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Mouse in the house

djfreebase

djfreebase

wayne
My daughter has just seen a mouse in our kitchen, i think it was just a small field mouse. I really dont want to put poison down, has anyone got any humane ways of getting rid of them?
 
I don't know of a humane way.

I have always used a glue trap set with a peanut butter cup. Works every time.
 
I guess you could use a very small live trap. Do they make them mouse-sized?? Then take it very, very far away to release.
 
I get dozens of mice in the house every winter. Tried to use live traps, but the proved not terribly effective. The best luck I've had was to use sticky traps and to check them morning and night. When I find a stuck mouse, I do a cervical dislocation dispose of the mouse in the trash.
 
I actually used just a regular ole mouse trap, ya know the kind that snaps down fast and hard. Well, the traps were hit, but no mouse.... The mouse hasn't come back! I think we scared the crap out of it because I used a rat sized one as well.
 
When i moved into my new house the place already had mice, They was living in the house next door (Its a terraced house) and the one to the right is having extensive work doing on it for the first 6 months it had no windows at all, so became a haven for pigeons and other flying vermin who'd bring food into the house. Food attracted the mice.. We didnt notice mice at first just the odd scratching noise in the walls every now and again. 9 months later and i've lost count of how many the dog has killed.. They've completely ruined the walls aswell. Chewing out old plaster and old mortar. I'll try and get some photos later.

As for humane traps? I tried one of em, left it down for a month it didnt catch a thing.. chucked it in the bin when i chased a mouse into it and the trap didnt go off.. the mouse just ran to the back of the trap turned around and ran back out. I've given up on the humane way now, If i see a mouse it gets trampled on, hit or if i have something close by like a box or something i'll catch it and take it to the field.

Ours started off as field mice too, then the field mice disappeared for a few weeks or so then house mice appeared.
 
we've had this problem too, we used the inhumane traps, the tom and jerry style ones ;)

i don't think they were too inhumane though, the mice we caught were completely crushed by the traps, must have been pretty instant.

We caught nine the first night we put them down, and then caught a few each day for a week, havent seen them since :shrugs:
 
a mini reeses peanut butter cup, cut in half, works VERY well as bait, too. Except I've got my 100# airedale too many times to bait mine now. I just put the sticky traps around tight corners in the stairwell to the basement and just inside the pantry door upstairs. Caught 25 last year and 9 so far this year.
 
Iv been out and bought a few sticky traps, and a few good old fashioned mouse traps. Im just hoping the sticky traps work, i wont sleep at night if iv got to use them medieval looking traps.
 
I had this problem years ago. But it was a feeder, not a wild, that had escaped. Try as we did, we couldn't corner it and catch it. It eventually set up camp behind my couch. This is not a method I'd advise, but it seemed the best solution at the time.

I owned a pair of LARGE ravenous Leucistic Texas Rats. Male at one end of the couch, female at the other end. Took all of about 90 seconds for the problem to be solved.

Mind you, I did supervise carefully, and yanked the couch out as soon as I heard contact to ensure safety. The female won by the way.
 
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