Specifically when someone kills them when they enter their home.
People be saying like “Don’t kill them!” ………… NO!
Mice can harbor diseases, mice pee and defecate everywhere, mice can eat through the furniture, mice eat people’s food without their consent.
I. Don’t. Care. I’m gonna cleanse them from my home through any means necessary, even if it may be painful for them.
Mice. Are. Parasites. They LEECH off you. They LIVE off you.
People also say “Just kick them out the house alive!” Why? For what? For them to just come back again? They will come back.
I don’t actively wish harm on these dirty, invading creatures. But I WILL NOT tolerate them in my home.
This applies to rats too.
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They chew threw wires and eat your food plus can contaminate things with their feaces and urine
When I had a mice problem years back I used snap traps. I’m not catching and releasing VERMIN.
I wouldn’t ever use glue traps and the like, but yeah, fuck CNR on vermin. They’re not fish 😒
I agree with all of the reasons stated above.
But … but Tom and Jerry 🙁 …
This always reminds me of this video: https://youtube.com/shorts/LzAa3ElL0Fw?si=U5SIyWzZJGDzOj72
yeah I don’t go hunting them out in the wild, but once they are in the house they are urinating and devastating and breeding and chewing up stuff. I read they have to be taken 2 miles away or they will come back home to your house. I’m not catching a bunch of vermin and taking them on a nice drive out to the country
I actually don’t think this is unpopular.
There is a loud minority that thinks otherwise though.
Anyone that knowingly let’s rodents, non-domesticated of course, live in their house has a mental deficiency.
As others have stated, they are very bad for your health and safety.
How is this an unpopular opinion? When I lived out in the country I had a micr problem for about a month. Set up those glue traps and then squashed them with my foot. They eventually stopped coming in and I believe there was a nest in one of the walls because every mouse I killed was really young.
This is the exact same reason why i kill people.
I mean you definitely do wish harm upon them, which I don’t care that much- since they are just mice. But don’t like pretend. You clearly want to hurt mice cause you’re afraid of them.
Who says not to kill mice in your home?
Even my animal loving wife has no problem with me drowning any caught indoor rodent.
Not unpopular.
I use live traps and drop them far away up in the hills and control the cleanliness of my home and their access to food and guess what?! No more mice. You don’t have to just kill off everything that is inconvenient to you.
I’m not a fucking Disney Princess and they won’t just leave if you ask.
I’m not opposed to killing them, I just hate sticky traps… they’re so inhumane. Snap traps work and they’re quick. Sticky traps are… horrifying, really.
Yes, kill the invaders. They will destroy your home.
Completely agree. I worked at a summer camp and if the mice were trapped and released they returned back to the cabins 100% of the time usually within a few hours or days. They were menaces- pooping everywhere, chewing clothes/backpacks. Waking us up in the middle of the night with their running around and loud chewing. One even chewed through the hose of one of the counselors hiking hydration backpacks. Instant $50 loss.
Not an unpopular opinion. When I lived out in farm country, I used to slay mice all the time 😂
how is this a unpopular opinion. if you keep mice you’re gross
I think you’re arguing against a small minority of people, so this is actually a popular opinion.
Based. Fellow fighter of mice here. No matter what they tell you, there is some of us who will be right there with you fighting these pests. We are brothers now OP
I agree you shouldn’t just allow them to wander around your house but there are humane methods of getting rid of them. Trap and release far from your property.
As long as the dispatching is as quick and humane as possible, I completely agree with you. They breed so fast and in such huge numbers that it’s a lot like having a roach infestation. Once they take over it’s HELL getting rid of them and costly to repair the damage they do. They will make you and anyone living in your home deathly ill, pets and children especially. You aren’t putting their species at risk of extinction by a long shot so don’t feel bad about protecting your home, health and family!
We had a mouse in your house once. We tried to capture it without killing it, but after many unsuccessful attempts, we killed it.
Mice you can walk them over a mile and they won’t come back. I took mine for a long walk to a woods
how is this unpopular?
Who says that? I don’t think this is unpopular at all
I understand reasons people kill mice when they invade your home.
My biggest issue is why do people need to kill them in such inhumane ways. A glue trap is such a slow and painful way for a creature to die. It feels unnecessary to me that they suffer. Even the old school mouse traps can be more humane.
This must be a local unpopular.
Where i live most people kill them, no problem.
Agreed.
I’m not fond of killing critters but rodents can do unimaginable damage to your home if left unchecked, they gotta go.
I think it depends on how you kill them. I used to go the poison route until I realized that I will have to go searching for wherever the mice finally died from it and more importantly, how brutal it is for them. I switched to simple traps and it seems to be the most humane way to kill them. But I agree with you, when you just throw them back outside, 9 times out of 10 they are coming right back in and they multiply like crazy. I’m not thrilled about killing anything, but it’s necessary if they’re getting into your living quarters.
