For many people, setting a traditional mouse trap isn't at all difficult. For others, the idea of tricking a mouse into getting its own neck snapped tends to give pause. If you're one of the latter, here's a great non-lethal alternative.
After capturing your mouse, you can then decide what to do with it. For most, the solution will involve bringing the mouse back outside to where it belongs and setting it free. Be careful, though. If you merely let it go in your backyard, you can bet that it'll make its way to your house again and you'll be back to square one.
Your best bet is to take it a few miles away, maybe to a field of thick grass and brush where it can scurry to its heart's content without having to worry about it coming to your home again.
I have an effective mouse trap. It’s called a cat. Mice,in a homesteading situation is such more than just a nuisance. They can get in animal feed, people feed, destroy electrical wires, breathing their dried droppings (such as in heater vents) can cause breathing and health problems.
If you have the luxury of trying humane and non lethal measures, great. Me? I’ll keep my ranch cats.
Cool. Saves me 7 bucks each to feed my snake.
Colten
Your killing a rodent who gives a crap about humane or non lethal
Hmmm. Mouse stew!
Matt Nichols Coty Thompson here y’all go
Trap then shot with .22 throw in trash
Or dump them in a bucket of water and watch them drown! Lol
That’s far too inhumane. That would really upset them being trapped in that plastic contraption. You are supposed to leave a polite note telling them that they might not be welcome in your home and if they wouldn’t mind too awful much, maybe go to the neighbors house……….. Well, I will say just one thing – if the SHTF and you are trying to protect your supplies from those destructive, disease ridden vermin you will probably blast them with a shotgun.