I would think so but don't know if the mouse suffers being trapped before it dies. This way seems better than poison which could take a long time to kill and the body will smell later. Has a video camera ever been set up to record death in a mousetrap?
2006-12-01 01:29:44 · 8 answers · asked by bwadsp 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
i would think it depends on where the mouse has been caught on the trap. here is a video of a guy who caught one on a snapping trap. it appears as if the mouse dies right away.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-375677716943511963&q=mouse+in+trap&hl=en
2006-12-01 01:36:10 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is fully dependant on when the spring is released, under which part of the hammer the mouse is trapped and at which part of the mouses' body it strikes. I used to live in an old cottage. There we had traps set in kitchen cupboards, pantry - that type of thing. Quite frequently, when going to reset the traps, a mouse could be found to still be alive. This would suggest that when a mouse is killed in a mousetrap it is not always instantaneous. We eventually got cats. More efficient, less messy and more natural.
2006-12-01 09:36:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on where the mousetrap catches the mouse. If it does catch it across the neck, that would be an instant death. But if it catches it across the leg, or the middle of the mouse, the mouse may either chew off it's own leg, or it would be a much slower death. Poison isn't fast either....mousetraps are a better choice than poison.
2006-12-01 09:36:04 · answer #3 · answered by LadyBanshee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends where the mouse is caught it could snap the neck or back which is instant but in some cases (like on one of my traps) his upper lip got caught and he ended up bleeding to death, best way to get them is humane traps and then drowning the little bliters!
2006-12-01 09:36:34 · answer #4 · answered by Chel1525 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know for a fact the glue traps don't kill instantly, which is obvious. I came home from work one day a few years ago and there was a mouse on one of the glue traps crying and gnawing on it's leg. It had already chewed one of it's other legs off. GROSS.
2006-12-01 09:33:33 · answer #5 · answered by Mom of Three 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It all depends if the neck is broke or not! If not they stare to death or die from internal injuries!! But, who cares if it suffers anyhow? If it's a pest and only a mouse?
2006-12-01 09:39:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is supposed to be, however, it doesn't always guarantee immediate death. sometimes they flop around for awhile before they die. i cannot do that to another liveing thing. i use the humane traps and then let them go a great distance away.
2006-12-01 09:41:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It snaps the neck. About as instant as you can get. I prefer glue traps myself.
2006-12-01 09:33:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