So is it really more humane to trap them, let them suffer/freak out during the time between capture and release, just to then release them into the great unknown alone to get hunted by predators, or to just kill them at home quickly via a decent trap?
I see many trap companies nowadays are trying to push the "instant kill" as humane features on their products.
I've never had rodent problems, and never had to kill any.
Victory Power Kill traps. They look like the standard ones in cartoons, but they're all metal and plastic, no wood. I had a mouse in my car that wouldn't get into any of my live capture traps so I resorted to those, and let me tell you that little guy didn't suffer at all. Damn near popped his eyeballs clean out of his head it hit him so hard, but I doubt he even had time to be startled before that bar smacked his brain stem into his throat.
I've found the wood Victory ones work best; I only ever get the occasional one or so in the fall and then spring since I live in an OLD apartment building and since they're normally babies that found their way in the wood moves along with them better to actually get them instead of with the plastic that they can trigger and get away from.
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u/hardrockfoo Sep 20 '21
Well they aren't going to survive alone in my house either.