if you catch a mouse, do you kill it or let it go outside?

Question

if you let it go, it will just get in someone else's house or eventually back in your own, so I go with the first one!

Answer 1

I let it go. You need to take it out in the country, at least a mile away from your house, and release it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants. For those who are interested, I've had great success with this trap in my house:

http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266

I've caught over ten mice with it so far and it can be used over and over indefinitely. Or, you can try making the free homemade humane trap described here:

http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp

If you do live trap mice, please be sure to check the traps several times a day and release the mice promptly. It is much more cruel to allow a mouse in a live trap to slowly starve to death than to kill it quickly with a snap trap.

The absolute cruelest traps are glue traps. Mice have been known to gnaw off their own limbs and tear off their skin in an effort to escape, as they starve or dehydrate to death or suffocate in the glue. It can take three to five days for them to die. Poison isn't any better, as the mice die slowly and painfully from internal bleeding. It can take up to a week for them to die, and then they smell as they rot behind your walls.

It doesn't take much extra effort to be kind.

Answer 2

I let it go...he has no fault he came inthere to get some crumbs...Of course i let it go...even if he will enter smb other's house..or will be eaten by a cat ...at least i gave him the chance to live.

Answer 3

If it gets caught, it's gonna be dead. That's how it works in Dragon's house. Dragon's gonna let her dog try and catch it too. He might eet it, but it's reelly fast, so he prolly won't catch it.

Answer 4

I let it go, I live up a couple of levels so I know it won't come back to my place, my cats would get it anyway. :)

Answer 5

I RUN OUTSIDE until someone can go and get the body...dead or alive!

Answer 6

let it go outside...I know it's kind of contributing to the problem but I just wont be able to kill it...sad isn't it

Answer 7

I feed it to my burmese python, saves me money at the pet shop every month

Answer 8

Wwell When I have caught them, they were usually already dead.... So, there was never a chance or time to show mercy.

Answer 9

I just had a mouse in my house, and i find that under those circumstances I STAND IN MY FREAKING CHAIR AND SCREAM.........................

Answer 10

I chop it up and then fry it for dinner!