TravelingChris Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 My dd has a chore which we pay her for to clean out the pool filter. So this afternoon she comes up running into the house and says there is a dead rodent in the filter. I go and look and yes, there is. So eventually I throw it away. SHe thinks I am horrible. What should I have done? It wasn't her pet or anything and we can't keep it in the filter (not that is what she wanted). I don't know what she wanted me to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary in VA Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Ask her, I'd love to hear her answer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeslieAnneLevine Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 You're not horrible. I guess I'd ask her what she would have preferred I do and talk about it. Maybe it's not too late to bury it or something (not that fishing it out of the garbage is any fun). Maybe she feels a bit guilty about it dying (as in, "If it weren't for our pool it would still be alive"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloversandlions Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 If it were my child, she'd want me to bury it. We buried a lovely little barn owl that had been hit by a car a couple months ago; it died a few hours after we found it. We've also buried pet rodents. I'd probably have done the same thing you did, although if my daughter insisted, I'd allow her to bury it herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeslieAnneLevine Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Also I wanted to be clear that I wasn't saying you should fish it out of the garbage (though I'm guessing it's in some kind of plastic bag) just that maybe it could be an option if she wanted to bury it. I definitely think she should have some part in doing whatever it is she preferred you do. I mean you already had to get it out of the filter! I would not want that job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momma aimee Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 :ack2: :iagree: My children keep bringing ME dead and almost dead grasshoppers for medical care Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 I think she didn't want anything dead to be in there. You are paying her to clean it out, she's lucky she didn't have to deal with it herself. :ack2: I reached into the sump pump once thinking I was picking out a fallen sock and it was a rodent. Yikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I get at least 4-6 rodents (chipmunks or mice, usually) in the pool filter every summer. My yard is filled with little rodents. I chuck them into the overgrown bushes behind my back fence. Did you ask your daughter what she wanted you to do with it? They are pretty gross by the time you scoop them out, so it wouldn't be easy to bury them or even put them in a baggie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisemomof4 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 aaaawww, poor little rodent! How could you just throw it away? You should have built it a coffin, enclosed your favorite jewels, had a service, then buried it beneath the front window of your house. I'm so sorry you don't understand these things. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 We might have had a funeral. But then again, one of our (many) dead gerbils once laid in state on top of the dog's kennel wrapped in a paper towel for....a very long time. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msk Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Well, at my house, it would have been because she wanted to boil it and remove the bones so we could reconstruct the skeleton... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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