A mouse in the house

And paper under to help collect the mess

Or drop the trap in a bucket of water

No one has suggested hammering it with frozen sausages yet?

Hit them with the biggest chopper you can get your hands on. It’ll be over quick and fairly cleanly.

Tempura yah?

Those big cheese nippers are great. Dealing with our current 5 mouse situation.

Moving some upstairs to make myself mad at not doing it earlier this week

I left them to starve of oxygen and die but I wonder if there’s a better way to put them out of their misery quickly?

I haven’t got the heart to splat them with a brick or a lump of wood.

So it troubles your delicate sensibilities to dispatch them promptly, but you're fine with letting them die slowly?

Have you considered setting-up a Facebook support group?

Or not being so fucking wet?

Kill mice, turn mice in to sausages, freeze, hammer other dead mice with frozen mouse sausage

Nature is so beautiful

This seems the best way if you're squeamish, still fairly quick way to die and you don't have to wash mouse guts off your hands/floor/shoes etc

That's some advanced level shit right there!

I put my first trapped one in a little black plastic bag and stamped on it. Then mopped up the blood from the plinth in the kitchen. Then I had a stiff drink

The second one was a more professional affair with no traces left.

No stiff drink either, it was the day after my dad died, and 6.15am. I probably had a coffee afterwards

What can I say, I’m a fair weather cyclist too

AAAHH ZABENYA!

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DTM

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Just dunk the trap in a bucket of water, it’s quick and not messy.

Well done
Already suggested

Put the trap and rat in a plastic bag and displace the air with helium from a party canister.

They won't even notice.

The risk it, of course, that you end up with floating mice carcasses, and some very traumatised children at the party.

Save them from near death and train them to scare off other mice, develop a lasting, loving relationship with them and post on here when they die, receive sympathy.

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So we heard some more rustling in our cupboard under the stairs last night, set the trap with another monkey nut and when we got home this evening another little mouse had taken the bait. Filled up a bucket with water and chucked the trap in, it was over in about 5 seconds.

Hopefully that’s the last of them for a good while, thanks everyone for the advice.

see if you can find a hole where they are coming in, then fill it with wire wool. And a frozen sausage

So you catch them, don't kill them, then drown them?

Keep placing the trap for a few more days yet. There's always more than you first think.

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A rat ran onto my boat and jumped up into the wall cavity on Weds night. Licked the rat trap clean of peanut butter yesterday. Set the ring of death, and it just tripped two of them. Went to investigate, fucker didn’t die, but scarpered out the door. Door now closed for the first time since March.