2007-01-16 11:03:53 · 9 answers · asked by Lucy 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
I've had great success with this live trap in my house:
http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266
It’s also available for $2 cheaper here (although I prefer to buy it from the other place since I’m not a big fan of PETA):
https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP200
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. 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. 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!
2007-01-17 13:26:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ewww
First of all mice r rodents...we r not meant to live hand-in-hand w/ them!! They r there because they have found a food source! Clean up the offending areas....d-con makes a new circular trap that the mice...let's just call them "Mickey" walk into but never come out!!
An Old fashioned way is to look for their entrance, cover it up w/steel wool found in your hardware/paint store...they hate that scratchy feeling...and won't come back to that area...
Get a cat...they won't decapitate them but they lay the dead mouse at your feet...the law of nature!
2007-01-16 19:16:21 · answer #2 · answered by Mee-OW =^..^= 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are different kinds of traps...there are the kind where you just catch them and then you have to go and release them somewhere....there is poison...assuming you don't want to pay an exterminator. If you did you probably wouldn't write the question....if there was an easy way, there wouldn't be exterminators.
A Cat or small terrier?
I had a friend who would throw away the whole trap with the mouse, so she wouldn't need to touch it...new traps are cheap.
How about talking to apt manager? Shouldn't they be responsible?
2007-01-16 19:25:18 · answer #3 · answered by julie m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get some political correct, non injuring traps ( at any hardware store) that keep the little fellows nice and safe. Then take them out somewhere like a park or to someone you don't likes house and let the little buggers go. But don't forget about them cause they will starve to death if you don't let them go.
2007-01-16 19:14:15 · answer #4 · answered by ec1177 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get glue traps, but then you have to deal with live mice stuck in them. Something like D-Con would work if you don't have pets who might accidentally eat it.
2007-01-16 20:23:32 · answer #5 · answered by Ginger/Virginia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, now i know this may sound strange but try this. Peppermint Oil....
Just apply one third cup of peppermint oil to about one gallon of water, then mop your house floor with it or if you do not want to do that. apply a few drops of oil into every corner you can find. you can get the peppermint oil that I used from a local vendor( they are the guys that sell oils and incense stuff). From what i understand its the strong scent of the oil that wards them off. I tried it and it worked for while.
See what happens. oh yeah cloves, and Chinese chalk works for roaches if you are on a budget.
2007-01-16 19:33:26 · answer #6 · answered by amarie828 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the newer electronic pest repellers do actually work!! get a good name brand,, the cheap ones just use electricity and make noise that bothers you more than the mouse!!
2007-01-16 19:36:47 · answer #7 · answered by fuzzykjun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D-con mouse and rat poison, from the grocery store.
2007-01-16 19:12:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cayyenne Pepper, put it in the cornes and paces that you notice them, they will leave.
2007-01-16 19:12:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