Best way to catch mice? No poison, have dog.?

Answer 1

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 (or be terrorized by your dog) 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.

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!

Answer 2

Use the little rocker traps. The mouse goes in after the bait. ( Peanut butter works good) and the trap tips and closes the door. You then can take the mouse out side or do whatever you wish with it. It cannot hurt pets as there is no snapping spring or any poison. Wal Mart has them.

Answer 3

Mouse traps with peanut butter or get a bucket, fill it 1/2 full of water, secure a small board (paint stir stick work) on the edge of the bucket so 1/2 the board is inside the bucket and 1/2 outside (balanced on the edge), place peanut butter on the end of the stick inside the bucket. When the mouse walks out on the stick, the stick tilts, mouse falls into water and drowns and the stick balances again and the trap resets itself.

Answer 4

I have pets and for sure don't use poison. I use those live traps you can buy from the hardware store. I don't like to kill anything if I don't have to. Since it is cold outside, I have some in my basement. I catch them in a live trap and then release them far away from the house.

Answer 5

Try using sticky tape sold in a hardware store. Put it where you know the mice come in and they will get stuck. Unfortunately you might find them alive. And also I have found that the mice become "smart" and find other places to come in. At the entrance where they come in put some steel wool. Good luck!

Answer 6

Make a trap. You can use a box and rope and a stick. put some cheese on the floor under where the box is whe he goes in there he will trip the stick and the box closes on him. I just hope he is not quick enough to run, or he is not a smart as you

Answer 7

If you think you know where they are entering the house or what some of their travel paths are you can use the sticky pads. of course if your dog will be able to get wherever you would have place poison, it will also become decorated with sticky pads.

Answer 8

This may have a gross out come, but my mother use to take those steel cleaning pads[not the soapy brillow pads] and put peanut butter in them, the rat eats the steel and it cuts the organs and it bleeds to death. Sorry it's so gross, but chemicals do the same thing.

Answer 9

Mouse traps baited with Peanut Butter. Put them under your sink.

Answer 10

Get a cat or use a trap with cheese or peanut butter. They also make traps that keep the mouse inside and you never see it. It's still gross!