Is it really possible to stomp a live mouse to death?
This is a rhetorical question.
I just couldn’t do it. I have a problem stomping on roaches because of the crunchy sound they make…and I can’t bleeping stand roaches.
But a live mouse? I used to keep them as a kid. I can’t imagine stomping them to death, either with a shoe or a hammer or the various other implements suggested in this thread. I don’t even think I could put out a “kill trap.”
Apparently I am spoiled enough not to have a mice-related problem. In my head I understand they are pests, and I understand killing pests. Spiders. Roaches. Flies. Fleas. Bees. Hornets. Wasps.
But a mouse? I have no moral argument re: killing them–because they are pests and whatever–but I have a huge hangup about actually taking part in it.
I realize my own hypocrisy and I have no solution.
The seem incredible mean and cruel to me, and frankly I think anyone using them is a heartless bastard.
But now that you have the mice on the glue trap, I think you need to have the guts to follow up on what you started when you laid out the trap. Take a hammer and smash the beasties skull. That’s what I did, with a brick, when I encountered an obviously poisoned and insane mouse who was running in ever slower circles on the sidewalk on broad daylight. Not fun, but the most humane thing to do.
Best way to deal with mice? Just don’t leave any food where they can get at it. Put food in plastic airtight containers. Mice will just stop coming to your house.
Probably not. I was trying to do that with Pega Rata “Stick Mouse,” which I"m pretty sure is the same as that sticky stuff and which comes in a tube. You squeeze it onto piece of carton, and in the process I got it on my hand. It was impossible to get off, and I tried rubbing alcohol, which didn’t work, but Vaseline did.
But I don’t think you want to use Vaseline on two nearly dead mice. They’d probably bite you.
Jesus! I hope you’re joking. You should either take them out to the yard and shoot them, or smash them. If you can’t bring yourself to smash them by hand, you could put them beneath the tire of your car and then drive over them. Giving them electricity seems kind of unnecessary.
I had a terrible experience with glue traps back in the mid-90’s. I rented a little house, basically in a field outside Raleigh, NC. One winter, when it got really really cold, we got mice. My roommate was a tender-hearted vegan and couldn’t bear to kill them with snap traps, so we started out with live traps.
Live traps (not glue traps, but kind of a tilty tube that trapped the mouse alive and well) worked great - but then I had no idea what to do with the mouse. I used to take them off to work with me and let them run free in the woods near the school I was student teaching in. My tender hearted roommate refused to have anything to do with the traps or the mice and I got frustrated with having to deal with the mice (and they did NASTY things in the traps which then had to be cleaned) and didn’t see the point of freeing them to go bother other people.
So, my roommate said to get glue traps as the next step, since she thought snap traps would be oh, I don’t know MEAN or something. The first night, glue trap worked great, caught a mousie face first and he was smothered when I found him. The next night, I was woken up by the sound of keening. A mouse was caught on his side in the trap, I had no idea what to do with it. I happen to be rather tender hearted myself and I definitely couldn’t stomp it! I ended up putting the entire trap/mouse on the back porch in the freezing cold and the mouse was dead the next morning.
I bought snap traps and told my roommate to suck it.
Glue traps in my experience are safer with kids and pets, and are much more effective mouse catchers than spring traps. A mouse has a chance with spring trap if they nibble carefully. A glue trap is sure death. Put the glue trap and mouse in a closed jar with a paper towel soaked in rubbing alcohol. The mouse will expire, Put in a baggie and toss.
I so hata and am creeped out by mice that when I catch them on glue traps, I scoop them into a plastic bag, trap and all, and throw them out in the trash.
That might be heartless but they’re going to die anyway.
It was a tough, horrifying decision to make in the middle of the night - I’m too squeamish for stomping. I never forgot it and still feel badly about that mouse. I’ll never buy a glue trap again.
Place the gluetrap mouse-side-down in a bucket of water. Walk away if your squeemish, though I have never experienced any sort of yelps or thrashing from the drowning mouse. Return in a couple of minutes and the mouse will be expired. Pull the trap+mouse from the water and place the whole thing in a plastic grocery bag. Tie the handle straps in a knot. Toss in a municipal trash can. That’s how I do it.
While I appreciate you being honest about such a thing on a messageboard, I have to say that is gruesome, and makes me sick to my stomach to think about.
I can imagine all to well how I, or a creature I love, would feel if stuck to a giant fly paper, with limbs in the crippling position that was the result of stumbling upon the paper, falling down and trashing about in panic to become unstuck?
Left to die slowly, for days. A plastic bag knotted close *will * leave in just enough air to draw out the slow suffocation process, with some extra panic everytime something gets thrown on top of the garbage. Add having broken or bleeding limbs where I had tried to free myself by gnawing through my own wrist. Hanging upside down, or in whatever position in which the whole thing landed in the thrash can?
And the argument “the animal was going to die anyway”. Try that argument in situations like a beloved pet dying or even a person dying, and see how far that will get you.
And did I mention how recent research from a Dutch university has proven, beyond doubt, that animals (rats and dogs) do feel not only “pain in the moment”, but show the same brain responses that indicate “emotional suffering” in humans? If you are willing to concede that humans suffer as a result of pain, then you have to admit it is proven that rats and dogs do, too. And I’m not willing to bet that mice are fundamentally different. Are you?
Have the balls to buy a clap-trap and find a housemate to clean up the little corpses. Or get a cat. Even the cruelty of a cat playing with a mouse is better then what you’re doing.
And for those of you living in cold climates who have mice in winter; doesn’t that problem solve itself in summer again, as long as you make sure there is no food accessible to the mice?
I feel bad saying this, but this thread has convinced me to buy these glue traps.
There are mice in the walls in my apartment, and I am convinced they sneak into my room at night when I’m at work. They sneak by all the conventional SNAP mouse traps.
It’s through a closet so I’m thinking of lining the border of my closet with them.
In my defense, I’m in my apartment everyday. And while I don’t have the energy for the car exhaust asphyxiation , I would probably drown them before throwing them away.
I live on a farm in a 100 year old house, so yeah I have mice. I use snap traps and occasionally let the cat in. The dogs have issues with the cat though, and think the mice belong there, so usually it’s the traps that get them.
No way in hell would I ever use glue strips, those things should be banned. Thats just cruel. If you have mice, get a cat fer fuck sakes!
Some of you guys are sick fucks that need your heads checked.
But I tried the traditional traps and those sneaky fuckers get around them.
My landlord doesn’t allow pets (I have a fish, sssshhh), and a cat would be miserable in my apartment anyways.
I understand it’s not the most humane route, but those fuckers keep pooping in my closet when I’m away.