Ugh. I think I have a mouse

:puke:

Someone left little "presents" near the stove. Damn. Knew I should have gotten a cat.

So anybody got any good ideas about mouse removal? Ethical or not, I'm not squeamish.

All those mouse traps - well even if you are not squeamish - it's just sad because they suffer for so long. A cat will toy with it, I know, but it just seems less cruel to me.

Plus, I think mice know their way around traps pretty well...IMO

not much chance I'm going to find a cat in 24 hours. I mean, I like cats. Love them in fact. But choosing a furcompanion si a decision that will take too long for this particular event.

Either way, this little visitor is not staying, especially not to set up housekeeping with me. :P

or the new plastic "cloths pin types" relatively fast and usually lethal.

bait with peanut butter and a little chocolate or bacon. If you see one, likely there are around 10 more.

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If you see one, likely there are around 10 more. Great, just what I needed to know.

Yes, I have heard peanut butter works really well. What are the clothespin ones? I've never heard of those.

" Quick Set Mouse & Rat Traps

Very easy to set this trap and to bait. It sets and releases with one click."

Squeamish has little to do with it...
http://www.abundantearth.com/store/mousetrap1.html
http://www.victorpest.com/canada/rodents.asp#Victor%20Live%20Catch%20Traps


or do it yourself, then you don't have to buy anything.
http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html
http://www.smithsax.btinternet.co.uk/

You can find them at Lowe's for about $19. http://www.victorpest.com/store/product.asp?dept_id=54&pf_id=M252B

Seriously--it repels them.

you might have a stray.. but the ugly truth is usually, there are more. You need to find how its getting in your house. We have had nine since Jan. We caught the first eight by the end of March, found where they were nesting, cleared areas that were suspect to attracting them. One appeared in early June, making it eight weeks between finding any, and none since which has been over a month, this one may have been a stray. I wonder if they can find their way in, from the scent of the others that were here earlier in the year. We've been looking for ways they got in here, and have yet to find it.. I have to say though, I've cleared up so much around the outside of my house and the attic and the basement, that probably wouldn't have been gone through, for an even longer time. (I tried to find a small spec of peace through all of this.)

We caught the mice w/ peanut butter in a humane trap.. they go in and the door shuts behind them.. they get all excited so you do hear it banging around on the floor for a few minutes, then they just sit in there and wait...

We let them go, in a far away distant lake/park area. I used to have two mice as pets as a child, white (salt) and black (pepper).. they were so cute and lived quite a while, playing on the habitrails, so I didn't feel right, killing these mice, although these were walking around my home..

I was uneasy for months, walking around my house at night... I wore shoes at all times.. yuch...

btw.. make noise when you are going to enter a room if you want it to scatter.. I did that.. but the last one (of the eight) we caught in March, literally jumped on my head while I was sitting on the couch watching tv, around 11 pm. I nearly died. We had ten traps in that room that night... of course we got him THAT night. lol

mice suck, when you don't buy them and put them in habitrails.

asked around. Those sticky strips just terrorize the poor things. Pluse house mice will not survive outside (they are not field mice apparently). So what do you do with that glued mouse when you catch it alive? I thought about it all and went with the snap traps that immediately kill the mice. I got two and have not heard much since. Bacon or peanut butter are the best bait I think. I hate, hate, hate doing it... so for now..as long as my cats can keep the little buggers out of my home and only in the crawl space..I'll learn to live with them.

Oh the dumbass songbirds were the ones that sat on the windowsil next to an opening that Evita found to reach her paw outside and grab the birds

Find out what its/their source of food is. Check the cupboards for torn sacks and mutilated packages. Look around the perimeter of the baseboards for droppings and see if they lead in or out at any specific spot. Keep in mind that mice are nearly blind, but their sense of smell is incredible. If you've got redolent food smells coming from a crock pot or a bowl of fruit ripening near a window, they know. Put any tempting food products in glass or thick plastic containers. Plug any holes tightly with steel wool. They can chew through quite a lot of substances to get to food, but not steel wool, it cuts their mouths up.

Second, lay a thick track of chlorine bleach around any surfaces you think mouse/mice might be using. People and pets may not like it much, but it's not really harmful. Rodents can't tolerate the smell of bleach and contact stings their skin.

Third, invest in some inexpensive traps, either humane or traditional, both are relatively cheap. And a couple of those ultra-sonic noise makers that go into the electrical outlets really seem to work well.

the critters to the next county, they WILL come back to their nest, which is likely in your house.

Believe me, I went through a month of the catch and release crap a few months ago. They come back to the nest.

Finally I resorted to the old fashioned traps that snap and kill instantly--with peanut butter as the bait. I didn't want to, but that's what finally worked. I killed several that way, and I haven't had one since.