How to humanely euthanise a mouse??

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Dcat has brought in a mouse. Then dropped it and ran.

It's been in a box for an hour but it's back legs or spine is broken.

I can't release it like that :(

definitely quicker than letting it sit in a box for an hour whilst consulting mumsnet

I once had to do it and hit the back of its neck with the edge of a spade blade...instant. Completely horrid to do, but kinder.

What yhe actual fuck 🤯 How is that humane. Keep it warm and comfortable amd take it to a local vet.

The bugger has been mashed by a cat, how are you going to keep it comfortable!!

I'd have bollocked the cat for doing a crap job and told it to try harder!!

I'm not sure that's the best option with a mouse. You just wouldn't get the same momentum that you would with a piglet, so you may not get the desired effect.

I put a bag over a bird's head and bashed it quickly with a hammer in similar circs. Bird had its stomach partly clawed out with intestines visible, and yet had survived a few hours being occasionally batted by the cat by the time I got up the stomach to do it. I apologised to it when I covered it over. Felt shit but it was the right thing to do, eventually.

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You can't take a mouse to a vet! It's not a pet. Smash it in, put it out of its misery. Bloody hell, people are so lily-livered these days.

Take it to a vet. My friend is a vet and has had to euthanise rodents on many occasions over the years.

Of course you should kill it asap with a sharp blow or break its neck. People who are too squeamish to do this and would keep a suffering animal alive for someone else to deal with shouldn't keep cats tbh. It's your responsibility, take the consequences.

I'm not vegetarian but I do find it fascinating how many people who eat meat daily would not be able to bring themselves to dispatch a suffering mouse.

(Not sure if I could either!)

Worse things happen to animals every minute of every day.

Good luck with the decision OP, hope it's already resolved or will be soon.

I can't believe you would be so cruel as to leave it for so long. Get a hammer and a brick and crack its skull very firmly. If you can't do that you shouldn't have a pet that will catch other animals.

I had to put one in a food bag the other day and hit it with the rolling pin. Horrid, but certainly better than dying slowly with a broken back.

Cover it with an old towel, so it’s not scared any more and it won’t splatter, then hit it really hard with a hammer, brick, or large heavy book . The mouse would thank you for it if it could .

Two hours have now passed by since you first posted, @statetrooperstacey

Have you put the poor creature out of its misery yet?

Absolutely do not take to a vet.

put your grown up pants on and deal with it yourself. Either a brick to the head and squash it very quickly. Or drive over it like others said.

the longer you leave it the crueller you are being!!!!

I am not squeamish usually but I could not stamp on a live mouse till it';s dead, or hit it with a brick. May be drop it out of a top floor window? I could just about do that I think.

Or give it back to the cat

The window thing probably won't work due to how light mice are. Rats would splat, but a mouse wouldn't due to its low terminal velocity.

Knowing that I wouldn't have been able to despatch it myself I'd have taken it to a vet as soon as the cat appeared with it if no-one else was around to help (although I refuse to have a cat for this very reason - I can't deal with the aftermath of their normal behaviour so no point in me having one). DH and some of my friends /neighbours would deal with it quite happily so I would have tried them first.

Hopefully you've dealt with it now.

Vets are actually helpful with wildlife.

Don’t take it to a vet! You’d get laughed out of there. Well maybe not to your face but certainly behind your back. Imagine if everyone did that! They would be skint within a week, sorry guys we can’t spay your dog for £500 we’ve had an influx of injured mice to attend to and we’ve been humanely euthanising them.

This is similar to hitting a rabbit or a pheasant with your car - but a bit less personal. You have to reverse and finish the job so the animal doesn't suffer.

You'll have to whack it, OP.

would a vet charge for this?

Can you run it over in the car?

Put it in a carrier bag and smack it hard against an outside wall.

I have experience.

Hard outdoor surface, sharp spade blade onto the neck, firmly and decisively. It's not pleasant, but it's humane.

(Hoping OP did something long before now, mind you.)