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Vincent the Dog
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 2000
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 10:35 am: | 
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A single, small mouse has been spotted a few times running across our kitchen floor. I got out the half dozen or so spring traps I have and loaded them up with cheddar cheese. Next day, the cheese was gone and the traps unsprung.
Next I tried soft cheese that would stick to the trap better, cream cheese, goat cheese. All got "taken."
Then peanut butter, squished into the grate of the trap. The mouse seems to have enjoyed the treats without springing the trap.
What am I doing wrong? |
Pdg
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Username: Pdg
Post Number: 934
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 10:44 am: |
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http://www.bugspray.com/article/rats.html |
Rick B
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Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 1114
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 12:42 pm: |
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Get a glue trap. |
mrmaplewood
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Username: Mrmaplewood
Post Number: 350
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 1:31 pm: |
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Can you wedge a piece of peanut into the trap? That usually works well for me. Plus, the traps from China are not good traps. I use Victor traps made in Pennsylvania. |
DRJ
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Username: Alaska
Post Number: 76
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 1:52 pm: |
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Go with the plastic Victor snap traps. They cost more than the cheapo wooden spring traps, but they work so much better. Bait them with peanut butter. |
Eire
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Username: Eire
Post Number: 174
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 2:57 pm: |
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I second the victor snap traps - you can re-use them - seriously. If you can figure out where it's getting in, try wedging one there. |
Eire
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Username: Eire
Post Number: 176
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 3:01 pm: |
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you know, i'm not talking about the regular snap traps - they have these bigger looking plastic ones - you pinch them together with your fingers, and can just pinch it together and the poor thing just falls out of it (after the unfortunate business) |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 1242
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 3:23 pm: |
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If there's one mouse, chances are, there are more. We had eight last winter. |
Kibbegirl
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Username: Kibbegirl
Post Number: 609
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 3:47 pm: |
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I saw a mouse in our kitchen last year and nearly freaked. I went to Home Depot and purchased a box of TomKat poison. It comes in mid-sized, green blocks that you divide and throw in hidden areas like behind the radiators, cupboards, etc. For two days after the poison went down, I saw nothing -- and no droppings either. Early one morning BOOM!there it was dead on the floor. It was incredibly stiff and had no smell. It was gross, but an easy clean up. |
mrs_mooch
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Username: Mrs_mooch
Post Number: 11
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 5:26 pm: |
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Oh, please DON'T use the glue traps. It's so awful! I have a couple of good "mousers" if you need one. PL me and I can lend you my "mittens". She's a delightful housecat and I know she'll have your problem under control in a few days!  |
Vincent the Dog
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 2002
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 5:56 pm: |
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that's nice of you to offer, mrs mooch but i'm very allergic to cats and dogs, i haven't lived with a cat or dog in the house in over 30 years. i will try the other "aproaches" mentioned here. the idea of poison makes me uneasy since I dont want a mouse dying behind the baseboard and starting to stink after a week or a month or a year. if i thought the mouse would waltz out to the middle of the kitchen floor to die, as it did at Kibbe's house, i'd try it. |
catmanjac
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Username: Catmanjac
Post Number: 225
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 7:05 pm: |
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Get a humane trap. It is a rectangular box made of plastic. You put the bait in the end of it, and when the mouse enters, the box tilts and the door closes. Check it often, as you don't want a mouse to croak inside your house. When the mouse is in the trap, take the trap outside and aim it away from your house, and open the door (read the instructions) to let the mouse free. |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 1243
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 7:55 pm: |
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It's a mouse. It's a filthy, disease-carrying rodent. Get a glue trap. |
Vincent the Dog
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 2003
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 8:05 pm: |
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Lizzie, I'm with you. My concern is not treating my mousie humanely. Mice are like..ick...squirrels. And if you know me, you know, I HATE SQUIRRELS. I just want mousie out of my house. I dont wnat to be grossed out, though, by a half-dead, shivering beastie on the floor that I have to deal with.
Frankly, I'm having my 16 y/o deal with it. A good experience for him. Yeah, that's it, a good rite of passage for him. |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 1244
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 12:19 am: |
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I don't blame you, Vincent. I ran shrieking from each trapped mouse. Husband dealt with them. Just please tell your son that if he has to dispose of half dead mice he should wear gloves or use tongs so that he doesn't get bitten. |
beppolina
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Username: Beppolina
Post Number: 129
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 7:31 pm: |
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As the immortal Steven Wright has observed, it's the SECOND mouse that gets the cheese.
We vote for the plastic reusable snap-traps, too (very effective, although we haven't re-used them.. that's just a little too icky. And they're not that expensive.) Put the trap in a small paper bag (like a lunch bag) -- that way you won't have to touch the thing after the deed is done.
When we lived in the city we had a mouse infestation. Our super put a glue trap behind the dishwasher and all night we were haunted by this tiny screeching from a caught mouse -- we couldn't find it (super didn't tell us where he'd put all the traps). So a snap-trap, at least, is FAST.
(We had a cat, too, who got so complacent about the mice that she once sat and watched one eating out of her food bowl.)
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catmanjac
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Username: Catmanjac
Post Number: 229
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 2:45 pm: |
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campbell29
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Username: Campbell29
Post Number: 458
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 9:49 pm: |
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We've been trying the glue traps without much success. Our cat died, so we have no feline deterrent, and the mice are getting braver. We've caught a few of the baby mice (and our own baby) with the glue traps, but have yet to get the problem under control. What can I use that doesn't involve anything like poison,or snapping, that could hurt a baby. The mice stay mostly in the kitchen, but often the infant is there as well. |
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