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LibraLiz1973 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 07:45 PM Original message

Dammit. There is a MOUSE in my HOUSE!!

WTF??? Ewwwww Saw it lsat night around 1am the first time. It heard me and ran away. Now I just went down to the kitchen and it was scurrying away and ran under the fridge. I've got glue traps set all over the house but I am SO grossed out. We don't leave food out or anything and we are pretty clean. This is the second time in 13 years living here that we have known we have a mouse. The first one I never saw, it just crapped all over me floor. Now what do I do? I have no cat!

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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 07:47 PM Response to Original message

1. You could start by getting a cat

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LibraLiz1973 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 07:48 PM Response to Reply #1

2. I am so grossed out at this point...

The idea of a kitty leaving me a present in the form of a dead mouse is just as bad. But it may come to that

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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 08:11 PM Response to Reply #2

3. I'd lend you one of my cats. They eat the mice they catch.

Edited on Sun Jul-08-07 08:13 PM by ocelot They're good little hunters; they reliably catch and eat the mice that get into my (very old) house. Unfortunately, this usually occurs in the living room while I'm watching TV. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. "Love to eat them mousies, Mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off, Nibble on they tiny feet." -- B. Kliban

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lost-in-nj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 08:50 PM Response to Reply #3

8. You just reminded me

we used to have 2 cats.... they tagged teamed!!! A mouse or a mole outside... They would pass it back and forth to each other...... just like hockey!!!!! lost

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ClassWarfare2008 (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 08:13 PM Response to Original message

4. How do these "glue traps" work?

I'm assuming this is supposed to be a more humane equivalent to the old neck snapper. But wouldn't a mouse be just as likely to injure or kill itself trying to get unstuck from glue? Is the object supposed to be "catch and release", and if so, where would you release them, to ensure they didn't come back. Sorry if this sounds like the third degree, I'm just curious about the strategy of "glue traps".

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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 08:21 PM Response to Reply #4

6. They are actually less humane

than the old neck snappers. The mouse gets stuck to the glue strip and it, or you, can't get them off. Basically, they are stuck to it until they starve to death.

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ruiner4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 09:28 PM Response to Reply #6

12. It does have a chemical that dopes the mouse and kills it..

Ive used em and a mouse will die from the chemicals before it starves to death.. However after seeing the little mouse in it, i didn't have the heart to use it again... Then I tried a little electric trap that is supposed to be humane.. It grossed me out when its little foot stuck to the electric pad so that was the end of that... they escaped the live trap... So im back to mr. snapper cause its quick

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LibraLiz1973 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 09:06 PM Response to Reply #4

9. IMHO there is no humane way to get out a mouse out of your house

But what can you do?

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lost-in-nj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 08:16 PM Response to Original message

5. OMG

I have one to I saw "signs" in my pot holder drawer... Dumped that and checked it the other day.,,, I emptied it in to the garbage when I looked the other day.... there was friggin dog food in the corner of the drawer the stupid mouse was hoarding it..... I bought traps today just haven't set them.... :rofl: lost

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nolabels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 08:45 PM Response to Original message

7. Has anybody ever used one of these?

I used them big snappers and poison bait for the rats. That worked well but it just kind of seemed interesting, these electronic ones :shrug: Victor® Electronic Mouse Trap http://www.amazon.com/VICTOR-Victor%C2%AE-Electronic-Mouse-Trap/dp/B000BWY6P2

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marzipanni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 09:11 PM Response to Original message

10. I've heard if you don't find it in time the mouse may chew its stuck foot off

to get unstuck. A "vertebrate pest" specialist at University of California told me she would drown the mouse/rat stuck to the trap in a deep bucket of water rather than let it die that way. I found a little humane trap at the feed store and have caught a couple of mice and released them out in the country away from houses. Here's the kind I have- I highly recommend it: http://www.shop.com/op/~Woodstream_M323_Victor_Mice_Trap-prod-34530484-45092491?sourceid=3

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MysticalChicken (832 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 09:18 PM Response to Reply #10

11. I've used those.

I don't hate mice--I think they're adorable and I wouldn't mind having one for a pet--but when we lived in the country, they'd get into the house, and we always used the humane traps where the mouse goes into the gray box thingy and the door shuts behind it, and then we'd let them go.

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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 09:31 PM Response to Original message

13. If humane is a concern

The live box traps work well. All you do is put the trap in mouses path and they'll walk right in it and be unable to get out. Then ya just walk outside and turn it loose. We had a family of 4-5 here once. I put cheese in back of trap and caught 2 mice at once. All were gone in 2-3 days. :hi:

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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Jul-08-07 09:32 PM Response to Original message

14. I grew up in a house where I could hear the mice fight mighty wars in the ceiling.

I'd lie in bed at night hearing them scream in agony as they slaughtered each other. Eventually the loosing group would scamper off. Vicious creatures, the fieldmouse.

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