Quote Originally Posted by rebgirl420
Obviously, but they are living, breathing, feeling things. Respecting life, especially an innocent little mouse who is only doing what you would be doing if you were him, is what seperates us from the more basic primates.

Put yourself in his shoes (yes, I know mice don't wear shoes), would you want to be needlessly tortured before you died?
Yeah, I'd say a fellow critter deserves either a live trap-and-release or a quick, clean kill. I don't believe in cruelty.

But I do consider my home to be my "lair," and woe be it to any univited creature who ventures into my lair! Bwaaaaah-hahahaha! I won't torture it, but I do reserve the ultimate power of life and death within my tiny realm. I put spiders outside when I can catch them, and I squicsh them when I can't. And if I could trap and release a mouse without much trouble I would do that too. I just heard that the live traps are less effective, and you really can't have mice running around. There are some serious health concerns about that.