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Evil Sprite Can
Oct 23, 2008
Is there a reason drowning isn't an option?

e: My company uses Orkin and Orkin refuses to use any traps that aren't sticky traps in our houses. I usually sabotage the traps with oil, but occasionally I'll get a call from staff freaking out about a screaming mouse stuck to one and I just tell them to drown'em in a bucket of water.

Evil Sprite Can fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jun 26, 2016

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Evil Sprite Can
Oct 23, 2008

Sock Weasel posted:

...Because drowning is also a horrifically inhumane way to kill something? :v: (Also generally speaking if someone can't handle dealing with a screaming animal in a sticky trap they're probably not going to be able to drown it.)

Bagging & whacking it against something solid by someone who is willing to go all in is the quickest way to go.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that bag and whack is the way to go and thankfully I've only had to do it once. However I don't see how drowning, as a second option, is less humane than not doing anything when you don't have someone willing to whack, chop or smash.

I didn't mean the oh-my-god-that's-so-sad freaking out, I mean the oh-my-god-that's-so-gross freaking out. I've told them they need to kill it one way or the other and drowning is apparently less gross so that's what they pick. With gloves, a round bucket and a dinner plate it's low effort and over fairly quick.

It's better than being thrown in the trash half alive.

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