I killed Mickey Mouse

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Jeff7

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Sometimes I feel like the quick death the mice get in the snap-trap I've got set is preferable to what they'd likely get if they lived outside: Eaten alive.


The other option might be a bucket with a rotating trap in the middle that just dumps the mouse down into the bucket. Then have it filled with a heavier-than-air gas. I don't know what you'd need to let them die all euphoric and such, or at least make them tired and then die while unconscious.
But, I don't have much experience in painless suffocation of small animals.
 

Puppies04

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I decided to catch it in a container and flush it down the toilet, and did just that.

You know it is now living in the sewers. Once it grows to 16 or 17 feet long it will come back and murder everyone you know and love.
 

DrPizza

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There's air in your drain pipes - they're not solid water on the inside. The mouse will probably drown... eventually. But, I suppose, it's conceivable that it survives for a little while. If that mouse pulls a Shelly Winters, in Poseidon Adventure, you're in for a surprise the next time you're sitting on the toilet. :p
 

Muse

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I don't have much experience in painless suffocation of small animals.
I figure there is no "painless suffocation," however back in the day I used to chloroform butterflies and moths. I had a collection, mounted and labeled. I got my chloroform from an older guy, a buddy of mine who taught me the fine points in lepidoptery. I suppose he bought it at a pharmacy, don't know if you can still do that. It's toxic, to a degree. It will put an animal to sleep rather quickly if it breathes a high concentration. You could place a cotton ball on top of an open bottle, permeate it somewhat with chloroform and drop that in a plastic bag and then the rodent and it would go to sleep fast. Then you smash the bag with a brick for instant death, then dispose.
 

Red Squirrel

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I would at least have made it a quick death. You put it in a plastic bag and slam it against a hard surface. No mess, you then dispose of the bag as is. If you really want to be sure, stomp on it. While it sounds pretty morbid it's a much faster death than drowning, or worse, somehow surviving the journey to the filtration plant and chemically dying.

I caught a mouse alive once in a snap trap and did this to quickly kill it. Just a word of advice, if you do stomp on it, make sure you don't create an air pocket that will make the bag burst. I never did get that stain off the concrete floor. Lady MacBeth moment right there.
 

Fern

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I like them. I don't kill them. I just put them outside.

Spiders OTOH....

Fern
 

Muse

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I would at least have made it a quick death. You put it in a plastic bag and slam it against a hard surface. No mess, you then dispose of the bag as is. If you really want to be sure, stomp on it. While it sounds pretty morbid it's a much faster death than drowning, or worse, somehow surviving the journey to the filtration plant and chemically dying.

I caught a mouse alive once in a snap trap and did this to quickly kill it. Just a word of advice, if you do stomp on it, make sure you don't create an air pocket that will make the bag burst. I never did get that stain off the concrete floor. Lady MacBeth moment right there.
Yes, I didn't think of that. I would have brought it out to the patio and slammed the bag with a board or brick... if I'd thought of it. Next time...
 
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