# I pit mice **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039 "2013-08-01T00:40:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/41 "2013-08-05T08:02:34Z")
When I had a mouse problem in my last apartment, I first turned to the classic snap traps. They were not particularly effective. Once I made the switch to glue traps, it was all over for Mickey and his little pals. Mercilessly effective devices. Hell, sometimes I would get home from work at night and discover that multiple mice had been caught on a single glue trap. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/42 "2013-08-05T12:06:17Z")
While I’m “fucking” people, fuck people who use glue traps. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/43 "2013-08-05T12:16:25Z")
Glue traps are quick and humane. I like the snap traps better though. Not the metal ones- the plastic ones that look like a big paper clip. Best mousetrap in the history of mousetrapping. ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_See\_Clarity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@Arthur\_See\_Clarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arthur_See_Clarity)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/44 "2013-08-06T04:19:25Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Glue traps are quick and humane. > I like the snap traps better though. Not the metal ones- the plastic ones that look like a big paper clip. > Best mousetrap in the history of mousetrapping. wait wait what. How are glue traps in any way humane? I agree with the plastic chip clip ones being the best, though ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/45 "2013-08-06T04:58:41Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Glue traps are quick and humane. I could use some clarification here. What is the mechanism that causes mouse-death in a glue trap? I was under the impression that they starve to death. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/46 "2013-08-06T05:14:47Z")
Sometimes, their muzzles get down into the glue, and they drown/suffocate. But, yeah, normally glue traps lead to death from starvation/exposure/privation. Not humane by any means. Horrid fucking things. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/47 "2013-08-06T19:53:04Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > How do you figure? Is it that the target area is so small that even a good shot is likely to miss it? IMO, even an average shot will be able to hit the cranium, and that will annihilate the brain. A pellet going at 400 fps or greater will do in a mouse, pretty nearly instantaneously, almost anywhere it hits, but most certainly if it hits the cranium. Yeah, small target, but you’d fire from a lot closer than standard target-shooting range. As Sheldon Cooper says: “I’ll take you outside and teach you how to shoot close enough to a raccoon that it craps itself.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/48 "2013-08-06T20:09:02Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Cats? Seconded. They’re cheap to acquire, cheap to feed, affectionate companions, and abominably cruel executioners. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/49 "2013-08-06T20:33:27Z")
Mice are fuckers. Kill them without mercy and focus on getting the little mini-rat bastards out of your abode. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/50 "2013-08-06T23:56:32Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > As Sheldon Cooper says: “I’ll take you outside and teach you how to shoot close enough to a raccoon that it craps itself.” I didn’t hit him…but I parted his hair! ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_See\_Clarity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@Arthur\_See\_Clarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arthur_See_Clarity)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/51 "2013-08-09T04:09:31Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Mice are fuckers. Kill them without mercy and focus on getting the little mini-rat bastards out of your abode. Researching mouse traps like a year ago is what led me to your topic on google and, by extension, the SDMB. Or maybe it was more recently ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/52 "2013-08-09T19:10:36Z")
I find that to be incredibly awesome. So I guess you know how I feel about mice then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_See\_Clarity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@Arthur\_See\_Clarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arthur_See_Clarity)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039/53 "2013-08-11T04:14:32Z")
That you’re scared shitless of them? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mice/665039.md?page=2)