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 :(

Call some Vets up

One of them will help you out

Of course a vet would deal with it. Not for free of course.

I can't believe all the horrific advice of attacking a poor animal already in distress. Snap its neck, stand on it?

What is better for a wild animal, a short sudden death or waiting, being transported and handled some more and then dying (however vets euthanize wild mice)? Because if I were a wild mouse 100% I'd choose a quick death sooner rather than wait and be transported to a vet.

Why do you care about the mouse suffering but not the cat? You aren’t any more humane and caring than me, you’ve just picked a different side.

I presume the mouse is now dead after all this time?

I know uni students (different country) used to get rid of lab mice no longer required by putting them in a plastic bag and holding it over the car exhaust pipe....

I had a physics teacher who set a homework question on terminal velocity where you had to calculate if a mouse dropped from a height survived or not. I'm pretty sure it wasn't based on a real life experiment though. And I can't remember what I calculated so no help here. (The power of an imaginitive teacher though!)

a good vet would not laugh at you and could dispatch it humanely

You’re anthropomorphising. For a wild animal, being enclosed for a prolonged period and handled by multiple people is far more stressful than a quick death. Some small mammals and birds will even die of shock if restrained or over-handled by humans. Your way simply prolongs its suffering.

I would take it to a vet. They will see you, I was in the same situation with a mouse that ran out onto the pavement in front of a pushchair (not mine). It was sadly dead by the time I got there but they took it and checked it over and didn't think I was wasting their time.

Was the thread title not clear enough for you?

The RSPCA do not advise that. That is absolute rubbish.

I couldn't do it, apart from maybe the car method

When I helped at the stables as a child, there was an obviously poisoned massive rat staggering around, I think one of the dads used a metal shovel.

I'd be too worried about getting it wrong and causing it more pain and suffering.

Don't be ridiculous

https://business.rspcaassured.org.uk/media/oqgfkpmo/pigcasualtyyanimalsamendss202211_.pdf

'You’re anthropomorphising. For a wild animal, being enclosed for a prolonged period and handled by multiple people is far more stressful than a quick death. Some small mammals and birds will even die of shock if restrained or over-handled by humans. Your way simply prolongs its suffering'

Oh so a bit of stamping which may or may not put it out of its misery is better?

I've never seen so any people advocate physically abusing an animal in the hope you might kill it. Jesus.

Vets. Everytime.

Cut it’s head off with a spade/hoe. We did that with a pigeon that flew into our window and broke it’s jaw.

Honestly? I don’t think the OP is coming back.

I found a mouse dragging its back legs in the back garden ( I don’t have a cat but presumably a local one had got hold of it - or a crow). I crushed it with a brick but then remembered that I have a garden tool for digging roots - sort of a serrated knife. I should have used that instead.

OP, a vet will do the job if you take it. I've taken birds to them before over the years.

Put it in a jam jar and hold it by a car exhaust, or soak cotton wool in dry cleaning fluid, and place it over a jam jar containing said rodent.

Same. Found birds in my garden and one that flew into a window. They dealt with them all. No decent vet would laugh behind your back for taking mice etc in. That's a ridiculous thing to say 🙄

The only humane way to kill a mouse is quickly.
I’m in the plastic bag and brick camp.

A single stamp definitely puts it out of its misery. It's instant.

I've wondered about this before. FWIW, it cost £110 to get DD's hamster put to sleep over Christmas. The poor thing had a seizure and was staggering around covered in vomit. DH came with me to the vet and we both cried.

It was in a box for an hour because I thought it was just in shock.

My plan was to let it recover from the shock then release it. I left it with food and water in a quiet box and went back an hour later to see if it was recovered.

I then realised it had something wrong with it's back or legs and releasing it wasn't an option.

I posted, got a few answers and replied and withing 10 mins of posting DH killed it.

Why would I kill it immediately after saving it if I didn't know it was not saveable?

I'd also like to point out that it's not my cat, it's my daughters, who is living with me temporarily whilst selling her house and cats not allowed out of the garden, there's netting across the walls (very small paved, 4 walled courtyard backgarden) so the mouse must have been inside my garden, he can't hunt birds and I've never seen a mouse before in the garden!
He dropped it and ran in the house so I couldn't leave him to finish the job.