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Ro · 10-19-2005, 07:33 PM

How do I catch this little sucker.

Have had 4 glue traps from the dollar store in the kitchen (where he was spotted) for 36 hours or so, and nothing.

Decided to bait them with peanut butter this evening, and now I wait.

Anyone got any brilliant mouse-catching tactics for me to use?

Patek23 · 10-19-2005, 07:39 PM

...............and he hasnt got a house, I don't know why but I call him Gerald..........................

sorry.

Cheese · 10-19-2005, 07:42 PM

Incinerator · 10-19-2005, 08:04 PM

adopt a cat from the Humane Society, and make sure it's name's not Garfield

Tower · 10-19-2005, 08:34 PM

me too - there is a poison you can get at crappy tire it kills them from the inside so yhey don't smell up your house.... Can't remember the name right now.

RedHot25 · 10-20-2005, 06:31 AM

Bah...by those cheap 1 or 2 dollar old fashioned traps...only thing that works....

Cowperson · 10-20-2005, 07:34 AM

Cheez Whiz works good in traps but boy, there can sure be a lot of blood sometimes when they get their heads crushed. Hope you don't have white carpet.

Cowperson

ken0042 · 10-20-2005, 07:37 AM

I found those $15 ultrasonic devices work very well in getting rid of mice. Also, and places they can get in like dryer vents; line them with steel wool. Mice can't stand the stuff.

And I agree with using the old fashoned spring loaded traps. I used to use peanut butter or chocolate to bait them.

Clarkey · 10-20-2005, 12:26 PM

Ya just get a few cheap spring loaded ones and put them on a non carpeted area.

Or get a cat from Petland.

4X4 · 10-20-2005, 12:47 PM

My mom inadvertantly caught a mouse once with a vase. The vase was very thin at the neck (less than an inch) but wider at the bottom.
I stuffed food down there, but was too lazy to clean it so I hid it under the sink. A couple days later we discovered a dead mouse in there. He couldn't climb back out because the glass was slippery.

Speaking of pest traps, anyone ever have a problem with fruit flies? Little bas**rds. I went camping one time & left food on the table. When I got back, the little pricks had somehow infested my house. No matter how clean I kept the kitchen etc., the things were buzzing around the house like it was a garbage can.

I went online & stumbled across the simpleist, yet so beautifully effective solution.

Take a tall glass (see thru so that you can point and laugh) and spit a bite or two of an apple in the glass. Take a sheet of paper from your printer & make a cone with a very small opening at the bottom (smaller than the top of a tee) but have the top of the cone big enough to rest in the rim of the glass. Use tape to keep the cone intact.

Put the trap on your fridge & mock those fudgers every time you grab a beer. It'll shock you how many there really are even though you only see the odd one buzzing by the pop can you left on the table.

It may take a few days to catch all of them. Change the apple bite once or twice. And for god sakes, don't let them out right by your back door. Walk to the alley before you release them.

Skip2mylou · 10-20-2005, 12:54 PM

Ro are you sure you have just one, I thought I got rid of my problem ( I grabbed it with my bear hands) but my Dad said he spotted 2 of these nocturnal bas**rds last night.

I'm considering pest control services but not sure about cost, those non lethal traps are looking like my best option.

Fozzie_DeBear · 10-20-2005, 12:58 PM

Your bear hands?

________
PetiteBella live

ken0042 · 10-20-2005, 01:01 PM

They say by the time you see one, you have about a dozen.

I made the mistake of catching the first one live, opening the front door, and letting him run free. Little did I know he'd be going right back "home." I read a story on the internet when I was exploring non-lethal measures. A guy in Deer Run was trying to get rid of them, and was driving them kilometres away. But he thought they were the same mice coming back. He ended up tagging them (some people have too much time on their hands) and confirmed this. He went so far as to drop them off in Douglasdale, but the buggers found their way over bridges to come home within a few weeks.

I was leary about killing mice; as I used to have gerbils when I was a kid, so these were like little gerbils to me. After a few of them though; I used to look forward to hearing the "snap" coming from the other room.

The only hard part; the trap doesn't always kill them. The least messy way I found was to fill the sink with water to drown them. It is a little cruel, but knocking them out with a hammer was too messy if you hit them too hard.

shoestring · 10-20-2005, 01:06 PM

You can rent my cat,great mouser. Overnight and the problem is gone.
He will do a perimeter search of your house/appt and then lay in wait at the obvious entrance.

I heard recently that mice are virtually immune to most of the poisons on the market these days.Before I got my cat we had a mouse family and they ate the poison then tore into a pack of antacids.

Smart little buggars.
One panicky morning after one bit my better half, I trapped two of them in a sealed bedroom,mattress against the door,drawers pulled out and stacked up.Armed only with a waste basket,I got them out in the open and captured a mom and her little one.
Probably took 2 years off my life.
Use a moist paper towel and gloves to clean up there droppings maybe even wear a mask.

V H F · 10-20-2005, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Flaming Homer@Oct 19 2005, 06:39 PM
...............and he hasnt got a house, I don't know why but I call him Gerald..........................

sorry.

He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse....

Incinerator · 10-20-2005, 03:11 PM

so much for us being a rat-free province...

I saw a couple at work last week, I'm terrified of these little buggers...

ken0042 · 10-20-2005, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Incinerator@Oct 20 2005, 03:11 PM
so much for us being a rat-free province...

Recently I've seen a few pet stores that sell rat food. I asked how they could sell it if Alberta was supposed to be rat free. The responce I got was along the lines of "we just sell the food, not the rats."

oly74 · 10-20-2005, 03:37 PM

I used to get 2-3 every year until I got a cat, none since....

The best thing I used to use was the good ol' fashioned snap traps baited with peanut butter, usually caught them within 1-2 days.

TheyCallMeBruce · 10-20-2005, 03:48 PM

Easy way of catching a mouse.

Do you have a big bucket? preferably a deep bucket? Set it in the middle of the living room, have bait inside the bucket and provide a plank all the way to the top. Once the mouse jumps in to consume the food he won't be able to get out due to the smooth inside surface of the bucket.

ken0042 · 10-20-2005, 04:02 PM

Have you tried that, TCMB? I ask because when I was trying to be non-lethal I tried it, and had no luck.