Mice in cabinets?

Question

I refuse to poison or kill them so don't even suggest that. How can I catch them to set them free outside? Do glue traps work and if so, how does one unstick the poor mouse?

OK..I just read that the mice will not survive a glue trap. Does anyone know where I can find Live mice traps (catch and release) mde by Victor? I know I can order them online but I'd rather get them at a store to start the catching today.

I do have cats...4 of them! The cats however don't get the ones living in my cabinets.

UPDATE: I got a few catch and release traps for a few bucks yesterday and put peanut butter in them. This morning I caught 3 mice...all alive and well and now free far from the house.

Answer 1

THANK YOU for being kind to the mice! I just released one far away from my house this morning, too. I've had great success with this trap:

http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266

I've caught over ten mice with it so far and it can be used over and over indefinitely. There is also a free homemade humane trap described here:

http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp

For people who don't know, 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. It can take three to five days for them to die. If someone here has a live mouse caught in a glue trap right now, you can pour vegetable oil around the mouse to loosen the glue and then push the mouse off the trap with a pencil. Of course, this is messy for you and terrifying for the mouse, so it's better not to use glue traps in the first place. Poison isn't any better, as the mice die slowly and painfully from internal bleeding. It can take up to a week for them to die, and then they smell as they rot behind your walls.

Again, thanks for being kind. I'm sure the mice appreciate it. :)

Answer 2

Glue traps just stick the poor mouse until it dies a tortuous death. There are no kill traps where you can release the mice but remember they will be back. Try getting a cat. The cat will chase and kill the mice at first but after the initial mice are gone they usually don't come back. That's what happened in my case and I lived behind a big field with lots of field mice. Good Luck.

Answer 3

NEVER USE GLUE TRAPS. They are CRUEL. When I was younger we had some mice around and my parents set a glue trap and the mouse got stuck. And I mean stuck! It was flailing and struggling and it broke it's leg trying to get free. It had been stuck in trap panicking all night. I was so upset about the poor mouse.

I'm sure there are some humane traps that won't kill them.

Answer 4

Glue traps work, but are not an option if you don't want to harm them. You'll have a frightened and angry mouse on your hands when you try to free them and they'll bite you and you'll injure thme if you do manage to pull them off the paper.

Any kind of poisoning or trapping won't work in the long term, anyway. If you kill 10 mice, 10 more will be born to replace them. If you trap and put them outside, the'll just come back in.

You've got to remove their access to food and water. Nothing in boxes or bags. Get containers, preferably metal, to put things in. Remove any contact paper on the shelves,and clean the surfaces thoroughly as mice will eat the glue that holds it down.

But even then, they will try to nest and store food in clean dry places.

Sheesh, I once lived in a log cabin in the woods and the mice ruled the place. Continually opening a drawer to ffind a pile of feces and urine on a piece of my underwear, or taking my boots out of the closet and dumping out a pile of corn (and feces) that they had gotten from a nearby field and stashed away.

I got a cat and let her do her job and just accepted the fact that they were a nuisence which came with living in a beautiful and rustic place.

Maybe you should just move, lol.

Answer 5

First you have to find how they are getting in. You can get rid of every last one just to have more come in. I bought little black boxes that supposedly would lure the mice in, then a door would shut and then you could take the mice outside and pull the bottom off and they would scurry away - got them at walmart I think. Didn't catch a da** thing! If you don't want to poison then then you have to find these box things, but make sure you seal off the entrance to the cupboards first!

Answer 6

Glue traps are the most inhumane way to deal with pests. Cause once it is on the trap it can't be removed and then suffers a long death or starvation or exposure to the elements. Traditional traps are more humane cause it kills them quickly. Go to a hardware store and they have humane traps that don't kill the pests but actually just captures them. But if you let them loose anywhere near your home/apartment they will be back. Plus the capture traps typically don't work as well as you would like.

Answer 7

Glue traps are the best method to trap rats and mice.

I found detailed information at http://www.pests.in