Poll of the Day > I just executed a mouse

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Caught in a glue trap, I crushed the whole thing with a rock.

I walked out there and stood there for 20 minutes before smashing it. I love mice. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

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Wow ur so edgy

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you watched a mouse squirm for its life for 20 minutes in a trap before putting it out of its misery?

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Mead posted...

Wow ur so edgy

Would you have thrown it out into the cold to slowly freeze, or smash it so it dies in less than a second?

DirtBasedSoap posted...

you watched a mouse squirm for its life for 20 minutes in a trap before putting it out of its misery?

In my defense, it was in that glue trap a lot longer than 20 minutes.

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If you love mice, why do you have glue traps laying around?

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Rasmoh posted...

If you love mice, why do you have glue traps laying around?

Because they must go, and I have a dog, so no poison or mouse traps.

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My cousin stepped on one that the cat half-finished and it was the most awful sound and sight Ive ever heard and seen.

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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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I lived on a farm for a while. Had a cat named Tigger who would catch mice, moles, and shrews.....and would kill them, bring their corpse to the front porch, lay them out on a big flat limestone rock that was basically our unofficial "welcome" mat....slice open their belly....and then line up all the organs in a row....and then sit next to it and give you a big ol' smile when you opened up the door.

"LOoK WhAt I mAdE FoR YoUUUU!!!"

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https://youtu.be/xPN75KVXwhc

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a real man shoots mice with a .44

quick and painless

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I used a home made bucket trap one year. By the time I'd check the trap, the mice had already drowned, but I had to get a stick and drown one once. That one sucked. Also put a few other rodents out of their misery via air soft pistol before as well. Not really sure what they were. Were larger than mice, but didn't quite look like what I have pictured in my head for a rat, but they were probably some kind of rats. You wouldn't think a plastic bb would be able to dispatch them, but that pistol fired pretty damn hard. A shot or two to the head did the trick in finishing them off. A pellet rifle would've been better though.

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Nothing wrong with a good game of mouse trap.

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Yellow posted...

Would you have thrown it out into the cold to slowly freeze, or smash it so it dies in less than a second?

I wouldnt have stood there for 20 minutes while it struggled in terror

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Yellow posted...

Because they must go, and I have a dog, so no poison or mouse traps.

No kill traps exist.
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Yellow posted...

Would you have thrown it out into the cold to slowly freeze, or smash it so it dies in less than a second?

In my defense, it was in that glue trap a lot longer than 20 minutes.

Why are you making a topic about this? You could have killed it in a more humane way but you post about it here? Wtf?

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No due process???????

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If I was in TC's situation, I probably would've felt sorry for the little guy and let him go.
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@Yellow
You sound new to this whole mouse catching thing so I will let you know.

If you have one mouse you, probably have at least 10 of them. They usually travel as a little family.

Instead of using a garbage glue trap that never works but a stroke of luck when a especially dumb mouse plays on it.

Buy a reusable clamping mouse trap and stuff it full of natural peanut butter and a piece of dry dog food on top. Make sure to check mouse trap every 12 hours. My bait is crazy effective.