Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine or advice forum.
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions, identify objects or get advice. We accept very few questions, and they must be over topics much more difficult than what is easily discoverable with a search. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. Not hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
8. All polls must have an "Africa, by Toto" option. Why? Because we hear the drums echoing tonight.
view the rest of the comments
Live traps work pretty good. Then you get a brief visit and can release outside.
Stay clean and don’t inhale the poop or pooticulate matter.
My understanding is that if I release them outdoors here in the city, they'll go right back into someone's house. If I release them in the middle of nowhere, they'll die. A friend of mine tried keeping a captured mouse in a cage, but although he took good care of it, it always appeared to be terrified and died after a few weeks.
I'm willing to put in effort to protect animals (I've been a vegetarian for 18 years) but I think that catch-and-release mousetraps would just move the ugly part out of my sight rather than avoiding it entirely.
I hear ya. I live trapped under my sink and got like one a day for weeks and released outside (rural 100 yds from the house in tall grasses). Thought I’d scored a happy wife no longer asking me to kill the countless mice and didn’t have to kill.
I ended getting kill traps and killed maybe three, because it was the same mice just returning I’m sure via the magic animals do.
I would probably disagree with the idea that actual wild release would be a death sentence. I think mice would be just fine, or at least have a legit chance. But alas such things aren’t really feasible anyway in the city, and there’s health concerns transporting that far, and so on.
Hope you get out someday!
Fun fact: mice can travel upwards of 2 miles to find their way back to a habitat they've been removed from
https://wypestcontrol.com/do-mice-come-back-once-released/
Mice don't live very long even under the best of conditions.