That's why. An ugly thing for a parent to require of a child!

It is confusing as not all mice are disease ridden, they sell them in pet stores and labs use them, etc. It speaks well of you that you have not hardened your heart toward living animals just because, growing up on a farm, it may be necessary to kill them.

We had a mouse in our wall a couple months ago (I have two cats) and it came out and startled me and I got my husband working with the broom to get it outside but, by the time he was able to, he'd bashed it pretty badly so it probably did not live and I think there were babies in the wall (the cats started listening again intently in a couple days).