We have a mouse in our house which is in the basement. We laid out sticky traps last night and come to find out that he went on one of those traps...and during a long battle, i'm sure, got off the trap. How could this happen? The traps are good, very very sticky and didn't think a mouse that weighs an ounce or two could get off. Theres some hair and some sticky are that's gone off the trap. Please, does anyone have any ideas here?! And I've seen the mouse a few times..he's a little brown mouse...not a rat!
2007-02-23 04:30:21 · 6 answers · asked by cbrkev98 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Use a real frikkin' mouse trap to snap its neck. I doubt the mouse thought the sticky trap was real humane.
2007-02-23 04:36:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they are a pest these little devil´s , you know the sticky glue work´s but I have seen mice and rats eat there little feet to get free from those thing´s & I think the best way to catch them is with the traps , the ones with the sring. If you can fins some Spanish Chorizo sausage you will catch your mouse, there is not one mouse that escape from the trap. we had a problem with mice along time ago , we tried peanut butter , nothing , they did nibble at chocolate but it never caught them, also they hate the smell of peppermint oil and mothballs. But mice only stay where there is a freash supply of food . If you have animals make sure you move there feeding dishes . any food keep in tight fitted containers make sure your not making them feel at home by giving them the old blanket to sleep with . fill up any holes you think they might b coming in through. Hope you can find the chorizo , or some other type of sausage that has a very strong smell.
2007-02-23 12:46:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry to tell you this, but glue traps are actually the cruelest type of trap you can buy. They have actually been outlawed in some countries. 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 you find a live mouse on a glue trap, you can pour vegetable oil around him to loosen the glue and gently push him off with a pencil or spoon into a box, and then relocate him (see below). Of course, this is messy and very scary for the mouse, so it's better not to use the 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.
If you feel you must kill the mouse, please use a snap trap. It's usually much quicker and less terrifying for the mouse.
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.
It doesn't take much extra effort to be kind. You will feel better and so will the mice! Good luck!
2007-02-25 23:09:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If pets are no problem, put out poison baits. They are very effective. It is amazing to hear of a mouse escaping from a sticky-trap, though!
2007-02-23 12:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by Hank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put the traps along the sides of the wall. That's where they do most of their walking. Also put peanut butter on the traps. This way they will more likely walk on instead of around them. Putting traps around the PB trap mean he has to walk on the traps. I don't like using the poison b/c her might die in the wall ugh That get the little bugger.
2007-02-23 12:46:15 · answer #5 · answered by looking4answers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
borrow one of your neighbors mouser (CAT) and put him in the basement for a couple of nights he will be gone.
2007-02-23 12:37:24 · answer #6 · answered by duc602 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