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"How to Catch a Mouse?"
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"How to Catch a Mouse?" |
While putting away Christmas decorations in the basement I discovered a basket of corncobs on the shelf. At first I thought it looked kinda strange and then it hit me. HEY, there used to be colorful Indian Corn on those corncobs. WTF? So I pick up the basket and in the back of my mind I hear Mulder telling me that the truth is out there. And there it was.....Mouse Droppings!!!!! OMG! We have Mice, or Mouse! I need to remedy this situation.What should I use to rid my house of these vile creatures? Should I go with the standard metal spring trap that breaks their little necks? Should I go for the sticky glue box that suffocates them in yellow glop? Should I catch them in a posh little mouse hotel and set them free in the woods behind my house in the hopes that they forget how they got inside in the first place? Or, should I poison their arses and let them die a slow painful death leaving only dehydrated skeletons in the corner? Any thoughts? 
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Emily RugBurn 663 desperate attention whore postings
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01-25-07, 04:14 PM (EST)
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11. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
"It emits a sound you don't hear..."Unless you wear braces. I kid you not, when I was a 12-year-old brace-face, I visited my Nana's cottage and thought I was going crazy. I was the only person who could hear an obnoxious high-pitched hum. Finally, my Nana put two-and-two together and unplugged her sonic rodent repellent thingy and it stopped. Since I was the only person who could hear it, we figured my braces boosted the signal. Brace-faces, beware! 
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Spanky68 8092 desperate attention whore postings
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01-25-07, 03:43 PM (EST)
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6. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
I don't remember if you have kids, but if you have young ones, the spring traps might break small fingers. (and I know you wouldn't leave them in the open, but my little explorers can get into places I NEVER imagined they could go)The poison sometimes means that they eat it and die in very obscure (and smelly) places. We had a rat die in the walls of an apartment we once rented and it STANK something fierce for 2-3 weeks throughout the place. I think that the glue traps are best for small mice. Big traps for rats.
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mrc 10113 desperate attention whore postings
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01-25-07, 04:17 PM (EST)
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12. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
1. Find a cat named Tom.2. Find a cat named Sylvester. 3. Find a coyote named Wile E. Coyote. 4. Buy a shotgun.  Ferociously purrfected by thndrkttn
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Spanky68 8092 desperate attention whore postings
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01-25-07, 04:39 PM (EST)
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15. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
I've told the story on OT before, but for the newbies, here is the recrap:In college my roomies and I had mice in our rent house. Poison got the momma mouse. The young ones came out to forage on their own. They knew to run from us but weren't good at escaping. We killed a half dozen of them in unusual ways. I got one with a plastic baseball bat and a roomie got one with a fencing foil (thinkin of ya, Slice). One of my cruel roomies used a can of hairspray and a match to ignite one of the little buggers (though I don't condone such behavior or the weird odor it creates). I doubt I could move quickly enough to whack a mouse today. That quick lateral 1st step is the 1st thing age robs us of.
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01-25-07, 04:59 PM (EST)
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21. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
Bwahahaha, I love your sense of humor! I was wondering why no one had mentioned a cat yet and here you are. I have cats and no mice but they also tend to go after the geckos and ferrel chickens, which drives me crazy, but we also have a lack of "Palmetto bugs" (read humongous flying roaches) so it's not all bad.Good luck with whatever means you choose to eradicate the little buggers. 
Handcrafted by RollDdice, who rocks my world as much as IceCat. Bouncy by MysticI dont hate mice, only the ones that try to live in my house, they MUST die, mmmmk? Woe's world
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Prof_ Wagstaff 4196 desperate attention whore postings
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01-25-07, 04:43 PM (EST)
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17. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
*sigh*
Fvckin' vermon!We live in the woods. EVERY fall the little rodents find their way into the warmth of our basement. Every fall I wage The War of the Field Mice. It usually lasts 2 weeks, unless they do a surge. Then it takes 3.
I've tried every mouse catching product out there, with the exception of the ones that let them live another day. They can actually get off the glue traps if they have enough time. Even if they're still stuck when you "collect" them in the morning, they are still alive. Nasty little buggers!
I don not recommend poison. They are supposed to get thirsty after ingesting it and head outside. If they choose to die in your basement they will do so in a hard to find spot and will stink to high heaven for about 2 weeks <voice of experience>. The old fashion spring traps work the best. They are usually cheap at 2 for a dollar. Use peanut butter. You'll go downstairs in the morning to a dead mouse and can throw it and the trap away. If they figure out how to eat the peanut butter without setting off the trap, put it on the underside of the lever. SNAP!!!
I caught 4 in one night this year. Aaaaarrrrgh!
Best of luck. I hate them meeces to pieces! 
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01-25-07, 05:54 PM (EST)
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I posted a thread some months ago (maybe even a year now) about this. I don't have the heart to outright kill the critters as they're just trying to find a place to live and stay alive like the rest of us.I went through all the trouble to physically capture the mouse in my house in Malaysia. First, I flushed it out from its hiding place, cornered it, and then talked to it in a soothing voice to the point where it relaxed and let me flip an overturned bucket over it. I slid a piece of cardboard under the bucket to seal the trap, then walked outside for several hundred yards and released it. It gave me a look for a few seconds and then vanished into the underbrush, never to return. Of the options presented so far, for humane reasons, I'd go with the electronic (actually ultrasonic) solution. I don't blame anyone for taking more drastic measures, though, particularly where there's an infestation of them and nothing else works. 
