In my view causing suffering to any living being is not a good thing if it can be avoided. A few years ago after all our cats finally died we got overrun, in the course of a summer he caught about 130 mice in the humane trap he invented. He took about 400 feet away to the end of the property. We think they came back... thus driving about a mile away to a good spot was the plan. Now we are overrun again and I’m going to find two cats to adopt.
Dangerous or poisonous creatures different story. Or cats...it’s their job to take care of rodents!
I tried the humane catch & release mouse traps once. We are on a farm so mice come with the territory. I hate to kill anything so each time I dutifully walked that trap 1/4 mile to the back of the property to turn them loose. I finally realized I kept catching the same mouse with the same white spot every time.
My Feists are better than most cats for killing mice but we still resort to the lethal traps. No poisons.
And then there was the time my Blackmouth Curs treed a Coon in their fenced yard. No way it was coming out of that tree with the dogs trying to climb the tree. My husband was ready to get his gun but I put the dogs in another yard and put out a live trap. The Coon was in that trap before I got back to the house. We put it in the truck and turned it loose three miles away. :-)
Completely agree. That's one reason I'm always kind to the cats in my neighborhood, even the ferals. They're excellent hunters, and they dispatch mice much more quickly, efficiently, and (dare I say it) humanely than poisons or most traps.
Wait ... being eaten by a cat doesn't count as suffering? It's OK if you hire someone to do the dirty work? ;-)
Please pass to anybody with cats. Ty
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