No kill / live catch release mousetraps

I've been using a Victor "tin cat" for the last several days and once I found where they were getting in and out, placed it nearby with a dab of peanut butter inside and viola, eight mice last night. All sent off into the great outdoors.

It has plenty of air holes so you can see through the side if there are any passengers (of course, there is also a version with a clear top). One gave me such a glance...please be kind to our smaller brothers and sisters. They all want the same things we want. Excepting of course for Snooki and Trump to stfu, but you never know, and I haven't asked ;)

Highly recommended!

if you know where they are getting in, close it up - problem solved.


this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine

see any of my previous posts on catch and release, it's just a feel-good, fool-yourself exercise. snap traps are fast, effective and actually much more humane

My attitude about little disease carrying rodents is kill them.

Glue traps are among the most horrific "human" inventions.

Thanks for the killing advice in the above posts, in a "no kill" thread ;):rofl:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9022-bubonic-plague-strikes-los-angeles-woman.html

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/

http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehsphl/factsheet/hanta.htm

i prefer to get rid of the little disease carriers permanently.

To paraphrase John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar": Mice are superior to human beings in that they didn't create atomic and hydrogen weapons.

Bet the people that inherit the little buggers are real happy about that.

they think they are being "kind," all they are doing is causing problems for everybody else

in nature, pretty much ALL the niches are taken, if someone traps a bunch of mice and then releases in the countryside they're just putting the mice in a situation where they will be killed by the local mice (this also happens w. rabbits)

my friend had a country cottage that was falling down and i guess it looked abandoned, shitheads were always dumping animals there, i just don't understand people

kill the damn mouse humanely, don't cart it out 20 miles from home so it can be killed by the local mice and perhaps also spread some city diseases into the countryside before it dies its agonizing death

same for your unwanted cats, dogs, and raccoons...this is not cute, kind, or harmless behavior, and people need to be called on it

unless you're a wildlife officer who KNOWS the territory where the animal is being released, you have no damn business releasing an animal into that environment...YOU ARE A POLLUTER AND A KILLER who wants to feel good about being a killer

just be an honest killer, there is nothing wrong w. killing a mouse that is trying to live in your house, there is a LOT wrong w. fooling around and moving that mouse into a completely different territory where other people and mice already live

Or if you can't lead a horse to water, bring the water to the horse :rofl:

We have a problem with our cats bringing in mice, almost always live and uninjured. We (meaning I) re-capture and release them outside, with the hope that they are a little wiser, and more careful in the future.

We have a Campbell's Dwarf Hamster, that one of our cats captured and released in our house. 'Lucky the Hamster' has been with us for almost two years now. A very sweet little critter, courtesy of our kitties.

"Disease-carrying vermin" means something, guys.

Sadly it's illegal to get rid of them.

Several years ago I placed one and forgot it. When the funny smell got my attention some weeks later, I discovered that what happened to those mice was anything but humane.

I prefer live traps, but my current pest problem is moles. There's no trapping them live, and no humane way to discourage them from opting to live in my yard instead of the nearby woods. Sonic repellents are bunk, chemical repellents are bunk, eliminating grubs won't work (moles eat earthworms primarily), cats won't hunt them, dogs can't catch them. So it's the old scissor trap. At least the moles are already buried when they meet the fatal snip.

At least I'm telling myself this is what happened.

My house became the Underground Railroad for escaping rodents. Big ones. San Francisco has rats the size of Springer Spaniels.

Now, I hate rodents. Hate 'em. I'd rather deal with reptiles, than get anywhere near those plague-carrying vermin. So I tried the Live trap. They escaped. I tried the Sonar. They adapted. Then the guy in the Garden Store told me to get the glue traps, and just the thought was so horrific, I almost slapped him. Especially since I'm a vegetarian, I can't just kill a critter cuz I don't like it.

But guess what? There are plenty of carnivores who will. A nice terrier, providing you don't mind having your garden dug through to China. Or in my case, I did what the ancient Egyptians and Phonecians did: adopted a cat. Now, that comes with its own set of issues, like now I have to genuflect to her 5 times a day and reassure her that I understand she is a Superior Being and I am a Mere Supplicant, but it's better than dealing with Willard and Ben. Kitty didn't even have to kill them--one scent of her presence and they took off like--well, rats leaving a sinking ship. So I don't live there anymore, but Kitty came with me to the new house and has spread her protective Mojo there as well.

I advocate that solution over all others!