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That does sound particularly nasty. I use the oldschool traps. Quick and brutally effective. Bar usually smashes their skulls. It's a grlizzly sight, almost sickly amusing with their little eyes bulging out like that. I've seen them die. They live for a few dozen seconds even with such damage. As awful as it is, it's preferable over playing host to the little pests, and if I were in their situation, I think I'd prefer going out that way than via glue trap. Once dead, I toss them outside for whatever's lucky enough to find the little morsel, which might not be so appetizing if prepared stone-age pancake style.

I read a report a while back that someone who caught a mouse in a glue trap tossed it into a fire. That one ended in poetic justice, as the fire melted the glue, and the mouse, still ablaze, ran back inside the house. I can only guess who was more horrified, the mouse as it burned to death, or the sad oaf who thought it would be a good idea to burn an animal alive, only to end up burning his house down.

One time I caught a particularly lucky mouse in one of the oddest of ways. If it had happened to someone else, say the guy in the above story for example, things could have turned out quite badly for the little rodent. See, I was in bed trying to get to sleep, when I heard the noise from the toaster-oven. I got out of bed, crept over, and gave the door a little nudge. The springs did the rest, slamming shut and trapping the mouse inside. Tired, I went straight to bed after that, but the next morning I released the mouse outside, a fair distance from the house, alive.

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