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2007-02-21 03:20:34 · 7 answers · asked by Celeste D 1 in Home & Garden Other - Home & Garden

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Traps. Glue traps and snap traps. Place them along the walls where you see the droppings. Plug all the holes into your home, like where pipes go through the walls. Mice can get through a pencil sized opening.

2007-02-21 05:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by bugs280 5 · 0 0

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 a dozen 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 birdseed or oatmeal for them, along with some shredded paper towel for bedding.

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!

2007-02-24 01:44:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If you are like me, you want them gone but dont want to find little dead mice everywhere. I had a HUGE mouse problem until i bought a few of the black and decker rodent repeller plug ins. I have only seen 2 since we put them in, and i'm positive she found them outside, since i have not found any droppings anywhere. I bought the plug ins at target (they were in the automotive section for some odd reason) for about 10 dollars each, and put one in the pantry, one near each entry point, and one near the fridge.

2007-02-21 03:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anah B 3 · 0 0

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

2007-02-21 13:44:40 · answer #4 · answered by ales 2 · 0 0

Decon. cheap at wallmart, ect. works gr8!

2007-02-21 03:27:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

cats always to the trick.

2007-02-21 04:35:35 · answer #6 · answered by chedderapples 4 · 0 0

get a cat :)

2007-02-21 03:26:17 · answer #7 · answered by socialdeelite1 3 · 0 0

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