Anyone has experience in catching those little fuckers?
I will take pictures for you later for your viewing pleasure. t.ia
I will take pictures for you later for your viewing pleasure. t.ia
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I just found a mouse in my house!
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Posts: 1181 (11/08/08 1:20 AM) Registered user |
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 ObservingEgo |
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Posts: 6881 (11/08/08 1:27 AM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) |
Yes...My cat almost killed a house mouse; I rehabbed it and kept it. Then I bought one from the pet store to keep the wild one company. |
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Posts: 2048 (11/08/08 1:30 AM) |
I do, but I caught them with catch-and-release traps, which I suspect many / perhaps most here would ridicule me for having done. They work on a little fulcrum
- the mouse goes in, gets to the other side, it tips like a teeter-totter, and the door closes and traps them. They're very easy to reload with food,
should you need to catch multiple mice. You can let the mice go in a woods well-away from your residence.
Having multiple cats has kept mice from wanting to be anywhere near my house for some time now, though. 
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Posts: 1365 (11/08/08 1:37 AM) Registered user |
I used the same traps. Some mice can get out of them though so sometimes you have to rebait them. If you can deal with the carnage, traditional snap-traps work
more reliably, but I couldn't deal with killing the nearly dead critters so I went with safe & sane.
My cats suck and need to be fired or something because they are useless. |
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Posts: 306 (11/08/08 8:54 AM) |
Give the mouse a cookie :D
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ScruffyGuy |
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Posts: 8579 (11/08/08 9:15 AM) Registered User |
Maybe it will eat the mushrooms for you.
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Bernard Wrangler |
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Posts: 10834 (11/08/08 9:19 AM) this won't end well.
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there is an open field across the street from our house. our two cats keep leaving offerings on the front porch. this week the youngest cat has brought in a
live mouse on two different days. it played out the same both times. ReRe sees the cat at the front door and lets it in. the cat comes in. ReRe sees the mouse
and screams. the cat drops the mouse and it runs into her study. ReRe screams louder.
funny stuff... even though I have been informed, "it's not funny!" |
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Posts: 2124 (11/08/08 9:24 AM) Registered user |
If you give a mouse a cookie he is going to ask for a glass of milk.
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pie123452001 |
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Posts: 32656 (11/08/08 9:25 AM) Registered user |
And then they start asking for cheese and that's just wrong. |
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Posts: 22652 (11/08/08 9:32 AM) MESS member |
bernie, I made the mistake of doing that with a big rat - took three weeks to catch the f*cker - cats and dogs were useless sinceit'd dart behind furniture
or under furniture - and it would come out at night when we were watching TV and taunt us
finally got him with a snap trap baited with gorgonzola - we high fived each other when we heard the snap |
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Posts: 6728 (11/08/08 10:26 AM) Geenyus extraordinaire
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our two cats keep leaving offerings on the front porch. Best part of having a cat right there. My favorite was the chewed up grass snake I got for my birthday. |
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sadllama |
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Posts: 3396 (11/08/08 10:47 AM) |
aren't you the person that had that fungus growing in their apt and showed everybody pictures of your dirty, nasty, home? Clean your house, skanke!
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Penelope McBagpipe |
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Posts: 6729 (11/08/08 10:49 AM) Geenyus extraordinaire
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It was a mushroom. And he made one hell of a good pork chop sauce with it if I remember the thread correctly.
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Visa Declined |
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Posts: 3343 (11/08/08 11:30 AM) Registered User |
I just finished cleaning up half of a dead rat that my cat dragged in. I wish I had thought of taking a picture so I could show you all. I expect her to cough up the other half tonight, maybe Ill post a picture of that. |
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Posts: 11262 (11/08/08 12:55 PM) Registered User |
Traditional mousetrap with peanut butter instead of cheese.. works every time. Once in a while, they'll get wise to it and find a way to eat the peanut
butter without triggering the trap.. so I just position 4 traps together in a "+"-shape, they can't get the food without stepping over one trap.
It's messy though
 I had this problem a few months ago in my basement.. I managed to catch 10 in total.
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Katja Fallingstar |
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Posts: 614 (11/08/08 1:06 PM) |
Meet me in the trap. It's going down.
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Taniwha Is Waiting |
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Posts: 2348 (11/08/08 1:54 PM) Registered User |
Today I filled the goldfinch feeder with nyger seed which looks an awful lot like mouse turds. I just told my daughter to run out and tell my husband that I
found something awful in his underwear drawer. We couldn't keep a straight face for more than about 30 seconds, so it wasn't TOO unkind. Jokes on me -
I'll probably find the real thing soon in mine. We moved into an old house in the country - the mammalian seasonal visitors are a given. An exterminator
gave me tons of the super glue traps and I don't look forward to actually catching one in those - ugh.
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Posts: 2569 (11/08/08 2:23 PM) |
We had a mouse in my dorm room freshman year. Facilities came and put a trap in and the thing went in there in the middle of the night. It was still alive and
screaming and crying, and I called facilities to come and get it, but they said it was too late and they'd have to do it in the morning. I was a crying
mess, so I just ditched my dorm room and slept somewhere else.
rip mousie. |
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Posts: 6695 (11/08/08 2:43 PM) WRP Official Spokesperson |
I didn't have a mouse in my house, but my brother had a hamster in my old home and I ran away.
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Posts: 2597 (11/08/08 3:16 PM) Registered User |
I use the glue traps. Two weekends ago I caught two mice on one, they moved all the way across the room and they started playing SAW. One mouse chewed off the
other's tail and so that one in turn chewed off the other foot. It was a bloody mess, they were both still alive when I found them, so I put them in a
ziplock baggy to suffocate them instead of letting them starve to death. I had one that lived overnight in the ziplock baggy so I had to slam it into the
concrete because it chewed a hole in the bag so it could breathe.
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Posts: 2809 (11/08/08 3:58 PM) |
pie123452001 wrote:Give em an inch and they want a mile |
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