^ This Guy, Probably
10000000% agree
They can also cause a house fire by chewing through electrical wires.
I was with you until “even if it’s painful for them.” Obviously there are limits, but I think trying to be more humane is absolutely better.
That’s why I have cats. Haven’t had a mouse problem ever. Only time I see one is if it’s dead or will be dead very soon.
Outside? My bad, I’m in your space.
Inside? I am taking the nuclear option.
Wait people actually say not to kill them? That’s so dumb.
You can take care of them in relatively humane ways, like a normal person. Saying “even if it’s painful” and the like make you seem like mean and hateful person. Only sociopaths and the criminally insane like to hurt things.
I don’t like having to do it, but I must for my family’s health and safety. We have an older home, so that makes it a fun place for the mice. Our (indoor only) cats might get once in a while, but it isn’t enough.
So I use heavy-duty snap traps and bait them with stuff like Nutella or other very tasty ‘final snacks’. A quick death and critters outside get an easy snack. I do occasionally live-trap and relocate far away, but I can’t do that in winter since they’ll just die in our very cold temperatures.
I will NEVER use glue traps or poisons. Glue traps are just inhumane, as anything trapped in them will take DAYS to die and rip their own flesh and limbs off. Non-target critters get in them too, like birds and whatnot and it can be fatal even if they get free. Poisons can be eaten by non-target animals, and any animal that eats the poison victim will get poisoned themselves, and even animals eating THEM can get poisoned. Plus, poisoned animals can crawl somewhere and die, leaving you with a putrefying animal in a wall or somewhere else you can’t get to easily.
The solution is: cat.
The all natural rodent control system.
Give the lil guy a tracker, boot it outside and monitor to find how it gets back in! Plug the hole, kick bro out again, then everybody happy Lol
I wish this was plausible ngl. It’d be cool and probably better for both parties
lol the last sentence should be your first concern, rats are worse in every way compared to mice.
Pet mice and rats are great when they’re cared for properly. Wild rodents, not so great for all the reasons above along with the inevitable electric issues from chewing.
Hate mice in your house? Get a cat, rats and mice don’t fuck with the scent of cats.
I raised fancy mice and rats at one point. I love the little furry creatures. There are too many misconceptions about them. They are clean and can be trained and they can have big personalities and make amazing pets when they are pets.
And I 100% agree with you. If there is a PEST in my home, it’s a wild animal, and they will get back in if you put them outside.
Fair opinion. We’re spoiled as a species to not often die of animals carrying disease as much as our ancestors did, and better pest management is key.
Vegans are going to hate this
If youve never opened a pantry to hundreds of dollars worth of food chewed into and full of mouse piss and shit you dont really understand mice.
OP is spot on, anything that shits in your food, makes you itchy, or eats you is fair game.
If you have one mouse you have many mice and you will have many more if you don’t kill them. I had a roommate who used to catch them and release them across the street… as you can imagine we had many mice before long. A cat is the best way to address them, 2 cats is better. If you can’t have cats then an exterminator can fix the issue for a price.
We had mice a couple years ago and we managed to get rid of them without killing any of them, at least not directly. We caught them with live traps, then released them in a wooded area, and made sure they had some food and shelter. There was no way to guarantee that they survived of course, and I’m aure many of them died not long after we released them, but we wanted to give them the best chance we could. It wasn’t their fault for simply existing in our house
I don’t care if its necessary or not I just need some violence in my life 🗣️‼️
SURELY this does not apply to RATS–OH! Oh, I see that it does. SURELY this does not apply to capybaras. No? No, they’re safe? Well. thank GOD.
Just take them outside somewhere geez, no need to kill them. They are just trying to live
A snap trap well set kills immediately. Glue traps and poison are both cruel.
They do sometimes set off the haveaheart traps. Those we take to the National Forest like we do the groundhogs, squirrels and opossums. Easy for us. No homes nearby to move into. And a better life than our crawlspace or attic.
This is a reason why I have 2 cats
you needa get a good cat 👍
They wont come back if you close up their entrances and drop them off somewhere far away.
But yes they will come back if you do nothing to keep them out.
They arent parasites. They are animals looking for food and safety just like every other animal on the planet.
This is definitely not an unpopular opinion. Killing mice in your house is literally the reason house cats exist.
I agree.
Although I love most animals I understand that every animal has a place in the cycle.
As long a you’re not purposefully torturing them, I see know issues in killing pests (mice, rats, cockroaches) should not be in one’s home. They are not meant to share living spaces with us unless domesticated or bred. Wild animals carry lots of disease. It’s the right thing to do to get rid as quickly as possible. A standard mouse trap does the trick easy.
