut butter and cheese we have left for you. We promise that if you enter we won't hurt you. We will release you in a beautiful park - it has a nice café where I'm sure you'll find lots of food scraps.
See you later,
Bye
Ingrid

Have a nice day,
Ingrid from France

Hi Rosie,
At my parents place , mouse used to come in the night but not inside the home. Inside the home there will be other pests like gecko, cockroaches, mosquitoes. Outside the mouse used to mess the place by turning over the waste bin and by their droppings. Actually it was really a nuisance. I would say it is better to kill such pests which could be hazard our health.
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Hello invader, better meet me , Cheers.

Hi Rosie.

I think it is a difficult question. If I look at the dictionary ethic definition it says "a system of accepted beliefs which control behaviour, especially such a system based on morals". In this way I can say that it is ethical to kill these animals because, in general, it is a behaviour accepted by most society.

Moreover a short group of people will think that it is a horrible practice to take another life, no matter if they are animals or insects o whatever. For me, his people have strong arguments to belief in this way.

But sadly. we, the human being need to fight with other animals for our space, we need to kill other animal to eat, to dress, to medicine and it is ethical because the majority of people accept our behaviour, but yes, it is totally truth, it is horrible to do it.

Thank Rosie for your help.

Have a good day

Dear Little Mouse,

Why are you troubling me so much? You always keep running in the house and distract me whenever I am busy doing something important. I know you're hungry and you love peanut butter and cheese. See, I've made a beautiful house for you and you'll find plenty of your favourite foods inside. So, why to wait, get in and have all the fun. I assure you I'll not harm you in any way, instead I'll take you to a beautiful park with cafe, music and lots of food. Who knows you might find your soul mate there!

I can't wait to see you in this one room glass box. However, be careful while changing clothes, remember people who live in a glass house, do not change clothes with the lights on.

Bye,
Mouse Lover

P.S. Don't go near to the harmful trap unless you've a tough body like Arnold!

Hello little mouse,
We've been playing hide and seek but although it was so funny I'm afraid I'm going to change the game or at least the place where to play so, please get into the beautiful cage I put for you and please go out home.
Bye,
an almost cat

Hi Rosie,

It's very interesting blog to read. Your story about a mouse in your room reminded me of my own experiences.

When I was young, my family lived in a detached house. There were quite number of mice living in my house. We even could see them scurrying across the floor. It seemed that they were always busy looking for something to eat for their life. But the efforts to catch them were always annoying for us.

It was one eve of Chu Seok-kind of Korean thanksgiving day-. My mother made lots of foods for the holiday until late night and then she had a short break with leaving foods on the floor to let them chill. When she awoke from the short sleep, half of foods that she made all day disappeared. I do remember the night vividly, the sigh and the despair of my mother.

Killing those mice that stole all foods made by my mother for the special day is ethical? Humm...You gave me a very complicated question. I will think of it...

Here's my homework,

Hi Mouse,

Please enter and make yourself at home. Feel free to have some of the peanut butter and cheese we have left for you. We promise that if you enter we won't hurt you. We will release you in a beautiful park - it has a nice café where I'm sure you'll find lots of food scraps.

I hope to meet you soon.
Bye for now!

Not so dear Mickey,

A week has passed since I prepared you a harmless trap, with cheese and peanut butter, but you decided not eat anything; that's not so kind of you. I left you a very polite letter, but you decided not to read it. Do you know how much a 'humane' trap costs? More or less like 5 standards ones. You are very small, but you are not harmless, you can bring horrible diseases and you leave hundreds of tiny droppings around the house; you destroy all our food and run on the stuff we use to eat. I was wondering about the ethical problem of killing a small, cute, animal like you. The point is that you've been living with us for a while so I almost consider you a member of the family; or maybe I've seen too many cartoons in which mice and people live together loving each other. It's now clear that you are not a a friend and that, even though you are cute, you are not a Disney mouse.
I know! The problem is that you are smart. I don't want to kill a smart animal, because it means that it is closer to a human. No, again this isn't the point! I was thinking about all the dogs that are put down in the dog pounds, they are smarter than you and they are lovely. Sometimes, not very often, I eat meat; it is good, but to produce it, we must kill animals, and given that we want it to be cheap, we don't pay to those animals the respect they deserve. OK! Now it is clear, the problem is that it's OK for me to know that somebody kills animals, but that I'm not brave enough to do it by myself.
So, I'm sorry Micky, but I have to kill you! I'm going to leave many traps, all humane, also that ones that are not harmless. I will also leave some green food, there is a skull and two bones on it, you can't miss it!

I'm looking forward not to see you again!
Your flatmate.

Hello Rosie,

Even we try to convince Mr. and Mrs. Mouse to walk in our comfortable harmful or not harmful little trap house, it won't work. May be we should change the way we invite them as below:-

Hello Micky and Minnie,

We know that you feel tired running around our house and you spend so much energy to hide from us. Don't you think it will a better idea that both of us will take one day out, the day that you don't bite my wooden table or our clothes and for us for remuneration of your understanding, we have prepared a 5 stars room with all the comfortable and accommodation such as 3D TV, Single bed with Jagussy, so that you and Mrs. Mouse can spend an unforgottable lovely night together. Don't hesitate to pay a visit to the room, unless another couple will take it, due to our room is limitted and first come first serve.

Please also tell your friends (if any) about our services, we will have discount if you come by group

Unforgottable Paradise