Today, there are only a few kinds of mousetraps available at a typical hardware store. And yet, inventors have filed more than 4,500 U.S. patents for animal traps, about 1,000 of which are specifically related to mice.
.” I asked my parents for a pet mouse and was frustrated when they declined; it wasn’t until I moved to New York City that I better inhabited their point of view. Mice can still be cute to apartment dwellers, but they are often annoying, inconvenient, and gross, fuelling arguments among roommates about whose habits are nastier.
When not in use, I like mousetraps well enough. In use, less so; I don’t like the idea of hurting animals. Looking at some trap designs, I find it difficult not to wonder whether people have set out intentionally to punish mice for being so indestructible. It’s possible to group mousetraps not by their technological approach but by their degree of viciousness.
I asked John Griffin, of the Humane Society, for help in making a better mousetrap choice. Griffin works on managing relationships between people and wild animals; when I told him it bothered me that I couldn’t find a truly harmless mousetrap, he confirmed that there really isn’t a perfectly humane way to evict a mouse.
Over lunch at the chain restaurant, Parr and I tried to work out what the point of collecting might be. Maybe it’s an investment; the traps have appreciated, and together, Parr suspects, they are worth close to a hundred thousand dollars. Maybe accumulation has always dazzled him—he didn’t have much growing up. Maybe it’s that mousetraps have wonky histories to explore.
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