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2007-01-07 06:06:58 · 29 answers · asked by starboy 1 in Home & Garden Other - Home & Garden

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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 and 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 some bedding (torn-up 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.

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. 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.

It doesn't take much extra effort to be kind. You will feel better and so will the mice! Good luck!

2007-01-08 02:07:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I am an HVAC technician i work on furnaces. You would be surprised on how much money i make at removing decomposing mice from duct work because the person used poison to kill the mice. Use mouse traps with peanut butter- mice really don't care much for cheese. If touching the traps disgusts you- use a piece of string to move the traps. Spring loaded traps are cheap. Set them in an area that is away from where kids or pets can get their paws or fingers trapped ie behind cabinets, where ever you have noticed droppings. Mice tend to travel along walls and behind stuff- they rarely come out into the open preffering to sneak around. Another way would be to put the traps in small card board boxed loaded with treats and have a small hole so they can get in. just throw the whole box away when trap has sprung. Best thing to do is find out how they are getting in and plug it. Mice can get into a house thru a hole as big around as your little finger. Use steel wool to plug the hole or Great stuff urethane foam.

2007-01-07 14:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by avengergt 3 · 1 0

I got rat/mouse poison that came in small bags filled with little pellets. The first night I left them out they were all gone, so I put out more each night after that until they stopped coming to get them and voila, no more mice. I didn't have to ever see a dead mouse or smell them rotting, it was great.

2007-01-07 14:12:52 · answer #3 · answered by sunny_day_grl 3 · 1 0

buy a cat? something might be attracting the mouse so make sure all food is covered up. if it doesnt go away, you can buy humane mouse trap which catch the mouse and then you can let it out in field or somewhere it wont get eaten.

2007-01-07 14:10:12 · answer #4 · answered by Sianny 3 · 2 0

They make traps that are sticky and have a baited scent so the mice walk onto the trap and get stuck. Put a little glob of peanut butter on it to lure them there faster.

2007-01-07 14:09:14 · answer #5 · answered by dolce 6 · 0 0

a cat or traps with liquorice they love that. dont use the humane traps cause when you let them go they come back. or get some poison called tomcat and put a little down without letting children see (if any ) and not so pets can reach it either

2007-01-07 14:11:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Get a Female cat from a third world country, Make her sleep the whole day, Don't buy cat food and make her work in the night

2007-01-07 14:13:10 · answer #7 · answered by saran_d 2 · 1 1

put some melted choclate in mouse trap it works the best

2007-01-08 15:28:33 · answer #8 · answered by Theresa O 1 · 1 0

snap trap baited with peanut butter gets 'em every time, they can steal the raisins and cheese and other bait, but the peanut butter sticks and they smell it from all areas of the house...draws them like a magnet draws steel.

2007-01-07 16:04:37 · answer #9 · answered by captsnuf 7 · 0 0

Glue traps are the best method to trap rats and mice.
I found detailed information at http://www.pests.in

2007-01-08 10:24:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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