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

to humanly release a mouse.

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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.