Although i appreaciate animals, I can respect them by killing them quickly.
As I am anemic and need the iron, i eat farmed animals too. There’s not much difference to eating a killed chicken to killing a pest.
I see no problem in doing these things, the only issue I have is with large scale industrial farming as the conditions can be poor, but there’s not much one can do about that living in the city on a working salary.
I have never in my life heard anyone claim that they want the mice in their house to live.
Kill them quickly and humanely.
If you see one, there are twelve
Put out several traps and get it over with quickly
That’s unpopular? Aren’t mice one of the main reasons why exterminators exist?
Sounds Ike having kids! Lol! Babies pee and poop every where. Germs! Germs!!! Everywhere!! And you can’t get rid of them. They keep coming back.
Between all the feral street cats and western rat snakes roaming around where I live.i don’t have to kill rats. They do a good enough job on their own.
As a human animal, I have made a nest that I don’t want other animals to be in. I try not to get mad when animals in the wild are just out there existing, even if it’s inconveniencing me. They live their, they have a a right to exist where they live.
it makes me extremely sad but yes it’s necessary
To be fair, I’m okay with killing most things that invade my home.
More interestingly, if you put the mice back outside they will just come back in the house. You need to find their entry holes and block them up! Or you need to euthanize the mice. I had mice, I brought them to the field about 1/4 mi from my house after trapping them with live traps. They were back the very next day.
Not unpopular
I only don’t kill them if they’re easily catchable and I have a way to get them to the woods without massively inconveniencing myself. I’m not trying to rehome a nest of rats in my apartment building, but I’ll capture a mouse for my parents and drive it 20 minutes away to the bayou.
It’s how I justify having cats. They eat the mice and rats. Sorry bout that squirrel that lost its head tho, that one hurt.
You kill mice because they carry disease and piss in your house. Killing mice doesn’t unpiss your house and I don’t care if you line your yard with a wall of mice heads on spikes, they don’t get the message.
Who says don’t kill Mice? Also if you have a mice problem you’re already infected with hundreds in your wall. At that point you get a cat or two.
I’m torn, I’m only suppose to like opinions that I find egregiously wrong. But this is an opinion I wholeheartedly agree with, after reading about the diseases they harbor, and had to give this a like.
I had a family of rats that ate the cat food I had in my garage, then when I moved it inside they could still smell it so they broke thru my lanai screen to try to break into my house. They also chewed through the insulation above my range fan. We set up snap traps and systematically destroyed the entire family of rats over the course of two weeks. I think rats are ADORABLE but an infestation would hurt my children and be hazardous to my health. So the rats switch from Cute Friend to Enemy #1. I had to smash one with a bat because its leg got stuck in the trap and my husband couldn’t bring himself to do it.
At work I found a mouse that had clearly been poisoned… foaming at the mouth, straining, struggling to move… had to smash that one too. I felt TERRIBLE about that. Snap traps are so much more merciful, if you will.
My grandpa’s house burned down from mice chewing on the electrical system.
All these people in the comments too lazy to find and plug the holes in their houses the mice are getting in through.
Yep, when I had mice I tried giving them a chance to leave unharmed but they wouldn’t fall for ANY live catch trap, it was like that for months.
So I was left with no choice but to create a concoction of scraps,peanut butter , sugar laced with the green poison cubes left it out on the floor overnight and within a week, the mice were no longer an issue.
OPs viewpoint is very common in rural areas of the U.S, although slightly more passionate than I’ve heard in person. Field mice try to get inside every year after the fields are cleared. Mice eat your food and nest in electrical boxes and appliances, causing electrical faults. Their feces spread diseases and leave a foul odor. If you see one mouse, there’s another ten you can’t see.
Typically you’d seal up all small openings (around the HVAC line set, chimneys, etc) with steel wool and fire block foam. Even stone buildings have gaps enough for mice to enter. Once trapped in the house, snap traps, poison, or glue traps take care of the mice. Glue traps and poison are effective, but very inhumane. If you seal the house first, the number of mice to deal with is usually quite limited and you won’t have to deal with them multiple times.
The issue isn’t “mice = bad”. The issue is mice in your house causing expensive damage and making you sick. Mice outdoors are fine.
Mother nature is far more cruel and brutal than a mouse trap. Just leaving this here for the “take them outside” crowd.
Only thing I disagree with is glue traps! Mom used those ONCE and I never wanted to use them again. At least the snap traps usually kill quickly. With the glue traps it started with hearing them get stuck, and then endless squeaking, until eventually I had to take care of it myself because I couldn’t do it anymore. Turns out there were two more traps in the house. Found one with a dead mouse, pretty normal, but couldn’t help but think about how slow it probably was. Found one with just a leg, so…
I don’t kill them, I let my cats do it. Not that I wouldn’t, but my cats are much more efficient at it than I am.
