I caught to mice in our office with sticky traps. I don’t think they can be freed without killing them. Any thoughts on what I should do with them?
They may, or may not, come loose with rubbing alcohol.
I just put them in a plastic bag and stomp, stomp, stomp. You can just throw it away after that.
Oh, Shagnasty, bad bad bad bad bad!!! Blech, ewwww. You cracked me up. Hate the stoopit things. I trap them in the standard traps, baited with peanut butter, and throw the suckers out when they snap.
I thought of maybe putting the trap outside and using the mice as bait to catch a cat.
For a painless death, you could suffocate them. Use a plastic bag to trap car exhaust, then slip the trapped mice in.
This method is sometimes recommended to euthanize injured wildlife if out of reach of a vet.
Yeah, those sticky traps are horrible. Use a kill trap next time.
I just realized they are sitting next to a car battery we use for powering security cameras in remote locations. Maybe I will see how much they can take.
Wtf?
Good idea. Immerse the traps, with the mice, in a quart of rubbing alcohol, and check to see if they’ve come loose after an hour or so.
Discretely leave the trap and mice in a restaurant that you do not like.
Live targets for BB gun target shooting?
No?
Put them in the freezer.
Before I had cats and ferrets to handle the job, I used kill traps.
I once tried poison, but it didn’t kill right away; it made them drunk-like.
I got tired of having to finish the job with the claw hammer.
IMHO, a hammer to the head is more humane than a lot of the ideas posted thus far as their little skulls aren’t that tough and you can take 'em out with one blow.
And then you can use the cat to catch a dog.
(Of course I’d use a bird to catch the cat; and I’d catch the bird by using a spider as bait, which I’d catch with a fly.)
I hate glue traps. I worked at a restaurant once that used them, and one morning I got to work to discover two mice trapped on the same one. The one in back had gnawed through the leg of the one in front; who knows how long they’d been sitting exhausted after that? They were both still alive; I crushed them on the trap, after fruitlessly trying to get them free from it and realizing the glue was stronger than their flesh. They’re horrible things. Use kill traps, which have the decency to kill immediately!
That said, while the traps are not illegal, deliberately subjecting the trapped animals to pain is likely to be a crime, perhaps even a felony. Kill them quickly and cleanly, not just because it’s the law, but because it’s the decent thing to do.
Daniel
Glue traps can be used in households with pets or small children.
So, needed.
I’ve used spring traps without problems in houses that had both pets and children. You simply need to tuck them in inaccessible places (which tend to be where the mousies are).
If you’re not trying to kill mice, why would you be using sticky traps? If you are trying to kill them, what’s the big deal? Whack them with a suitable instrument (say, a shoe).
My cat finally achieved a slight amount of usefulness after about ten years of free loading. He caught a mouse.
I used Shagnasty’s method. Others wanted to throw him out in a shopping bag, but I thought it was better end his suffering.
I hate killing mice.
Vile.
First they came for the mice…