When you catch mice in a trap, do you throw them away with the mice still attached?

Glue traps, yes.

Snap traps, use the trap again.

The heck with those – you won’t catch many mice, probably mash your finger setting it, and they’re icky when they’re successful.

Either get a cat at the nearest shelter – prevention is the best way of dealing with mice.

OR – and i found this out by accident – use the Titanic Method:

Put a quart bottle of whatever cheap corn oil you can find in a corner of the lowest cabinet or basement, after you have poured off about / cup of the oil. Put the cap someplace for later – you’re gonna need it.

Mice LOVE corn oil, and once they dive in to get it, they die with a smile on their little faces. Cap it, put it in a paper bag, and put it out with the trash. Done.

**PS** Don’t EVER flush a mouse, or you will need a plumber soon. They can jam up the pipes.

I personally would not throw it in the trash still alive. It would continue to eat trash untill it got mashed up by your landfill. The most humane thing to do would be to put it back outside, go to your local animal shelter, adopt a cat, and let the cat painlessly kill the mice. Be warned though you have to be responsible to take care of a cat.

Source(s): Had trouble with mice

If it’s a glue trap. Others I discard the carcass out back in the trash can. The trap gets washed clean and re-used.

No you don’t throw the trap away. We remove the dead body and leave it out for the crows.

You just reset the trap to use again.

Flush the mouse and keep the trap to catch another one.

yes and do the mice fit in a corn oil quart bottle?