live mouse stuck in trap... help!

[Bowen4Horses]

as some of you may know (i've whinged enough about it) i have a mega mouse problem in my house, mainly upstairs in the bedrooms cos they're up in the thatched roof.

we set some traps. and caught literally dozens. that's fine. my OH disposes of them whilst i hide under the duvet.

i was just upstairs, putting clothes away and i could hear a mouse squeaking... i looked and it's stuck in the trap but still alive... it's back leg is in the trap and it's squeaking. some of it's friends have come to investigate (they don't even bother running away when i appear, they must know i'm useless...

anyway, what can i do with it? my OH isn't due home for an hour or so. it's too cruel to leave it that long isn't it? could i drop it out of the window? what if it still didn't die?

what is the best/quickest way to kill it (it's too squished to set free) without me actually having to DO anything...

 

[ThePinkElephants]

Got any neighbours or anyone to help it? :S.

 

[stacey_lou]

Hit it over the head with something to knock it out. Just to out it out of its missery.

 

[wysiwyg]

get a bucket of water and a mop..scoop up mouse and trap with a shovel, drop into bucket, put in mop, press down, leave for a hour...or until OH returns!!

 

[tashpritty]

Eeek! i feel for you! i wouldnt know what to do?


what about putting it in a bucket of water to drown? (maybe thats mean), but i think its the only way i could do it?

 

[M_G]

Whack it with a shovel

 

[Bowen4Horses]

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Got any neighbours or anyone to help it? :S.

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nope, have a 12yr old son.... bit young? i could put it up in the stables for the cats?

 

[M_G]

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Eeek! i feel for you! i wouldnt know what to do?


what about putting it in a bucket of water to drown? (maybe thats mean), but i think its the only way i could do it?

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That is cruel even for a mouse... I have had to donk one on the head with a rock before now not nice but better than the poor wee thing suffering

 

[wench]

hit it

 

[alsxx]

Don't drown it thats not very nice! I had to kill a bird once - I broke its neck, I was traumatised afterwards but I knew I had done the right thing (my cat had partly skinned it). Is there no one near you that will dispose of it for you?

 

[Bowen4Horses]

i can't whack it with a shovel. i just can't. i didn't realise i was such a wuss bag.

i can drown it with mop. that's good. thank you martha79...

right... phew.... here goes ( *gag* )

i'm off

any minute now










gulp






*wipes sweat from palms of hand*





here i go......

 

[Vizslak]

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Whack it with a shovel

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That has made LOL...dunno why, think its cos that is exactly the phrase I had in my head!

I'm in agreement, smack it on the head with anything heavy that doesnt mean you have to get too close to it, if you can't bring yourself to go near it!

 

[Bowen4Horses]

oh god, now i see you all say not to drown it. i thought drowning was a nice way to die?>!?!?!

i'm going to donk it with a brick. cos i can just drop the brick on it. doesn't take any 'whacking'...

is that better?

 

[wysiwyg]

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oh god, now i see you all say not to drown it. i thought drowning was a nice way to die?>!?!?!

i'm going to donk it with a brick. cos i can just drop the brick on it. doesn't take any 'whacking'...

is that better?

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wear your wellies if you "donk it" as it might splat!!! LOL!

 

[Vizslak]

yep go with the brick...drownings horrid, know which i would prefer!

 

[stacey_lou]

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Don't drown it thats not very nice! I had to kill a bird once - I broke its neck, I was traumatised afterwards but I knew I had done the right thing (my cat had partly skinned it). Is there no one near you that will dispose of it for you?

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I had to do that to, I was walking to the yard and a car hit it, it lay in the middle of the road shacking so I picked it up and broke its neck and laid it in the near by bridalway. Poor thing.

We also had to kill a baby rabbit once at the yard i worked at, it had been attacked by a cat and was in shock no way would it have survived so we hit it over the head with a brick.

Just put it out of its missery quickly.

 

[M_G]

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oh god, now i see you all say not to drown it. i thought drowning was a nice way to die?>!?!?!

i'm going to donk it with a brick. cos i can just drop the brick on it. doesn't take any 'whacking'...

is that better?

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I hope to god you havent half drowned the poor little f**ker... Whack it on the head as hard as you can with a brick the harder you do it the less it will feel

 

[alsxx]

Please don't just drop the brick, hit it with it - OH did this to a rat and he didn't do a very good job and had to drop the brick about 5 times. I was furious!!!

 

[Vizslak]

I'm in agreement that some form of whacking would be better than just dropping the brick.

 

[Ellies_mum2]

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Whack it with a shovel

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Thats what I thought when I read the post title

And yes I could do this .................... I think

 

[Rosie1989]

imagine the pain the poor thing must be in, its more cruel to leave it than to hit it over the head.

 

[Zebedee]

Take it to the vets quick......they'll be able to give it a quicj whiff a ether & either amputate or repair the leg.
On the way home buy a cage & some mouse food

Oh & buy a humane trap for future use

 

[alsxx]

Should we be saying RIP mouse yet?

 

[jendie]

Oh how I feel for you! I'm terrified of mice, really phobic. Best thing would be to whack it on the head with something heavy, a friend of mine once did it with a frying pan. Only other thing I can think of is to put it in front of one of your car tyres and drive forward. Drowning is cruel, takes too long.

 

[Bowen4Horses]

RIP mouse.

*wipes (murderers) sweat from brow*

ah, it was a really cute one, short and fluffy not long and skinny...

i wish i'd seen the idea about running it over before i donked it with a brick... with hindsight a shovel would have been better as when i was about to drop the brick i realised it might just bounce off the trap... so i had to actually hit it. i had my wellies on as i took it outside... didn't think mouse splat would go with my new cream carpet...

*gag*

oh well, i feel strangely heroic... (?!?!). now, where was i? oh yes, tidying my bedroom and turning it into a boudoir for OH's birthday treat. hmmm.... funnily enough, i'm not really in 'the mood' now... the bedroom is slightly tainted.

 

[wysiwyg]

drowningis cruel?

TBH i was thinking more of the OP as she said she was terrified of mice..hence i replied as i did.

if it was me, i would put on my yard boots and stomp on it.

 

[joeanne]

For future ref CCP
Golf club (just remember to yell "FORE" first

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Stomp with boots.....maybe not if you are delicate
Meat cleaver, chop mouse at the neck.....instant!
Maybe this could be the start of a whole new thread......."New And Improved Ways To Kill A Mouse"

 

[Bowen4Horses]

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Meat cleaver, chop mouse at the neck.....instant!


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no way, not if you PAID me. i'm queasy at the thought of it. god, i'm a sucky country bumpkin eh?

 

[Charmaine18]

Ooooh, that's awful.

I don't think I would be able to cope with something like that either. My friend had to to finish off a half-dead bird she found on a Duke of Edinburgh camping trip - the other girls in her group were horrified and really laid into her, when she was already feeling awful about having to do it in the first place.

She slammed it with a hefty stick, for anyone who's interested.

 

[Carsmore]

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Take it to the vets quick......they'll be able to give it a quicj whiff a ether & either amputate or repair the leg.
On the way home buy a cage & some mouse food

Oh & buy a humane trap for future use

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hahahahaha! Thats funny! or were you being serious!!!!???
What about getting a cat in the house? They are the ultimate in rodent control! I find that girls are better hunters, but, even the smell of a cat can send the mice away. I would be getting in touch with my local cat rescue by now.
Well done by the way!