Mice!

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I have a mouse as a pet, and it’s fine, it’s in it’s cage, always running on it’s little wheel. Mine started to bite though, so now I can’t handle it often.
 
Update: we only seem to have ONE mouse, left over after dh plugged all attic holes with styrofoam last year. I distinctly remember seeing a tiny mouse escape under the staircase (all the others were thrown out or eaten by a visiting cat). Now he’s all grown up! 😃

I’ve studied his movements and will put a single humane trap into the cupboard he frequents, throw him out, wish him all the best upon leaving home, and that should be it!
 
paradoxy said:
…I’ve studied his movements and will put a single humane trap into the cupboard he frequents, throw him out, wish him all the best upon leaving home, and that should be it!
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Okay, if you’re going to do that, then make sure you take it at least half a mile (or about 1 kilometer, if you use km in Serbia) from your home or there’s a good chance it may be back. And don’t release it within half a mile of anyone else’s home or business as they will certainly not appreciate that.

It’s so much simpler just to kill it. If you have it in one of those humane traps you can submerge it in a bucket of water, making sure no air bubbles are still inside. It will drown within minute or so.
 
Leopard said:
It’s so much simpler just to kill it. If you have it in one of those humane traps you can submerge it in a bucket of water, making sure no air bubbles are still inside. It will drown within minute or so.
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Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of using a humane trap? :confused:

I would imagine that death by drowning is rather unpleasant. A snap trap would be better.

Or, you could take a look at Mouse RADAR, a better mousetrap if I’ve ever seen one 😉

uk.rentokil.com/services-and-solutions/service-solutions/mouse-radar.php
 
ack said:
Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of using a humane trap? :confused:

I would imagine that death by drowning is rather unpleasant. A snap trap would be better…
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I agree. The purpose of a mousetrap should be to kill mice. The humane mousetrap is a rather useless concept unless you need live mice for some purpose. I used these when I was younger to catch mice for pet snakes that would only take live food.

I don’t know whether drowning is more pleasant or less pleasant to a mouse than a broken neck, but as both methods result in a dead mouse within a very short time either should be acceptable from the human perspective. The snap trap is less work, though.
 
Leopard said:
I don’t know whether drowning is more pleasant or less pleasant to a mouse than a broken neck, but as both methods result in a dead mouse within a very short time either should be acceptable from the human perspective. The snap trap is less work, though.
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One time I had a mouse get caught in a snap trap, but it snapped on the mouse’s back down around the pelvic area and didn’t kill it. So I wound up tossing the trap with the mouse still attached into an old coffee can full of water, to drown it just so it wouldn’t suffer a prolonged death in the trap. http://bestsmileys.com/eek/4.gif Very icky experience, and it just goes to show that the traps don’t always work as we might wish.
 
Tenebrae said:
We haven’t been bothered by mice since a colony of feral cats took up residence in our neighborhood. (On the other hand, we have been bothered by cats.)
In order to be a good mouser, a cat has to be taught how to catch mice by its mother when it’s a kitten.
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Apparently 2 out of my 5 cats missed the lesson that day - they are afraid of mice. LOL!! :whacky:
 
Maybe someone has already said this, but they make these adhesive traps that the mouse will go into and get stuck. Then, you toss the whole thing out, mouse, trap and all. Keep a lid on your garbage can, and the sanitation folk will take them away.

It’s extremely difficult to keep mice out of an old house, though you can certainly bait them to where you want them. I have heard, however, that they can’t stand the presence of mothballs and won’t move them aside to gain entrance. So if you suspect an entry place and can’t stuff it with steel wool, you might dump some moth balls there.
 
Ridgerunner said:
Maybe someone has already said this, but they make these adhesive traps that the mouse will go into and get stuck. Then, you toss the whole thing out, mouse, trap and all. Keep a lid on your garbage can, and the sanitation folk will take them away.
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The problem with those traps is that the mice are left to die of starvation and dehydration. Even though most of us hate mice, I think that’s inhumane. Better to kill them quickly by whatever means than to make them suffer a slow death.
 
CarrieH said:
The problem with those traps is that the mice are left to die of starvation and dehydration. Even though most of us hate mice, I think that’s inhumane. Better to kill them quickly by whatever means than to make them suffer a slow death.
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There is a solution to this too. Usually these traps are in the form of a box open on both ends with the adhesive only on the inside so the trap can be handled with getting one’s hands stuck. So all one needs to do is inspect the traps frequently so that mice are not left there too long, then when one is found just step on the trap and crush the mouse. It is very quick and probably no less humane than a spring trap.

It is best to do this outside though, right where you intend to dispose of the mouse, as there may be a little blood you may not want to get on a good floor. It will not be much though, and it will clean up easily from non-carpeted surfaces if it is necessary to dispatch a mouse indoors.
 
We had mice in the basement of our previous house. I found holes in bags of flour in the pantry area, mouse feces in my husband’s workshop area, stuffing pulled out of a crib mattress in storage in the laundry area, etc. Disgusting. When I found holes in a bag of rice I had wanted to serve to a houseguest, I was so embarrassed and frustrated, I just couldn’t take it anymore. I was literally in tears. My husband got four snap traps from Home Depot, we loaded them with peanut butter, and we caught about nine mice in about two weeks. We even caught two in one trap once. We later found mice droppings in our car parked in the driveway, so we used the traps in the car, too. (Plus, kids weren’t allowed to snack in there for a while.)

We didn’t realize the full extent of the damage the mice had done until we sold and moved out of the house about a year later. The mouse droppings, holes, and rice and mattress stuffing they had carried around the basement… I threw out the crib mattress, of course. But it was so disgusting. I have no sympathy for the mice, NONE, beyond giving them a quick death, of course.
 
I hear that a .22 Long Rifle round will solve your mouse problems in short order…
 
I hear that a .22 Long Rifle round will solve your mouse problems in short order…
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Yeah, but then there’s the clean-up, and the patching of the hole(s) you blew into the house… .177 Crosman pellets & and air-rifle are better!

Seriously, mice outdoors are fine. Mice indoors are pests.

The sticky traps may sound “humane”… but are you going to un-stick the mouse, and release him/her back into the wild (only to have him come back into your house??

Either get a cat, or a gross of the good 'ol fashion snap-traps. Either will eliminate the mouse problem.
 
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