Why are people so concerned about these things? Their pests and people just want them gone. If they don't want to die, they shouldn't invade your house!

#33 Because they're animals too, and they can suffer and feel pain just like we do. To most people the lives of mice or other small animals don't matter because they're "not important" but try to think of something besides yourself and realize that no animal should be put through cruelty like a glue trap. Snap traps look horrible but they kill effectively and without the suffering of glue traps. (Another alternative are the catch and release traps that #28 mentioned). Besides, mice don't understand that they "shouldn't" come in to people's homes... They're just doing what will keep them alive, it's natural.

Well I hope you released then more than five miles away because if it was "near" your house they just came right back to ya. To hell with 'em anyway. Those scurvy vermin carry too much disease for anyone to really care about their lives.

35 I do think about things besides myself so let's look at this in that light. The time you spent worrying about how a mouse lives and dies and the money you spend to do so could be used better by doing something like helping a homeless person by buying them a meal or helping them maybe find a job. I just don't care about rodents or birds that don't really help most people and just shit on people and make noise.

#40 Sorry that instead of buying glue traps I buy snap traps to kill the animal quicker... I don't see at ALL how that has anything to do with me giving or not giving money/food to homeless people. I guess you don't care about the rats they train to find land mines? Or the rats they train for search and rescue missions? Right, I forgot - they're just rodents. (Rodents, coincidentally, that are just as smart if not smarter than many breeds of dogs). Finding ways to not be cruel to animals doesn't take up a significant part of my life and it certainly doesn't take away from money or food I give to those who are less fortunate than I. But I do hope you will look at this a bit differently and realize that just because you think a mouse is worthless, it doesn't mean they don't have feelings.

I love you #49, we have similar views on animals. The way that I'm going to take what # said is that just because it's an animal it doesn't matter if we kill them. But humans, ourselves are animals. So if that's how you feel about something below you, then you should feel the same way about something that's equal to you. There's laws for a reason and regardless of how you feel about animals, those laws should apply to every single type of law. if you don't agree, that's like saying that a law against stealing is only meant for one race and every other may steal no questions.

Except the whole point of rats for land mines is they're too small to set off explosions, and for search and rescue, small enough to fit into places that might injure others. It's not like they're being mistreated.

I'm right behind you 49. People are literally proud of their lack of empathy for a living creature and it's unbelievably pathetic. I use snap traps. Glue traps are extremely inhumane and horrible. Those of you behind torturing mice should be ashamed of yourselves.

#66 No, no I wasn't saying at ALL that they're being mistreated. I was saying that they're intelligent enough to be able to be trained to do these things, and I was asking the person I was originally replying to if they considered them "just rodents" (even though they are doing the same jobs as dogs, which people don't consider to be pests) and didn't care about them either.

It's not that I'm "proud of torturing animals." It's that I don't care how they have to be exterminated. Also humans are better than animals or else they would Ike over us and it would be the other way around. I don't understand how people can preach their views but as soon as someone says any views that don't agree with it, they have to try to find flaws in mine and hate me for it? I didn't personally kill any rats or pigeons but I just don't worry about how I would have to if it came down to it so it's just an opinion.

We're better, but the only solution we can find to a largely human created problem is to kill. Much like we do with other humans. Maybe you should reconsider "better"? It takes no effort to use a faster killing method. And when you consider abusing animals is 1/3 of the homicidal triad, maybe our empathy towards animals is more telling than you'd think. Sadly we've screwed the balance so badly and make so much rubbish to attract them that we do need to control populations, but everyone should do their part to make it as humane as possible - and stop being so dirty as to attract them to begin with.

#78 I don't hate you, I just don't really respect you or your opinion as I find it rather disheartening. I've owned pet rats and they were the sweetest, most lovable little rodents I've ever met. I'm going to school to be a vet tech, so loving animals is part of my job description. ;) Honestly, though, I have more of a connection to animals because they're pure of heart and don't do things to be cruel to others, as many humans do. I don't mean to get in anyone's face, but I think all animals deserve more respect than many people give them.

Um, try DEFINITELY not the most humane thing to do. Suffocation is supposed to be a pretty terrifying way to die.

If you can't think of a way to save it's life at least make the death as fast and painless as you can. Break it's neck or decspitate it like they do with chicken. What you did is just plain cruelty. Same goes for glue traps. I didn't even know they existed for anything larger than moths. I'm actually horrified at that thought. I understand that life traps don't work for everybody as it takes quite some effort to transport the mice far enough so they don't come back at a daily basis, but snap traps are as easy to handle as it gets, you can just throw the mice in the trash, and they kill really fast.

#84 use something sticky, like peanut butter or nutella. Also, did you use those traditional wooden traps? There are plastic ones that work better. The bait is less easy to access, and the aim at the neck even better.

You might be surprised. It can't be hard to pick up a plank and throw it into thrash?

And you might also be surprised that if you undo something that an authority figure in your home sets up, it usually ends in trouble.

Oh yes, because avoiding getting in trouble ever has changed minds of people. Come up with good arguments to your parents and I bet it will get them to think.

70, you have to respect authority when you undermine them. Come up with a logical response please. It was not the OP who put the traps up. It's not his fault.

So are idiots, but we don't trap them and leave them to die a miserable death. We give them television shows and millions of dollars.