This goes to show that animal cruelity is wrong, no matter what the animal is, even a mouse. According to this article over on CNN “Luciano Mares, 81, of Fort Sumner said he caught the mouse inside his house and wanted to get rid of it.” Ok, I can understand that, but then he goes on to say “I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire….” That is just wrong! No animal deserves that, there are proper ways to remove mice and other varmits from your house, burning them alive is NOT one of them! The only upside to this is that “the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house…to just beneath a window, and the flames spread up from there and throughout the house.” Luckily no one in the house was injured, but I do think this is a kind of poetic justice. Be kind to animals people, or they will burn your house down.

[Update: 01/11/2006 04:12]

According to this article, this story may have just been rumor. The man in question now states that the mouse was already dead and not responsible for the fire.