Reply #47: actually it's not [View All]

in my nature at all to want to see any animal suffer...quite the contrary in fact. Please see my "Update" post above.

And as I said in another post, this really was a no win situation any way you looked at it. I did try to catch the mouse, and had I been successful, I would have had to release him someplace far away from the house, out into a foot of snow in zero degree weather. So he probably would have suffered til he froze to death had I been able to do that. We used humane live traps in our old apartment (which was before we had this kitty who is apparently an expert mouser) but we never caught and had to release one during a period of freezing cold weather. This was my dilemma...save the mouse and release him outside, or just "let nature take its course." If this happens again this winter, I still won't know what the best thing is to do. My first instinct is to save the mouse, but when I considered the eventual outcome of doing that (the freezing to death factor) that made me hesitant. I certainly didn't hesitate because I am a "sick" person who was enjoying the show. And I'm sad that anyone would take me as such.