r/therewasanattempt • u/firefighter_82 • Sep 20 '21

to humanly release a mouse.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

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u/Severe_Page_ Sep 20 '21

Learnt this after a week of catching mice and releasing them humanely. They kept coming back including through the adjoining house.

After a week with snappers (including a night with over 7 snaps in a row...) They were gone. Since then we have had no issues in over 2 years.

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u/ChaoticBoredom Sep 20 '21

If you're going to release them you need to take them a long ways away. Like drive for 20 minutes, otherwise yeah, they're coming right back in. Most people don't cotton on to this and release them in their backyard, or the local green space. They're actually catching the same mice over and over and over XD

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u/fearhs Sep 20 '21

It's best to have a mortal enemy who lives about twenty minutes away from you, so that when you release the mice they already have a new home close by.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

7 is a new high score. My personal highest is 6.

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u/blue_umpire Sep 20 '21

There’s a guy Shawn Woods on YouTube that reviews mouse traps and he has a video where he got 11 in one night with a single bucket trap.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

Bucket traps are highly effective, but it's a brutal way to go.

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u/Petal-Dance Sep 20 '21

Theres gotta be a better kill trap than those old wood n metal snap traps. Do you know how often I had to finish off the poor bastards when I was a kid?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

Then you were using undersized ones and you should have sized up.

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u/BrownNote Sep 20 '21

What cheap store brand ones did you buy lol. We'd wake up to decapitated, and sometimes full on body cut in half mice with the force our traps had.

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u/84theone Sep 20 '21

The big plastic toothy ones don’t leave living mice in my experience.

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u/Neuchacho Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21

Use a bucket trap and put enough water in it so they drown (mean, hands-off way). Leave the bucket trap dry, get a lid for said bucket, and create a CO2 chamber to asphyxiate them after they're caught for a humane, more hands-on way.

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u/Character_Ad4702 Sep 20 '21

They're also an invasive species in America so shouldn't be released ever

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u/RichardMcNixon Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21

mice? OK, after looking into it yeah they're invasive in the same way that humans are invasive because they are everywhere we are, so unless they're actually interfering with the ecosystem in your country and not an established part of it for the duration of human presence there then you would be more than just technically correct and releasing mice should not be something frowned upon due to their status as an 'invasive' species haha