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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,158

    garrett_3d said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    carrie58 said:

    Complaint : Discovered I have a smart furry free loader last night ,set out a sticky trap with peanuts for bait behind my micro ,got up this morning to find the trap on the floor ,below the micro covered in fur but the peanut shells were empty and no furry friend ,need to try a bigger sticky trap I think

     

    I tried sticky traps for little furries, once.  But after you hear their paniced screeches for an hour I decided a quick "SNAP" was more humane and relieves me of personally dispatching the critter.   I have an overgrown garden plot that conveniently hides the corpse and feeds the bugs too.

    You need a pussycat yes 

    Which will catch mice outside and bring them inside, given half a chance. Two cats back used to catch baby rabbits and then climb up the trellis on the side of the garage, leap out to hook her paws into the gutter, swing up on to the garage roof, and come in through my side window with a muffled but triumphant meow to let us know she's snuck another live one in.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,300

    carrie58 said:

    LG I've had no luck with snap traps ,I haven't had this issue in a couple of years (that I know of) but I use to have a dedicated bucket to drown the ones stuck cause I didn't want to leave them alive stuck to the trap......and yes the squeeking was sad ,and I'd cry every time I had to drown one ...... my kids thought I was nuts ......might be who knows ......also thought about just keeping them in a cage ,but that would just encourage more furry freeloaders ....... maybe I should get a pet snake ....... naaah ....now to get a bigger sticky trap oh and some peanut butter and corn bread  mix  to mix with baking soda ......so much fun ugh!!

    Hmmm..., well then, you must have clever mice.  I'm sorry for you.  Mine are apparently not so clever.  Although,  I use peanut butter and I keep putting the three traps in the same three places (near stove, behind trash, silverware drawer) and they stumble into one of them.  Unfortunately it seems to be more often than not, my silverware drawer.frown

    I have recently started using mint fragrence packets under my sink area (which I think is where they are entering).  Designed as a mouse deterent, supposedly.  They seem to be working, and the undercabinet smells minty instead of musty but haven't seen a mouse in a while.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,149

    garrett_3d said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    carrie58 said:

    Complaint : Discovered I have a smart furry free loader last night ,set out a sticky trap with peanuts for bait behind my micro ,got up this morning to find the trap on the floor ,below the micro covered in fur but the peanut shells were empty and no furry friend ,need to try a bigger sticky trap I think

     

    I tried sticky traps for little furries, once.  But after you hear their paniced screeches for an hour I decided a quick "SNAP" was more humane and relieves me of personally dispatching the critter.   I have an overgrown garden plot that conveniently hides the corpse and feeds the bugs too.

    You need a pussycat yes 

    The problem with that is I have open cupboards which means the cat would ignore the mice while emptying the cupboards onto the floor ,plus my parrot wouldn't be happy ,of course he's not happy about the mouse either .

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,149

    Richard Haseltine said:

    garrett_3d said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    carrie58 said:

    Complaint : Discovered I have a smart furry free loader last night ,set out a sticky trap with peanuts for bait behind my micro ,got up this morning to find the trap on the floor ,below the micro covered in fur but the peanut shells were empty and no furry friend ,need to try a bigger sticky trap I think

     

    I tried sticky traps for little furries, once.  But after you hear their paniced screeches for an hour I decided a quick "SNAP" was more humane and relieves me of personally dispatching the critter.   I have an overgrown garden plot that conveniently hides the corpse and feeds the bugs too.

    You need a pussycat yes 

    Which will catch mice outside and bring them inside, given half a chance. Two cats back used to catch baby rabbits and then climb up the trellis on the side of the garage, leap out to hook her paws into the gutter, swing up on to the garage roof, and come in through my side window with a muffled but triumphant meow to let us know she's snuck another live one in.

    yup yup

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,149

    LeatherGryphon said:

    carrie58 said:

    LG I've had no luck with snap traps ,I haven't had this issue in a couple of years (that I know of) but I use to have a dedicated bucket to drown the ones stuck cause I didn't want to leave them alive stuck to the trap......and yes the squeeking was sad ,and I'd cry every time I had to drown one ...... my kids thought I was nuts ......might be who knows ......also thought about just keeping them in a cage ,but that would just encourage more furry freeloaders ....... maybe I should get a pet snake ....... naaah ....now to get a bigger sticky trap oh and some peanut butter and corn bread  mix  to mix with baking soda ......so much fun ugh!!

    Hmmm..., well then, you must have clever mice.  I'm sorry for you.  Mine are apparently not so clever.  Although,  I use peanut butter and I keep putting the three traps in the same three places (near stove, behind trash, silverware drawer) and they stumble into one of them.  Unfortunately it seems to be more often than not, my silverware drawer.frown

    I have recently started using mint fragrence packets under my sink area (which I think is where they are entering).  Designed as a mouse deterent, supposedly.  They seem to be working, and the undercabinet smells minty instead of musty but haven't seen a mouse in a while.

     Just ordered some mint packs as well as peanut butter and corn bread mix to mix with baking soda ,though I'm kinda afraid that will cause little mouse corpses where I can't get to them ......

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,587
    edited 3:58AM

    Electric mouse traps, friends. If you're not doing catch-and-release, This Is The Way. 

    It's a plastic tube with a mouse-sized entry point at the end of one of the long sides. The kind I have uses batteries. (You can get ones that plug into the wall, but then you can only put it near a plug. Which... not convenient.)

    You turn it on, the light on the top blinks a couple times to let you know it's ready for service, and it sits there until a mouse smells the bait and crawls in.

    ZAP! Fast, effective, and as humane as possible. If there's a moment of pain or fear, it's brief.

    The light blinks every ten seconds when it needs to be emptied, and I take it down to the garage can and close my eyes as I pull the top off and let the mouse fall out. (I'm a softie, I cry if I see it; the soft 'plop' as it hits the trash bag is bad enough.) So it's a nearly zero-contact disposal. 

    Also, no cleanup necessary. I used mine all last winter, and it never once got icky inside. 

    Rebait (I use half of a cracker), put the top back on, put it back out, ready for the next one. Once in a while it gets confused and is still blinking, but turning it off and on again fixes that.

    Battery usage seems to be minimal; I didn't change and it was still working as spring came. (It's 2 or 3 AA or AAA, I can't recall exactly.)

    ETA: my little stinkers are clever and often escape the live traps a few times before I manage to get them. I've never had one get the bait and get out of the electric kind. 

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