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I'm merciless with cockroaches, though. After one flew at me in a dive-bomb attack and later one crawled over me as I slept in a relative's house, it was war with no prisoners.
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kingfish 20752 desperate attention whore postings
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01-25-07, 09:39 PM (EST)
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Lots of mice catching experience herebouts. Makes sense I guess, with all the feline-ish peeps. Skunks included.For me, the large sized spring traps work best, even for regular sized mice. They can often defeat the small traps. And the big traps wack'em good! But the main thing is to get the after little guy quickly, because if you don't, one will become a brood, and the problem will get out of hand. And no matter how cute they are, the baby mice have to go too. Set several of the spring traps about (no toddlers allowed) peanut butter is good, even regular ole cheese works. Actually almost anything works as bait.
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samboohoo 17173 desperate attention whore postings
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01-26-07, 08:59 AM (EST)
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31. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
Mice are vile and putrid and carry nasty germs. I personally don't find it humane to let them go because they'll end up somewhere else - like someone else's house.I hate 'em. Absolutley hate 'em. I have avoided the downstairs of my house before for days when we had a mouse. I have also been on the verge of moving out. The spring traps probably are the best for all of the other reasons given in this thread (with the exception of the noise thingy, which I've never tried). Peanut butter or melted chocolate is good. It's also very important to make sure you sanitize once the little rodent is gone. SANITIZE, SANITIZE, SANITIZE!!! <-------- says the woman who has thrown out sets of dishes, completely emptied pantries, etc.
Thanks Tribe!Don't blame the coutour.
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Silvergirl1 9342 desperate attention whore postings
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01-26-07, 09:02 AM (EST)
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32. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
First thoughts: Get a cat, ASAP! Don't use those glue traps. The mouse could get caught and cry while it waits to dies. DH said he tried to unstick the mouse before letting it outside and it was horrible. I haven't read the rest of the thread, but if the mice are present in your home, you either have had them run indoors when the door has been opened or you have small holes somewhere in you home that the mice can come in. Check for any holes, and fill them with steel wool, because mice won't try to chew through it. Good luck.  
Did you get any snow in Shrewsbury?
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dragonflies 8051 desperate attention whore postings
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01-26-07, 11:44 AM (EST)
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Funny this is brought up today. We have a mouse problem here at work. A lot of people leave food in their desks, which makes a smörgåsbord for the little rodents. When mouse droppings are found across desks, people go crazy. So our head mouse hunter put out the spring traps. I don't like them, but they are effective, and kill the mice instantly, or so I thought.Earlier this week we've disposed of 4 mice. 1 trap was sprung, but nothing was caught, so we figured 1 was left. This morning our office manager looked to see if there was one in the trap under her desk, and the trap was GONE. So after much searching, we found said trap and dead mouse about 50 feet away, near the door to the warehouse. Poor thing dragged it across the carpet, then finally must have expired of a heart attack. Poor thing.
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StarryLuna 4771 desperate attention whore postings
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01-26-07, 04:28 PM (EST)
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44. "RE: How to Catch a Mouse?" |
Heh heh. We've killed one in our new house so far. It took us almost two months to catch the little bastard though. We first spotted his cocky self in mid-November. Just casually sauntering around the house. DH actually chased it into a closet and tried to beat it with a hammer, but it got away. The next day, he picked up some of the traditional spring traps and some poison. He put the poison under the house when he crawled down there to move some cable lines. I'm not sure if it's killed any mice down there or not. We haven't really had any of that "dead vermin" stench yet. Anyhoo, the mouse did eat the peanut butter off one of the traps by the stove. DH had another trap behind the couch. By Christmas, we still hadn't caught anything, although the traps remained loaded throughout the house. Two weeks after Christmas, my aunt, uncle, brother, and father visited for our annual little holiday get-together. The day they all went home, DH and I began taking down the Christmas decorations. After putting everything away, I vacuumed the living room and spotted mouse carcus in the trap behind the couch. I screamed my head off, for which DH laughed at me. The funny thing is I KNOW that trap was still empty the night before. I remember glancing at it as I was making up the couch for my Dad. He and my brother both slept in the living room that night and neither one of them remembers hearing the trap *SNAP*. I even called Dad and asked him about it and he said "Well, I do remember hearing something weird..." LOL. 
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01-27-07, 09:36 AM (EST)
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47. "Deathcount" |
Mice - 1
Bystander's - 0So far so good! Licked one of the traps clean without setting it off but the second got him. Now, for the rest of them (if they dare)! Bwahahahaha </evil laugh>
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bystander 4968 desperate attention whore postings
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01-29-07, 07:54 AM (EST)
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53. "Monday Morning Body Count" |
Mice - 2
Bystander's - 0In the "Close Only Counts in Horseshoes" category Bystander's finger - 1 near miss So 2, that's it right? No more? Sure there's always more than 1 but its usually just 2, right? 
*crosses fingers for no more missing peanut butter*
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01-29-07, 08:43 AM (EST)
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55. "RE: Monday Morning Body Count" |
Oh yes, there definately could be more! 
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