A Mouse....And not the Rob Allen kind

[richnota]

im sitting watching the TV and a nice, fat mouse just saunters into the room. He sees me and runs back into the other room.

What to do?

Glue traps? snap traps? borrow neighbors cat (she always wants to come in anyway)?

[Unrepresented]

Get one of these:



Should get him down to a leaner size for you.

Some of this will probably help him out as well, much healthier for him than what you've probably been leaving out for him to eat:

[WyrdoBass]

[BlackLake]

Well, now you know why your neighbour's cat always wants to come in.

[GeneralElectric]

I had a mouse problem when I moved in. My girlfriend at the time wanted me to not kill it but catch it humanely so I got a few of those traps. Didn't do squat.

Next up was glue traps with peanut butter globs rolled in bird seed on them. I caught one mouse with that over a weekend. The dog didn't enjoy it, since he kept trying to eat the peanut butter.

After that I said screw it. I went to go get those old school snap traps and used the same bait as well as chunks of old chedder cheese I had in the fridge.

First day I caught 7.

Caught 4 the next day, and then a record 8 after that. For the next couple of days after I'd catch a straggler. I'm currently mouse free.

[richnota]

Originally Posted by Unrepresented

Get one of these:



Should get him down to a leaner size for you.

Some of this will probably help him out as well, much healthier for him than what you've probably been leaving out for him to eat:

thank you. I was concerned for his health. Diabetes is a real issue for rodents.

[Mark Wilson]

Originally Posted by richnota

thank you. I was concerned for his health. Diabetes is a real issue for rodents.

That was easily the funniest thing I've ever read on Talkbass.

[mrokern]

Originally Posted by GeneralElectric

I had a mouse problem when I moved in. My girlfriend at the time wanted me to not kill it but catch it humanely so I got a few of those traps. Didn't do squat.

Next up was glue traps with peanut butter globs rolled in bird seed on them. I caught one mouse with that over a weekend. The dog didn't enjoy it, since he kept trying to eat the peanut butter.

After that I said screw it. I went to go get those old school snap traps and used the same bait as well as chunks of old chedder cheese I had in the fridge.

First day I caught 7.

Caught 4 the next day, and then a record 8 after that. For the next couple of days after I'd catch a straggler. I'm currently mouse free.

+1

Humane traps don't do squat. Snap traps are the only way to go. Sad, but true.

Otherwise, teach him some tricks. Might as well make him good for something.

[Matt Till]

Originally Posted by mrokern

Humane traps don't do squat. Snap traps are the only way to go. Sad, but true.

I disagree, snap traps work great, but I've used humane traps exclusively in my household and they've worked fantastically. I'm not sure what they are called, but we've used mouse traps that are a clear plastic box with a trap door opening on one side. When the mouse steps inside, the door snaps shut and you've got yourself one encased mouse ready to be set free outside far away from your house. And they are completely reusable, which is awesome.


There has only been one time I regretted using them, we had quite the infestation last winter, after catching "all of them" we completely forgot about the rodent problem. But we forgot that we left one trap set, in spite of catching "all of them." So, the house began to stink about, we followed the smell to the last mouse of the infestation dead. I felt really bad because the poor guy starved to death. If you use humane traps, make sure to check them often!! Otherwise, you'll be incredibly inhumane.

[GeneralElectric]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

I disagree, snap traps work great, but I've used humane traps exclusively in my household and they've worked fantastically. I'm not sure what they are called, but we've used mouse traps that are a clear plastic box with a trap door opening on one side. When the mouse steps inside, the door snaps shut and you've got yourself one encased mouse ready to be set free outside far away from your house. And they are completely reusable, which is awesome.

I had bought 4 of those and didn't catch anything. I guess YMMV is the golden rule here, but NYC rodents are a lot smarter than most 4th graders.

[Bryan R. Tyler]

I used a couple glue traps this past summer and caught two of them (1 per trap). Unfortunately, the directions that explained how to get the mouse loose (using liquid soap or something) with them did not work at all, and just trying to get the mouse loose was starting to pull the skin off, so I had to put them out of their misery with a big rock I'll only get the instant kill or completely non-harming traps from now on.

[Unrepresented]

Originally Posted by GeneralElectric

I had bought 4 of those and didn't catch anything. I guess YMMV is the golden rule here, but NYC rodents are a lot smarter than most 4th graders.

That's that new Jeff Foxworthy hosted game show spin-off, right?

[mrokern]

I had the same experience as G.E.

I tried the nice way of dealing with them (I don't LIKE killing most things...most...), and all I got was the mouse equivalent of them giving me the finger. AKA: wouldn't go anywhere near the things.

When I woke up one night with a mouse on my FREAKING FACE, I took the gloves off.

[GeneralElectric]

Originally Posted by mrokern

I had the same experience as G.E.

I tried the nice way of dealing with them (I don't LIKE killing most things...most...), and all I got was the mouse equivalent of them giving me the finger. AKA: wouldn't go anywhere near the things.

When I woke up one night with a mouse on my FREAKING FACE, I took the gloves off.

I noticed I had mice when they ate through a box of Lucky Charms.

That and one electrocuted itself chewing through a power chord.

[Matt Morgan]

I'm with GE all the way. Snap traps have always worked for me. I had a serious mouse problem in my college apartment and the humane traps and glue traps didn't do much.
Snap traps with peanut butter worked like magic. I was emptying traps a couple times a day sometimes with more than one mouse in the trap! In less than a week my apartment was mouse free.
The mice were getting in my food in the pantry, were eating through my vacuum cleaner bag to get at the "fluff" in the bag for nesting, were chewing all kinds of things.
Snap traps were the quick and highly effective cure to that problem.

[CapnSev]

Use the cat, seriously. The mouse will either pack up and leave, or the cat will get him and all his buddies in no time (providing it's a decent cat). You will have one happy cat too.

[Bard2dbone]

One of the nurses I work with told us about how she thought she had a mouse problem so she put out a couple of mouse traps. Shortly later she and her husband hear a snap in the pantry.

He goes in to get the mouse...and finds a huge-normous rat looking kind of angry while being restained with the snap bar sitting on his muzzle.

For him the snap trap WAS a humane trap. It didn't even really hurt him. But it pissed him off pretty well.

[GeneralElectric]

Did they drop a brick on the rat?

Me and some friends used to hunt rats with BB guns when we were little. You might want to look into that, I'm sure Jaguar makes a nice version of the Red Ryder.

[mrokern]

Originally Posted by GeneralElectric

Did they drop a brick on the rat?

Me and some friends used to hunt rats with BB guns when we were little. You might want to look into that, I'm sure Jaguar makes a nice version of the Red Ryder.

I prefer .22, but I think that's illegal in the city where I live.

[Chunk-O-Funk]

Originally Posted by richnota

im sitting watching the TV and a nice, fat mouse just saunters into the room. He sees me and runs back into the other room.

What to do?

Could get messy.

Get these too.