I live a bachelor lifestyle, so I have no food in here. Just alcohol. I hope the mouse figures that out and goes away. I should get some traps in case it doesn’t. I hate killing animals but there’s no practical alternative.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    12·
    21 hours ago

    My understanding is that if I release them outdoors here in the city, they’ll go right back into someone’s house. If I release them in the middle of nowhere, they’ll die. A friend of mine tried keeping a captured mouse in a cage, but although he took good care of it, it always appeared to be terrified and died after a few weeks.

    I’m willing to put in effort to protect animals (I’ve been a vegetarian for 18 years) but I think that catch-and-release mousetraps would just move the ugly part out of my sight rather than avoiding it entirely.

    • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
      7·
      20 hours ago

      I hear ya. I live trapped under my sink and got like one a day for weeks and released outside (rural 100 yds from the house in tall grasses). Thought I’d scored a happy wife no longer asking me to kill the countless mice and didn’t have to kill.

      I ended getting kill traps and killed maybe three, because it was the same mice just returning I’m sure via the magic animals do.

      I would probably disagree with the idea that actual wild release would be a death sentence. I think mice would be just fine, or at least have a legit chance. But alas such things aren’t really feasible anyway in the city, and there’s health concerns transporting that far, and so on.