Mice in the house - humane trap, surely just moves the problem to somewhere else?

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Why?
Can''t people poison them?

what is the reason behind a humane trap,?
you move them to become someone else's problem.
would they survive in the wild?

Don't they have as much right to live on this planet as we do though?

As do cockroaches and bedbugs?????

The reason behind a humane trap is wanting to be humane.

I had to poison some pests recently and was upset to do it.

If you poison them they'll get in the walls and die and smell.

Of course they can survive in the wild, they're not domesticated. You drive them a few miles away and let them go in a field.

I am a strict vegetarian, I avoid killing animals. There are exceptions- I am violently allergic to wasp stings so they need to die (it’s them or me). There are times when I can make a choice, my first choice would be a humane trap.

Having said that.... the mouse who moved in off the fields just pulled the humane trap into its nest and chewed it so it could live in it. The whole trap just disappeared! We found it under the kitchen cupboards. Sadly, I couldn’t stand on my veggie principles any longer, the risk of disease etc meant I had to get an old fashioned trap.

I still feel bad about killing that mousy genius- perhaps it was for the best as it would probably be planning world domination by now.

I would 100% rather use an old fashioned flip trap than poison. I'm not saying either are ideal, but poison is seriously horrid and putting new chemicals in the food chain.

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I think world dominance is on its way for mice personally.

how is poison putting chemicals into the food chain?
whose food chain?

How long do you think it survives for when you take it miles away from its territory?

gamer, I imagine they just move into another house

I normally get jumped on when I say this, but mice need to die. If you've lived through several bad mouse plagues, you'd never suggest humane traps. When I refer to bad plagues I mean examples like highways being brown and moving and worse

Cats or birds may eat the poisoned mice if they end up outside (which they can do if disoriented by the poison).

If it wasn't for the potentially for nibbling all the electrical cables I would just live and let live, but I need my washing machine to remain functional...

The lifespan is a field mouse is only about 12 months anyway. As far as I'm concerned, we move them to a field, and it's up to them from there.

a field mouse isnt a house mouse though? afaik

We have a mouse just now. Two traps down and he hasn’t gone near them.

But I don’t want poison in the house as I have two wee ones

The mice we get are field mice. I'm in Ohio. But, I don't think just because it's called a house mouse means that it was meant to live in a house. I think they're still meant to live outdoors.

gamer, I imagine they just move into another house

Really?

Taking an animal that's been living in your house away from its nest and safe source of food to more than 2 miles away (they've been known to travel 2 miles to get home) to an unfamiliar territory, counting in of course the stress of being caught and travel time means it'll probably be quickly finished off anyway. Why would you want to do that? You're better off just killing it quickly.

We got mice in from the fields and woods in Autumn. I used Humane traps because I used to have pet mice and dealing with a live mouse (in the trap obviously because otherwise hey would bite!) is fine but a dead one would be a bit traumatic for me. After I evicted 3 mice no more turned up. Also with small kids, I don't want poison in the house and if the mice were poisoned they would probably die in the walls and make a big stink.

so it seems there is not much humane in the so called humane traps, they die anyway?

Poison seems a bit unkind. Surely the most humane route is the good old fashioned flip traps. I remember as a child finding traps that had gone off in outbuildings. We used rat traps but would occasionally find a mouse. The mice would usually be cut clean in half. I don't imagine that they suffered much.

I had to get mice from my parents property recently and I didn't want to kill them. I'm embarrassed to say that I caught the mice in the traps then let them out a couple of miles away behind some houses with sheds so the mice would have somewhere warm to go and live (this was in the winter) hence passing the problem on to other people

Even worse after catching and letting go 6 mice I could still hear them between the floorboards and in the loft and ended up getting pest control in anyway.

I am not a fan of humane traps for the reasons given above. you let them go somewhere unfamiliar and they starve to death because its not their home. Same happens with trapped urban foxes "set free" in the wild.

we use snapback traps with Christmas cake, fruit cake or bits of bread with peanut butter on. they are attracted to high fat foods. I check the traps a couple of times a day in case they are caught not killed and dispatch them myself quickly and humanely.

we have field mice living in our sheds and garage and I don't touch them because they rarely come into the house.

we don't use poison because the can die anywhere and will stink. also its a slow horrible death and I wouldn't want that for any animal.

For god's sake, don't poison them. Use the old-fashioned trap that breaks their neck. It's over in an instant.

Peanut butter works the best in my experience.