What are some ways to let my mouse pass on without pain, at home. I researched vet methods and they are painful.
Humane Home Euthanize Methods Help please.?
There are two vet methods. One is through lethal injection. This is fine for larger animals like cats and dogs, but terribly painful for tiny animals like mice. The second method is though gas. The animal is placed in a container, and carbon monoxide flows in, gently putting it to a drowsy state, and killing it. This is painless and best.
However, taking the animal to a vet may be stressful to it and you. There is a way to create a "gas chamber" yourself at home. PLEASE read it through many times before attempting! There's nothing worst than a half dead pet that was your own fault! If you think you can do it yourself, just prepare well, but if you have doubts, go to a vet to have it gassed.
Here's the DIY site http://www.alysion.org/euthanasia/
Reply:Please do NOT attempt to euthanise an animal yourself - it would be far from humane!
Really, the best option (the only humane option) is to take it to a vet.
Yes, there are ways of killing a mouse humanely - eg breaking its neck. Done properly this is instant and painless.
HOWEVER - it is not easy to do it right!
The people who use this method have usually been carefully trained. They will start out practising it on already dead animals and get it perfect before attempting sedated ones. Only after lots of practice and getting it spot on every time are they allowed to cull a live animal this way.
If you get it wrong - which you would - you could break the spine instead, or damage the neck but not break it etc = causing agony for the animal but not killing it.
CO2 chambers are used in labs - until recently they were believed to be humane, but current research suggests otherwise. It is NOT POSSIBLE to gas an animal humanely without the proper equipment and knowing exactly what you are doing.
The ONLY people who should be killing animals are those who are fully trained and competant at doing so. I have seen mice euthanised by all three methods - cervical dislocation, CO2 and lethal injection (i/p). Personally I would not use CO2. Neck breaking I find the most humane, but ONLY when performed by an expert. I can't say the injection seemed particularly bad - so this is what I would suggest.
Reply:Vet methods are only painful if the mouse isn't put under before being given the final dose, usually into the abdominal cavity.
http://www.ratfanclub.org/euth.html
Read that page. I'm not suggesting you try any of those, but its one of the better pages on the options.
If you can get a vet to sedate your mouse with an oral or small syringe, and then give him the injection into his abdomen, he'll slip away quietly. The vet shouldn't charge a lot for that, its usually based on the amount of drugs they use, and for a mouse it wouldn't be a lot.
Reply:Is your mouse sick? My daughter's mice all died at home. One in her hand. They don't act sick, but you can tell when they get old and slow that the end is near. They don't live long. Only a few years at best. If your mouse is sick, take it to a vet and have it put to sleep. That would be the best thing for it.
Reply:Vet methods are NOT painful, the home methods ARE! At the vet, the animals just kind of slip into a sleep and don't wake up. Home methods include injecting them with antifreeze and other nasty methods that are slow and very painful. If you really care, take him to the vet.
Reply:Mice don't live long, just let him die a natural death..
Reply:Why euthanize? It isn't humane, you don't see us putting humans to sleep. But anyway, only quick way I know of is brutal and thats breaking their neck. I couldn't do it to my pets. Only reason I know its quick is dad is in military and they were taught how to break rabbits necks while on their backs. Dad never had to do it, but they have test rabbits (robotish things) that if you do it right, it beeps. They look cool.
Reply:flush it down the toilet its really quick,you wont have to watch.
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