Safe and Humane Mouse Eradication

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I like your writing style. I'm much the same way about woodchuck (groundhog).

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Stormin Mormon
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snipped-for-privacy@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote in news:0b7Dg.7780$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com:

Bullshit. A cats predatory instinct is to hunt. May not eat it but the preys movement triggers instinct. If the prey stops moving it will often stop and do nothing further. When it moves again, it's ass is grass.

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Al Bundy

"Gary Brown" wrote in news:Nx1Dg.29$KV3.21 @newsfe03.lga:

Get yourself a Great Horned Owl.They well eat the rodents plus (and I'm not kidding) that lazy ass cat and any small yappy-ass dogs.

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Al Bundy

mice clean up and remove all sorts of leftovers of others including people and animals. they are natures garbagemen. leave behind fertilizer.

as long as they arent in my home I dont care, and if they get indoors I trap and relocate back outside.

key is to seal home well so they cant get back inside easy////

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hallerb

I would seal the house as best as I can. I won't torture them. But those that come in should not expect to reproduce and pass on any genes that carry any instinct that a house is safer than the outdoors where mice are food for wildcats, owls, snakes, and other predators.

What I have heard works well and had some positive experience with: snap traps with peanut butter, or peanut butter and popcorn. It can help to handle the traps with gloved hands to avoid leaving your scent on them. I would throw away used traps and get new ones - they are cheap enough, and some mice will avoid a trap that has the scent of another mouse dying there. Take advantage of the fact that mice like to run along walls and put traps in their way. Sometimes a mouse is caught by a trap not because the trap was attractive but because the trap was in the mouse's path and the mouse thought it was safe to run over the trap. Mice like to run along walls because it is harder for owls to catch them there.

If I was going to deport mice rather than kill them, I would make a homebrew trap including an automatically actuated shop vac. Given my impression that most animals fear vacuum cleaners as badly as anything, I think a critter that got inhaled by one and survived will avoid the vacuum cleaner trap, and preferably the house that had it and houses in general. I have heard that deported mice like to come back.

Mice will not only steal your food, but also contaminate it (and anything else) with their urine and their droppings. They will pee and poop *anywhere*, sometimes even in a container of food. And they will sit on things, after not using toilet paper. And they carry diseases, meaning any food in any containers that they got into has to be thrown out.

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Don Klipstein

I use Victor Tin Cats. A live catch trap that works very effectively. Cost about $15 each. Simple, simple, simple.

Humane?

I toss the trap, mice and all into a bucket of water. Let sit for five minutes.

I have a rule at my property. If you can live outside and not cause damage, disease, or be a nuisance, you can stay. If you wanna tear stuff up, come in and crap and pee everywhere, or just be a PITA, you're going to die.

One thing to address is the source of the rodents. You are probably surrounded by them, and getting the ones that come into the house, or around the house helps, but like water, more flow into the empty spot. You could just be having a bad year with a lot of feed and thus a big hatch of mice. Perhaps you could contact the county agent or cooperative extension and they can give info or actual help with the problem.

Rodents carry diseases that can be fatal to humans. When something may kill you, being humane is a weak response.

Steve

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Steve B

Google Rodenator and look at the videos. Some impressive elimination of burrowing animals.

Steve

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Steve B

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