I think I have a mouse
 

in my garage... not cool.. I hope it did not make it into the house.

I was moving my car stuff and found little bits of poo that would be mouse sized... I don't think it came with the new interior I bought since we shook and dropped those pieces a lot..

what would be the humane way of capturing one of these critters

get a cat

<-- is allergic to

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/20...16/snake,0.jpg


Its humane, its nature.

Hire this fellow...
 

Fox hunting :D

Kill the dirty little bastards.

I kindof like mice actually....they are really cute but in my garage or home I will kill them without remorse because of the damage they can do.

Tom W

If you want to catch it alive, then you might try one of these.

Still no better invention than the mouse trap.

http://www.zweknu.org/uploads/mouse800.jpg

Exactly, I had a mouse infestation in my finished "barn" the leetle bastards were chewing the seal on my garage door and destroying anything they could in the barn I tried trap and poison but the only thing poison did was make the turds green and they got wise to the traps...


until, I discovered carcasses in an used oil drain pan so I made a little mouse plank so they can get in with a piece of food suspended in the middle, they walk the plank jump into the oil......case closed.

Isn't their an old trick where you take a 5 gallon bucket, fill it 2/3 with water and spread some seed on the top of the water so it looks solid. Then you put some seeds on a plank so follow the trail and jump right in?

An old farmer was telling me thats what he used to do.

I had the garage door open a few weeks ago and I was enjoying a cold one in the driveway. I looked in at my WVO barrel and noticed movement. It was a mouse licking up the dripped WVO off the top. I tried the 5 gal bucket with food at the bottom thinking he could not jump out. Wrong! The crackers were gone and so was the mouse. I don't like to kill them if I don't have to.

your bucket was maybe two or three inches too short.

Tom W

Glue traps work well.

glue traps are wrong..

We are just going to let the little bugger come and go as he pleases.

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.

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 !!

umm.. no

Larry- Thanks that was great were didi you get that?

Eliminate the reason they are coming into your garage...

Food scraps?

Warm place to bed down?

Then...PB on the paddle, set and wait...

S N A P !

Little buggar's neck is in two pieces and he never felt it...

Open the hasp...dump the body, rebait w/fresh PB, and wait for another snap...

BTW, after about 2 or 3 snaps, throw out the trap...the little guys seem to sense "death" and will avoid the trap, regardless what you're using for bait...

Good luck!

:P

I just had it sent to me today in an email :)

We had two on the job. My traps caught twice what each of them caught. Them 1 each. Me 4.

Signed
The great trapper

Wait until you can catch two, and make yourself a pair of these.

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.

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

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. :D 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. :eek:

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.:eek:

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.:D

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 !:sick3::pukeface:


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Mouse builds mouse condo in San Francisco condo.
 

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...

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

That is what stopped me from using poison when we had a couple in our house the other month. I tried those humane traps, but the mice never went for them. I put in a couple of old-fashioned mousetraps, baited them with peanut butter, and killed a mouse each night until they were gone. I kept the traps out for a week after I got the last one, just to make sure there weren't any stragglers.

They will find their way into your house if there is the smallest entry point. There are always more than you can see. And they will breed. They will live in your walls and inside your floors. Kill them while you can and be done with it. The old-fashioned traps bring instant death, so it isn't as inhumane as poison or glue-traps or drowning.

I know you said you were allergic and humane, so that greatly limits your options. I don't have a whole lotta sympathy for them just because of all of the damage they caused in the past here at work.

As you might imagine, 100 tons +/- of grass, veggie and flower seed, 40K sq.ft. of dry, heated comfort and plenty of toilets as a water sourse make for a rather enticing little world for them to live in. Paper fertilizer and insecticide bags were also favorite targets. We tried a half dozen exterminators over the past 20 years with combinations of poisons, glue traps, poison water bottles, pellets, etc. All with little more than moderate success. We still lost $6-7K per year to the worthless vermin.

About a year ago, we figured what the heck, we've tried everything else why not try some cats. We pulled out all of the poisons and got a couple of cats from the humane society. They did more in 6 months than all of the exterminators did in a couple of decades. You used to be unloading pallets of seed onto trucks and you'd either come across a nest in the middle or there'd be a handful of mice scurrying out. No more. We still get a little activity in the unheated part of the warehouse that the cats can't get to and, unfortunately, activity in our climate controlled storage area (for hybrid$$$$ and more volatile seeds, germination-wise) has increased because the cats can't get there. The glue-traps have helped a little there.

When they start costing money and you see the evidence from the mice and your accountants, they ain't as cute.

The only issue now is we occasionally have to pick up a little headless mouse carcass and since there are so few mice for the cats to play with they now bring in chipmunks, birds and squirrels! Often not entirely deceased.

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

I'm here to tell you, this is so very very true. I can also tell you it takes about 2 weeks for a dead mouse in the wall to stink itself out. Kind of funny watching the dog stare at the wall for hours though.

Inexplicably, our cats like to bring their imported prey into one of the ladies' rooms. They kind of put them in a corner and lay in the doorway, ocassionally harassing them or chasing them around.

Initially we thought it was rather unpleasant, every now and then you'd hear a squeal from an unsuspecting user. But after thinking about it, we fiigured it was better if they left the chipmunks and squirrels there rather than between some pallets somewhere. I've caught a whiff of plenty dead mice over the years, I don't want to know what a larger rodent carcass smells like!

Over the years, I've caught mice in some interesting ways. One time this rental I was living in had an infestation. I took a plastic grocery bag and put some old pizza crusts in the bottom and covered them up with trash. I then poked a hole in the bottom of the bag and placed it in the corner of the kitchen where I'd seen them running around. Pretty soon, I hear a rustling so I ran and grabbed the bag and held it over an empty trash can (tall kitchen variety). 6 mice plopped out in the the can.

Another method I used was to scoop them up in a large plastic cup. I would spot one running behind the stove and I would grab my cup and kneel down with it positioned along the bottom of the cabinets because I knew that's where they liked to run. When they came around the corner, I'd scoop 'em up quick as a flash. You'd think they'd run as soon as they spotted me but if you're still they just keep coming!

Lately though, I just use this:

http://www.victorpest.com/live_mouse_traps.htm

The top one. Just put some peanut better in the bottom and it's a guaranteed trap every time. The only thing is that I had to tape a coin to the top of the trap under the door to properly balance it. Started with a penny but had the most success with a nickel. Mice got greedy I guess...

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.

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.