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We finally had a mouse after many years of being mouse free.

Hubby was in charge of buying traps. I preferred the old
"snap" traps, because they are always dead when I have to
deal with the body.

Welllll, apparently the place he went to buy traps was out
of the old fashioned kind, so instead of going somewhere
else - he bought glue traps. How "humane" is that????

I told him as soon as I found out what kind of trap it was
that if he insisted on putting them out that I was NOT going
to deal with the results. Yup! Now we have an alive mouse
stuck to that damned thing. Hubby is trying to talk
everyone in the household into dealing with it (except me of
course, because I made my position clear in the beginning).

I told him initially that if he didn't have the stomach to
deal with mice killed the old fashioned way (I always had to
dispose of the body), this would be a problem and IT IS. He
doesn't know how to deal with a live mouse and I can't stand
the idea of an animal virtually being tortured to death.

I'll cut to the chase... he bought the glue traps and we
have a live mouse caught in a trap now. So, what's the next
step?

Hubby suggested putting it outside and letting the cat have
his way with it. I don't think that's fair. So, the mouse
is slowing dying of exhaustion, fright, thirst and
starvation as I type.

Got any sharpened knives, particularly old ones that you don't really
want anymore? Just take the head off. Yes it'll be bloody, so spread
newspaper out and cut with the head AWAY from you. The blood might
spatter a bit, after all the little mouse heart will keep pumping for a
little bit of time not yet knowing the head is gone.