Redneck mousetrap

[Rich46yo]

I avoid cruelty if i can cause I dont enjoy it. But Im not going to tolerate mice running around and I set sticky traps for them. I cant imagine thats a very pleasant way to die If I dont find them in time and smash their heads in with a hammer.

I live in a wretched city so I have too put up with coons, possums, skunks, and what not. Let me find them out on the farms I hunt and they are dead in short order. And I dont hold prayer sessions for them afterwards. They are all destructive pests.

[danny76]

Honestly I have no issue with any of this. Kill'em all for all I care, just kill them in a way that causes minimal suffering. This shouldn't be a debate. And as for slowly scalding things to death Dredlock. grow up .Nobody thinks this makes you sound tough son.

[DREDIOCK]

Honestly I have no issue with any of this. Kill'em all for all I care, just kill them in a way that causes minimal suffering. This shouldn't be a debate. And as for slowly scalding things to death Dredlock. grow up .Nobody thinks this makes you sound tough son.

When the hell did I say I "slowly" scalded it to death?. Those suckers run around. There is no way I could have "slowly" scalded it to death.

And again. I couldnt care less how tough or untough you or anyone else thinks I am.

What I AM saying is I dont give a damn how a rat dies

[DREDIOCK]

I've lived in the country my entire life, my grandfather was a shepherd, my father and his brothers poached for enough to eat when they were kids.I have served my country and have made sure the other guy has gone down  so that I get home. As a part of my job I routinely have to kill birds, almost on a daily basis, I also have to kill mice/rats and a variety of other vermin, when I do so I make sure it's with a single blow, or neck dislocation. Scalding something to death for no other reason than you feel like it would be intersting is below contempt.

Idiot. I scalded it to death because the hot coffee was as I stated what I had handy. Perhaps you should consider a reading comprehension course.
I'd have asked it to stay put while I went and gotten a club. but somehow since it had spotted me already I dont think it would have listened.
Besides that even if I had  and managed to smash it to death then I'd have rat innards to clean up. Which I am quite glad I didnt have to do. Nor did I have to worry about playing hide and seek had it escaped.

In the end I really dont care how a rat dies in my home though. So long as it dies.

Speaking of humane. Ever see an animal die from rat poison? Or how humane really are those sticky traps?

Gimme a break

[ink]

I love animals.....absolutely.


a rat/mouse needs to be killed as fast and efficiently as possible....anything handy(for all the reason previously stated).


now if you are raising said rats/mice and killing them for your pleasure....thats an issue....THAT is "inhumane"

[mtnman]

Mice don't die of old age, and many of the ways they die in the wild are far more traumatic than drowning (which btw, they also do in the wild)...

Anyway, I think this is fitting;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSBO8YAnTQ

[NatCigg]

Mice don't die of old age, and many of the ways they die in the wild are far more traumatic than drowning (which btw, they also do in the wild)...

Anyway, I think this is fitting;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSBO8YAnTQ

 

[Scherf]

You could put both his eyes out and douse him in petrol then light it. After all it'll be fun to watch and who cares how it dies?

You've been watching Japanese cooking shows.

Seriously, if this is a remote place that needs to be kept vermin free but can't be checked every bloody day, I don't have see the problem with it. "My species wins."

And those snap-traps don't always work as advertised. I had a job many lifetimes ago which involved setting and checking the traps every few days. One day came across a mouse whose spine had been shattered mid-back by the killing arm, but it hadn't died - poor creature must have suffered for days, a good deal more than any of those which drowned in the anti-freeze.

[Rob52240]

That's even better than the redneck fire alarm.

[Bodhi]

this I did not know.  I just dont see how this trap is any different than placing dcon out, or any other rat poison.

It is exactly because dead mice stink that you don't use Dcon.  Mice generally just transport the DCon from the box at point A to a nest at Point B.  When they get it there, they eat at their leisure and then die there.  It's very unpleasant when they die in your walls or some other place that is difficult to access.

I don't enjoy the thought of any critter (except probably mosquitos or no see ums) dying a miserable death, but time and the amount of damage the vermin cause have pushed me to using this because it works and is very, very cheap.

[smoe]

cool.