So is it an unpopular opinion ? What else are we supposed to do?
The rule is “if I’m in your space, I’ll leave or tolerate it, but when you’re in my space, I will remove you”
Good for bugs, rodents, really any creature.
Nothing will make you loose all empathy for mice and rats like having a mouse or rat problem in your house. Nothing will make you more homicidal towards them either
I was very “I don’t wish harm on them, I just want them gone” until I had a bunch of them when I was living in an apartment. I went from that to wanting to crucify the little bastards and set up a little field of spikes vlad the impaler style. I didn’t, but I did probably kill dozens of them. One ran under my couch and I smacked it out with a broomstick feeling like a damn spear hunter.
Glue traps are still awful, but they make reusable electric mouse traps that zap them, and they work great. Highly recommend them if you currently have a mouse problem.
I totally agree if you’re dealing with an infestation. However, if it’s a one-off occurrence, I think it’s worth looking into what species you’re dealing with. European mice are the most destructive and have invaded many parts of the world. But a lot of places have their own native species of mice that are being out-competed by the invasive euro mice. European mice should be killed on sight, but I would give a native, less destructive species a chance to go and not come back.
My cat spent her entire life indoors but somehow is an excellent mouser. Every time she catches one I always reflect on how cats used to be given as housewarming presents. It was so essential to keep pests out of food stores, and somehow we’ve forgotten that.
If I catch one before her though, I always release it in the field near my house with some food. I can’t stomach the killing myself, and just let nature take its course outside. I live surrounded by fields and a forest so it’s a fools errand to try and keep mice completely out of the house. I just take care to keep my food and clothes safe, and let my cat go on patrol.
You need to bring them at least a mile away for them to not come back inside
I generally don’t like mice at all, so I personally have absolutely zero qualms with killing them. The only issue for me where I start to feel a little bad are with the sticky traps, because that’s a pretty shitty way for anything to die. Especially a mammal, speaking as another mammal myself who’s typically predisposed to feeling more sympathy for my mammalian brothers and sisters. When I was a kid and we had mice my dad would usually just catch ‘em on a sticky trap and throw them in the dumpster to die slowly. This feels especially fucked up to me when there’s more than one on the trap and they’re biting and eating each other while they slowly die of thirst and starvation. Just feels a little too unnecessarily brutal for my tastes, but in my experience sticky traps work infinitely better than anything else to get rid of them. So what I’ve settled on doing is just catching them on the trap and throwing them in a shopping bag, then once I take them outside I’ll stomp the shit out of them to make sure they’re dead before I toss the bag.
I wouldn’t willingly go out hunting mice just for the fuck of it. But if they’re in my house I’m going to have next to no regard for the sanctity of their lives, it’s just nasty.
Please tell me this isn’t actually an unpopular opinion 🤦🏼♀️ Rodents are so destructive. A good friend of mine just had to tear out all of the drywall and insulation in her basement because of water damage caused by a mouse infestation she was unaware of.
I won’t go out of my way to hurt one outside and I won’t use sticky traps, but if I find one in my house it’s going to mouse heaven real quick.
I once killed a mouse after shooting it with a nerf gun. I stunned him with the dart and finished him with a metal hanger to the neck. I have no regrets or remorse, if they enter my home they enter their grave.
So I’m going to talk about this from a little bit of a different perspective. I’m fine with killing mice, I think it’s just a matter of how you do it. Snap traps are fine, generally instant. I’ve seen two times ever where a mouse just crushed their leg and that’s unfortunate, but that’s better than the alternative. Glue traps are the cruelest thing ever.
In my line of work if I’m assessing a property and I tell the owner or potential owner or whatever “this property has mice” they’ll generally ask me if I can do anything about that, and I have this pretty neat trap door thing that fits over a 5 gallon bucket. Put some peanut butter and seeds on the trap door, put some seeds inside the bucket come back in a day or two, usually I have a bucket with a bunch of confused mice. I generally then throw that bucket in my rental and dump it in a field somewhere and let nature do whatever. For me this is better than coming back to empty snap traps a dozen times and finding half eaten dead rotting mice in the traps.
I’ve had a couple people suggest filling the bucket with water and you know what? If you do that you are an absolutely shitty person.
Tldr: I don’t think anyone minds if you kill mice, just be humane about it.
I trap them and take them to a national forest preserve a few miles away. I think you just want to kill things 🤷♀️
I don’t think this is unpopular. There are a plethora of devices made for killing mice and rodents that come in your house at every Walmart and hardware store. I don’t feel good about killing anything, but sometimes you gotta or they take over.