Community Chat

[Kachina624]

Here is the latest thing in mouse traps and it's humane. 

[deja vu]

Any time I've had to set a trap I use peanut butter as the bait... I'm sorry to be the cruel extinguisher here. I use a sticky trap on each side of a snap one and all in a row against a baseboard.

I said I'm sorry !!

[PickyPicky3]

I have tried traditional mousetraps, glue boards, and little cages. Nothing works. It may have been bred for trap-avoidance skills as well as appearance. I'm not new to mousecatching.

I prefer not to use poisons.

[itsmagic]

We have had mice in the past but used a service to get rid of them.  It’s true - there is never only one. They can gnaw on wires, etc. in your house and carry disease. 

[hckynut]

@PickyPicky3 

1 of our 3 remaining felines is our mouser, and Lily our canine likes to join in the Chase. The good part is that most of the time he does not break the skin of the mouse. He comes and shows me his catch. My wife can't stand them, but doesn't want them to be killed.

I grab 1 of our paper towels off the roll, and I take it from his mouth and put them back outside. They are very much alive, as I mentioned in another "mouse" thread a while back, I got bit by 1 of them. Cleaned it up good and had no problems from it.

That's my mouse story for today. These are mice the color of a mouse, nothing distinctive about them.

hckynut 

[Sooner]

When you trap and release you just move the problem.  There are enough mice in the world and they carry diseases.  

[hckynut]

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@Sooner wrote:

When you trap and release you just move the problem.  There are enough mice in the world and they carry diseases.  

@Sooner 

 I know that is true. There are also people that carry diseases. From my understanding, mice exhalations are not aerosolized, as are those of the human species. 

C'mon now, have you contracted a disease more often from a mouse or a human?

=^..^=

hckynut 

[Sooner]

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@hckynut wrote:

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@Sooner wrote:

When you trap and release you just move the problem.  There are enough mice in the world and they carry diseases.  

@Sooner 

 I know that is true. There are also people that carry diseases. From my understanding, mice exhalations are not aerosolized, as are those of the human species. 

C'mon now, have you contracted a disease more often from a mouse or a human?

=^..^=

hckynut 

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@hckynut Well, if we compare the amount of contact to the resulting diseases and figure up that ratio, I don't know.  The mice may be in front.

No mercy for mice here!  If you are raised on a wheat farm, they aren't cute.  They can multiply explosively and then you are fighting an uphill and chemical war that might be hard to win.  Especially as cool weather comes around and more try to get in your house or grain bin. 

[eddyandme]

@hckynut 

My Eddy caught two mice:  one in the mudroom, which he proudly  ran into the kitchen with and presented at my feet!  I know I should have thanked him, but like your wife, I don't like mice.  I promptly got the pooper scooper and put it in the woods. 

The second mouse he caught had somehow climbed up the laundry shoot in the bathroom.  He ran into the kitchen, then the mudroom, then his yard, where I caught up with him and made him drop it.  Got the scooper and into the woods.

Sadly both mice were deceased as Eddy's teeth are sharp - so assume they felt no pain.

Though a little handicapped - when he runs his back legs can't hold him up so he drags them - my guy is super fast when he sees a mouse, rabbit, etc.  He's half Cocker Spaniel and I found out that this breed does go after mice, etc.

Ironically, my friends have a huge cat, Grayson.  Grayson doesn't catch the field mice - or anything else - they have to do it!

[Sushismom]

I've used the electronic mouse traps very successfully in the past. Haven't had a mouse in the house for quite a while. None of my cats at the time were mousers. I now have only one cat and I don't think he's a mouser, either.