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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Those are the ones that... The stereotypical ones with the bar that comes down? Like you see in old time cartoons?

I mean, I guess they can be more humane, provided it doesn't mame the mouse instead of killing it.
gpt
Yep, those are the ones. I've never had a maiming incident with one of them in several years of getting rid of mice, since the mouse is reaching for the food and placing its neck in the snap zone. I've had more trouble with the mice not triggering the trap than the trap going off without catching a mouse (suggesting the possibility of a mouse being maimed instead of killed). The mouse isn't starving to death over some number of hours or days, it's dead within a couple of seconds.

That's just my experience, though.