Getting rid of a mouse

haha, i know but i lived in central london at the time and i just couldn’t be bothered to take my mouse for a 2 mile walk. 😆

but i have regretted it ever since, the sight of the bubble coming out of its mouth continues to haunt me. 🙁

In my old studio flat we had about 5 or 6 mice! Really not nice at all to be honest.

I got a old traditional trap from Homebase and some poision. I didn’t work for a good few days, but then after the mice had somehow eaten the peanut butter from the trap it started going off! 5 dead mice in 5 days!

Never did get that last one, don’t care now though as I don’t live there anymore 😆

catch a mouse, take a walk, release it in the countryside and feel good about it all day.

like me then you just let nature do the killing its a moral conceit 😕

Nah, it’s up to the mouse whether it ends up as an owl pellet or lives to a ripe old age of 2.

I give it the best start I can: leaving it in dense cover with plenty of shelter. The rest is up to it.

On a slightly tangential (but somehow related in my head) question on morale relativism: is it okay for a vegan to eat cows that have died of old age?

They are a pain. Been poisoning them in our loft for months. Find dead ones,goes quiet then starts again.Stuffed all holes with wire wool, poison trays are filled and eaten. Also use sticky boards which I check every day and have then killed about 10 of them over a few months with a brick outside. Given up getting rid of them just keep the numbers down to a minimum.

On a slightly tangential (but somehow related in my head) question on morale relativism: is it okay for a vegan to eat cows that have died of old age?

Only if you think it’s equally OK for cows to eat vegans who’ve died of old age………….

poor bastard.
read burns,you’ll love the wee bugger.

poor bastard.
read burns,you’ll love the wee bugger.

Did Burns find mouse shit under his son’s bed? I suspect not.

One other option is let a rat loose ,mice generally will not stay in the same place where a rat is active.
I hear this one is looking for work..

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This works really well with mice and rats.I use bird seed as bate. 6 mice in 7 days from my shed.

Great comedy replies – superb, especially Nickf’s threesome of cats.

The whole live and let live thing is not the best approach even though it appeals to my humane side. Mice carry all manner of diseases such as salmonella which isn’t that good for us, as I’m sure most know.

Weil things…

I didn’t read but I did look at the pictures 😆

i caught one with a classic trap baited with peanut butter. there was no way i was releasing it alive, but it was only caught by the tail in the trap. I chucked the trap including mouse in a bucket of water to drown it. mouse climbed onto the floating trap and stood there looking at me…

i then had to get a broom handle and hold the mouse under the water til it’s last breath came out of its little mouth.

that may well be an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, any animal becomes a ‘protected animal’ when it is ‘under the control or man whether on a permanent of temporary basis’. And if it suffers unnecessarily as a result of poor practice in the use of the trap, or through a failure to release or kill the animal in an appropriate manner, then an offence of causing unnecessary suffering under section 4 of the Act may have been commited.

What about this chap …… the one on the far right …..