I live a bachelor lifestyle, so I have no food in here. Just alcohol. I hope the mouse figures that out and goes away. I should get some traps in case it doesn’t. I hate killing animals but there’s no practical alternative.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    101·
    16 hours ago

    If you get a glue trap, they’re stuck, and now you have to deal with a live, suffering animal. If you get a regular mouse trap, they’ll almost certainly have their necks immediately, and humanely broken before you find them. I know that’s still not great, but it’s the better of the options available. I know of no animal-rights person that wants rats crawling over them while they sleep…

    • ArbitraryValueOPEnglish
      6·
      15 hours ago

      I use the snap traps, although the last time I did that, I had to execute a few mortally wounded mice, which was not fun. So many mice were coming into my old house that I resorted to rat poison there (I don’t expect things to get that bad here) but glue traps are over the line for me.

      • smort@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 hours ago

        Check out the electric mouse traps. Mouse walks in, there’s a snap sound, mouse is instantly dead. Worked well for me

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        58 minutes ago

        We’re on the same side. I had a mouse in the 3rd floor of my first apartment building, and had to humanely put it out of its ❔mystery❓ when I finally caught it. ☹️ I haven’t used a glue trap since then…

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