You should be able to buy live traps for mice at the hardware store. I used them for a few years, but I now resort to poison. I caught one a few years ago and took it near the South Platte river to release it. Poor bastard. When I opened the trap it took off on a beeline as fast as it could, right over the 6' bank and into the river.

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Uh huh. Well, the little bugger and his pals will ultimately make you regret that deci$ion. Get a few conventional mouse traps, put a dab of peanut butter on the bait pad and take them out. They're not exactly endangered species and will cau$e you a lot of problem$.

Yeppers, kill the little buggers, and do it before they start chewing on the wiring in your car.

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BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
0BAMA .......... OUTHOUSE

That is a very, very bad idea. I had a rat problem and tried that idea. It worked fine until they chewed up my year book, pictures, furniture. Mostly stuff that can't be replaced. Then it was war!
I used peanut butter in a spring trap. Believe me they never knew what hit them. It breaks their neck or back instantly.

Do Not let them live in your house!

Danny

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One step at a time Don -

First thing you have to do is wait patiently ‘till he’s brought a few of his little friends over.

Then get the traps out.
Then get the propane torch after the fur.
Then ya gut’em.
Then de-head’em.
Then get out the BBQ sauce and grill.

And enjoy !!

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umm.. no

which is outside


I've got a tall trash can on the end of my tool chest with a tube over it

so when the mouse goes for the bait he falls into the trash can

And when he gets in there you can bash him!

Tom W

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I think they are cute, and I found a baby in our recycling bin a couple years ago, I picked it up and it sat in my hand (had been there a while, it was starving)....so I set it back in the bin, and brought it some bread/water, it ate/drank, and then I let it go outside. They are very soft and fuzzy!

However, this past year we had a whole family and their cousins living in our attic, so we had to deal with them swiftly. Standard mouse trap caught us 12 mice. And no more. Its still set, but hasn't been tripped. We caught 2 in the garage too. So I think we cleared up the population around here for a while.

We had one drown in a bucket of water in our back yard before too.....

Grossest thing ever was when I moved a cabinet in our basement that hadn't been moved in 6+ years and found a mouse skeleton + fur on the floor under it! EW! It'd been there a LONG time though....no actual mouse left, just fur and bones.

We live right on some woods so our mouse/animal experiences are more than plentiful. We've trapped 2 skunks and 4 raccoons and relocated them. Crazy. Every so often we have deer walk past the fence in back in the woods, and possums are a regular sight. And a woodchuck lives under our shed. And we have 3 nearly hand tamed squirrels that we feed daily. + about 400 birds that rely on us for their meals.

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They are cute and furry, until you find they have eaten the seat on your W126...They will shred cars, and build nests in really bad places.

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There's a reason why no body is busy building a better mousetrap . . . it's because the existing ones are so effective, nearly 90% or higher. It seems that mice don't have a large foraging range, so where you see them is pretty much their 9 digit zip code for placing the trap.

There's that whole disease thing too.

And also, you don't let a dog ***** in your house, why would you let a mouse?

I agree the glue traps are evil, but a mouse does nothing good for you and a whole lot bad when it is in your house. Kill it quickly/painlessly, but kill it.

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I live in a 40 foot motor home out in the boonies and I'm parked next to 40 acres of pasture.

I had dozens of them in my 6 traps in just a few weeks..for the last two years.....specially in the fall.

Long story short.....I put 3 to 4 drops of Oregano oil in the under floor vents and under the cooker.

Last three weeks...no mo mice ! Not one single mouse in any trap and no droppings where I usually find them.

This Oregano Oil 73 .......
http://www.doctorajadams.com/OilOfOregano.html

......was for my terrible bout of the flu this year....but the Oregano oil stinks so much I thought it worth a try as I didn't think the mice would like the stink any more than I did.

I'm gonna try putting some under the hoods of the cars here and see if it does the same.

DO NOT PUT THIS STUFF ON YOUR HANDS AND THEN RUB YOUR EYES!!!!!
You have been warned.

If you take this stuff sub lingually....make sure you only put 2 drops under your tongue and not anywhere else.

It will sting your lips and the taste is to be tryed to be believed !


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Maybe this one belongs in the Condo living thread, but I am too tired to look so I will put it right here.

I'm surprised nobdy mentioned POISON. I'd stored some boxes of Quaker's Instant Oats breakfast and Kleenex boxes in the Condo basement storge area in SF where I used to live and couple of them got in there.

They built a mouse condo from kleenexes, and had unlimited food from the Quaker Oats packets. Great for them, disgusting for us.

Using VERY careful handling techniques VERY strong poison, placed strategically, toook care of the problem fast.

It also called into question the practice of buying in bulk in places like COSTCO and WALMART and Home Depot.

And speaking of "Home Depot" I read that they are going to open up places called "Apartment Depot". The customers will just stand around there, and talk to each other about how they never have to do anything.


On a similar note, there had been lots of talk about the San Francisco Juvenile Hall was a horror, nothing had been done there since 1947 since it was built.

I worked there a while, (This was when "New Kids on the Block" were the hot new act, you do the math) and there was LOT of talk about a bond measure to tear it down and rebuild it anew.

We used to feed a herd of feral cats in the parking lot there.

The place was described to me by a Juvenile Judge as something out of Charles Dickens' "Bleak House", that bad. I cleaned up some areas in the office where we worked on my own, noone bothered me.

Then I noticed a lump one day under the corner of the carpet in an obscure cornern. So we lifted it up.

We found the skeleton of a large mouse there. I never felt the same about that place again.

Within a year, I left...

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I always figured if you used poison the mouse would crawl off and die in some inaccessible area and stink up the place.

Also poison might kill something you don't want to.....

like grandkids.

Tom W

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