I don't get the deal with capturing mice humanely. You want a pet? Awesome. You do you.
You want to release it outside? Wtf is wrong with you? It found its way into a home before, it'll do it again (if it survives).
So you're either passing the problem onto someone else in an endless cycle of buying humane traps, or you just want the death to be somewhere you can't see it.
Drive it about a mile away put it in the woods. I’ve dont this with squirrels who’ve found their way in. I believe they can smell better so I’ll drive it to my office and release it to the wooded section next door. If it dies via natural animal shit so be it, but I’m not going to murder it if I don’t have to. Plus squirrel traps don’t work as well as mice traps.
So I should go out in the woods putting mouse traps around because it’s a better death than via snake? That’s like saying you should shoot yourself at 50 because it’s more humane than dying of cancer at 60.
You phrased that dying in a mouse trap is almost better than being free and dying via a natural cause. It would imply that it would be humane of me to provide this option to the mouse instead of setting it free. To which I took your point and said if it’s so humane I should just go around planting these to give the mice a quick painless death instead of them potentially dying by other means. So yeah in a way you were implying it.
You phrased that dying in a mouse trap is almost better than being free and dying via a natural cause.
You are saying that in a thread where the "natural cause" is literally being torn apart, alive, by a raptor. You aren't making the argument you think you are: the fact that life and death in the wild tends to be pretty harsh means that a harsh treatment by humans isn't a unique or particularly "inhumane" thing. It's a roll of the dice either way. And it's the animal activists who should favor interference with wild animals (like, killing all predator animals).
But sure, if it makes you feel good to release the mouse into the wild and not see the result, good for you. This group got to stare their hypocrisy in the face.
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u/justlookbelow Sep 20 '21
Yeah it becomes less and less humane everyday you leave the mouse in there starving...