Baker, S.E. 2017. A Voluntary Trap Approval scheme to end trap welfare inequality in the UK, Animal Welfare, 26: 131-33.

Pesticides Safety Directorate. 1997. Assessment of humaneness of vertebrate control agents. Evaluation of fully approved or provisionally approved products, no. 171. A report by Defra and the PSD. York: UK. If you opt for catch and release, take the cage to an unoccupied, natural area of woods or fields, place the cage on the ground and release the trap’s door. The rat will see to the rest. Animals released from live traps will return if released nearby and may suffer and not survive if they are released further away. Once you can see that the kill bar has sprung, you’ll know you’ve caught and killed your mouse, so now to get rid of it; which is where this Rentokil option continues to assist those with more than a touch of musophobia (fear of mice). Thanks to the design of the front tube, the mouse can be easily dropped into a bag or bin without having to even see it, let alone touch it.Lethal overdose of appropriate gaseous or injectable anaesthetic (this technology is not available for general use)

To put it simply, use the food in your house for your mouse trap. Don’t go out buying something specifically for a mouse. If he survived fine with your current food, then that means you don’t need to buy anything else. BASC and Natural Resources Wales. 2016. Grey squirrel control with live capture traps; guidance from the BASC. BASC and NRW, UK. https://www.britishredsquirrel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Grey-Squirrel-Best-Practice.pdf.Rodenticide Resistance Action Group. 2021. Anticoagulant resistance in the Norway rat and guidelines for the management of resistant rat infestations in the UK. RRAG, UK. https://bpca.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Documents/RRAG/2021_CRRU_013_RRAG_Rat_Guideline_2021_web.pdf.

We applied a variety of criteria when selecting the best squirrel traps for our list. A squirrel trap must be effective, so we chose models with proven designs that yield results, as well as those with mechanisms that work reliably. We also included a range of different types of traps to serve different purposes, including humane box traps along with lethal snap and tube traps.

Our action plan for animal welfare. Defra, UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/action-plan-for-animal-welfare. With the date for implementation approaching and a number of the current stoat-approved traps unlikely to be tested against the standard in time, BASC lobbied the government. This resulted in a new implementation plan for compliance of stoat traps with AIHTS.