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How can I kill a mouse in a humane way? Getting into chicken feed!?

There are currently many electric mouse traps and pest control devices being sold. Many of these devices are being sold as a humane alternative to the traditional spring based traps, sticky glue based traps and rodent poisons. To decide if the electric mouse trap is really humane we must first understand how the conventional methods of mouse control work.

Spring loaded traps have been around for a long time. They deliver a crushing blow when triggered which may or may not kill a mouse. This method is quite imprecise as the trap may trap or injure a mouse which in turn leads to the animal suffering. This kind of trap can be difficult to set and may make a messy job of killing the mouse. If the definition of humane is not to cause unnecessary suffering then the traditional spring loaded mouse trap scores very poorly on the humane scale.

The next type of mouse trap is the sticky glue trap. This is essentially a plastic tray filled with a highly adhesive gel which sticks to anything that comes into contact with it. It is different from the spring loaded trap in that it doesn't kill the mouse. It merely traps the mouse until you are able to deal with it. This often means you are left with the unpleasant job of killing the mouse.

But is trapping the mouse on a sticky tray filled with glue really humane? Often the mouse will die of exhaustion trying to get free. Some mice will even manage to escape by tearing off body parts. Plus there is the issue of how long the mouse is left struggling before you discover it. It hardly seems a humane solution.

The final option for most is the use of poison. There are several disadvantages to using poison but they aren't really concerned with how humane it is to poison a mouse. If the mouse eats the poison and then scurries off to die behind a wall or under the fridge that's a problem for you but it doesn't really make the poison either humane or inhumane. To decide if poison is humane or not we need to know if the mouse suffers unnecessarily after eating it. Poisoning is painful and causes the mouse to suffer without a doubt. Mice are incapable of vomiting and after swallowing the poison they die quite slowly. A slow painful death is definitely not humane.

This brings us to the most modern way of dealing with mice, the electric mouse trap. These are essentially a baited box where the mouse enters and triggers an electric shock. The electric shock kills the mouse extremely quickly. It is certainly a lot more precise than the spring loaded traps. But are such devices humane? Well the answer is that they are humane in the sense that they kill the mouse quickly and do not cause any unnecessary suffering. Compared to regular spring loaded and glue traps they are very humane. Compared to poison they are also humane.

The only real option that would be more humane would be to catch the mouse in a live trap and release it far away from your home. This would of course not guarantee you wouldn't get more mice in your home. Sometimes prevention is better than cure and sealing up possible points of entry into your home and making sure you don't leave food laying around so that the mice don't get in may be a lot more humane than having to resort to any kind of trap. However, if you need to kill a mouse these electric traps may be the most humane way of doing so.

Peter Harrison loves to write helpful articles and build websites! You can visit his website http://www.ratzapper.org/ for information about electronic pest control methods.

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