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I had similiar experience once.
We had an old house...lots of ways for mice into it and lots of places to hide. They used to come up our pipes leading to the washer/drier and then they had the run of our kitchen, usually climbing up to the pantry or living in our kitchen closet.
Anyway, I put spring traps just inside the folding doors with the washing machine where they were in the dark for the mouse but easy to get to.
Well, I was sitting there one day at the table when I heard it go off.
I went and opened the folding door expecting to find a dead mouse with his neck broken, but what I found was a live mouse being strangled to death.
I watched in horror as the mouse struggled, pushing in vain with his back foot to get free.
He struggled for about ten seconds more and then stopped moving.
As I thought about his/her last seconds of life, I actually cried for this mouse.
After that, I went to the store for those humane traps, but I only ever caught one mouse with it (which I released in the park). So with much trepidation, I went back to the proven spring traps and killed the remaining infestation.
As a side note, when my ex and I sold that house, we found the closet littered in the back with mouse feces, so I know I made the right decision in the end.
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