Ok so i have a mouse or rat in my house.and it has a big butt! and is dark grey.. and its sort of small and medium..Well it lives in my living room closet.And me and my dad blockedthe closest door with wood in the bottom so it cant come out. and yet i was walking to my living room and BAM! i here it chewing trying to get outt.. then i freaked out and ranaway.. It also ate my shirt.. becuase i blocked it with my shirt too and i took it out and it had a hole of size of my hand.. Can mouses do that? or Rats? i cant tell .. Help?
2006-12-30 16:11:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Go to the store and buy something called a "mouse cube" and put a cracker with a little peanut butter on it inside the cube for bait. The mouse will go in for the cracker, but the trap door will now allow the mouse to get out. Set this against the wall of the closet, as mice tend to travel against walls and cabinets, using their whiskers as guides.
You may want to put several cubes out, as you may have several mice/rats. If these are not big enough, I would say you have rats and not mice...
Once the mouse is inside the box, you can take it out somewhere and release it if you don't want to kill it...that's what I did...
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2006-12-30 16:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by libertydogtraining 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rodents can chew through concrete and sheet metal. Shirts would be no problem.
Once I lived in a triplex where my landlord did a plumbing repair from the outside and, unknown to me, left the hole unpatched. I found a torn up stuffed toy and gnawing, and my neighbor told me it was a mouse and taunted me that I "was going to have to kill Stuart Little." So I thought I'd catch the little guy in the act, sweep him into a large bucket and dump him in a wooded park down the street, safe and unharmed.
The "little guy" turned out to be a large female Norwegian rat. Scared the snot out of me.
I didn't have the money at the time to buy a Hav-a-Heart trap, and the humane society didn't have one. I deeply regret having used poison, but glue boards are much crueler.
If I had it to do over, I would call a wildlife rehabber and try to somehow borrow a humane trap, or find a source for one from the rehabber. Or even a domestic rat fancier's club!
A former exterminator told me it was fairly easy to catch mice and rats alive and release them in woods, that you set the humane trap along a wall in its path and bait it with peanut butter or nuts.
2006-12-30 16:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by Petals 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's most likely a mouse, and yes, mice can chew through things very well. I've had great success with this trap in my house:
http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266
I've caught over ten mice with it so far. Yes, it's $12, but it can be used over and over indefinitely. Or, you can try making the free homemade humane trap described here:
http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp
If you do live trap mice, please be sure to check the traps several times a day and release the mice promptly, approximately a mile away from your home. It is much more cruel to allow a mouse in a live trap to slowly starve to death than to kill it quickly with a snap trap. Also, if you use the live traps outside, put a little bedding (paper towels or cotton balls) inside the trap so the mice won't freeze to death during the night. When you release the mice, do it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants. If you are a kind person, you might also leave a little bird seed or oatmeal for them.
The absolute cruelest traps are glue traps. Mice have been known to gnaw off their own limbs and tear off their skin in an effort to escape, as they starve or dehydrate to death or suffocate in the glue. Poison isn't any better, as the mice die slowly over a long period of time from internal bleeding.
Good luck!
2007-01-02 04:45:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hickory Dickory Dock The Mouse Ran Up the Clock.
2016-05-22 22:50:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could be a rat. rats can eat through steel.
go to the hardware store and buy a rodent trap... it works pretty well. I caught a squirrel in my place with it. I think the bait was peanuts.
you can release it somewhere away from the house. and find the hole where the rat/mouse came in from. My squirrel came down the chimney.
2006-12-30 16:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by professorminh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
calm down go to a store set up some mouse traps i doesnt matter mouse traps will get rats to and wait a bit and it will be dead
2007-01-01 11:48:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say you're dealing with a mouse. Get yourself a have-a-heart trap (you can get them anywhere) and set it free outside in a wooded area.
2007-01-01 11:46:35 · answer #7 · answered by the_maverick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glue traps are the best method to trap rats and mice.
I found detailed information at http://www.pests.in
2007-01-01 13:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if u have a mouse or rat in ur house then bye a cat so the cat would chase the mouse or rat!!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-30 16:53:10 · answer #9 · answered by Pimp 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL yes thay can. Who is bigger YOU or the mouse? Catch it and put it outside.
Now if it is a spider,.... THEN RUUUUUUUUUUUUUN~ I know I would.
2006-12-30 16:18:26 · answer #10 · answered by dbzgalaxy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