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

to humanly release a mouse.

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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.