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DIY Humane Mousetrap.

By Alex in Animal on Oct 20, 2006 at 1:04 am


Scott Marquardt turned this conventional (and quite lethal) mousetrap into a humane "catch and release" DIY trap using coffe can, wire screen, and good old fashioned ingenuity: Link

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  1. Dan
    Oct 20th, 2006 at 6:18 pm

    Traditional traps that kill mice instantly are humane. If you take a trapped mouse and relocate it it is likely to go back into your house or somebody elses or be attacked by a mouse who lives in the territory you introduced it to.
    Inhumane traps are glue traps that cause mice to slowly die of thirst or poisons that cause them to hemmorrage internally.
    A quick whap and a sudden end is preferable.

  2. Dave
    Oct 20th, 2006 at 9:16 pm

    I'm with Dan. Catch & release is fine for fish, but for vermin, best to finish them off so quickly they don't know what hit them.

  3. Denita TwoDragons
    Oct 21st, 2006 at 9:16 am

    I'm also with Dan and Dave on this one.

    And glue traps? Just...ugh. Absolutely horrible.

    --TwoDragons

  4. Scott Marquardt
    Dec 22nd, 2006 at 3:16 am

    I tend to agree as well.

    Another humane-ness problem that was quite an educational experience for me: the trap caught baby mice wonderfully -- but some were caught early enough in the night that by the time I checked the trap in the morning, the little things were already uncomfortably dehydrated. That was NOT a fun discovery. As a farm lad and hunter, I learned to hold in contempt those who didn't kill quickly -- and here I was years later, creating suffering myself (albeit unwittingly).

    As for the "catch and release" approach, I realized I was probably dooming the released mice to being a meal before long in the forest.

    As it turns out, we now have feline means of detering mice. This has proven 100% effective.

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