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RE: Catching a Mouse.. - 10/28/2007 8:26:07 PM

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Mice. A potential squirrel. I envy ya'll your household pests. We found a damn two inch tarantula crawling up the wall yesterday.

CL, get an old fashioned snap trap and kill the damn thing. CJenny, try calling animal control and see if they'll hook you up with a trap. I'll be investing in one of those Texas Flyswatters I used to think were just novelty items.

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RE: Catching a Mouse.. - 10/28/2007 9:20:00 PM

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i heard of somebody getting two mice in their home the day they moved in. Regular mouse traps with burned cooked bacon did the trick. SNAP went the trap killing them instantly. I like animals and hate to hear they are killed EXCEPT when they do harm to somebody. Saw a Video of what a Pit bull did to a man's face. YIKES.

Have heard of a mouse or rat biting a man in the face... shudders...

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RE: Catching a Mouse.. - 10/28/2007 9:39:29 PM

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We get mice here pretty much per annum. You have to kill them usually. But there have been some interesting occurrances.

One time, the shower curtain was on the outside of the tub. The lil fucker obviously climbed up it and unfortunately found that he could not get out of the tub. I saw him, and in my stoic fashion simply went to piss like usual, knowing full well that he was there.

So I go drink another beer pondering this situation. Like CL I really don't want to kill them. They are just trying to live their lives, it is not by malice that they invade our homes.

Lil fucker would look at me mean, but I said "Get the fuck out of my house" and I said it several times. Left him to stew for about an hour and came back. After a few more times with "Get the fuck out of my house" I threw the shower curtain into the tub. Then I left the room.

I saw this mouse jump from a second story window into the snow. It was frigid outside but we had no mice for like three years afterwards. Perhaps mice do value their lives and have some form of intelligence.

This sounds like a bunch of bullshit I know, but it is true. Later I did get some of those glue traps and I swear I heard the trapped one "talking" to another. Again mice gone for a couple of years.

This last time around we got thirteen of them. Musta been a family of them in the basement or a wall somewhere. But for mice, this is generations later. The lesson of "stay the fuck out of here" was lost.

I heard if you catch one, burn him in the basement and the smell will deter others. That is next. They do not have to be alive to do this of course. I don't think I could burn any animal alive except George Bush. But that smell pervades your house even after you can no longer smell it, and it is supposed to keep them away. They can still smell it.

And about cats, I seem to have found that once the cat's scent is in the building, the mice go away. That's how it is at work. Cat ain't caught shit, because they can smell him and just stay away.

Any pests, I don't need them dead, just to stay outside.

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RE: Catching a Mouse.. - 10/28/2007 9:56:04 PM

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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord

There's a lil guy running around my appartment. I can hear him knocking things around under my roommate's bed, but I can't seem to find where exactly he's at..

So, my question is..
Any ideas how to catch a mouse humanely?
-I have zero interest in maiming/killing it.
-Do common mice tend to have any diseases or other issues I should be aware of?

So I haven't read everyone elses advice to this, as I'm too tired to do so. I was having some issues with some scurriers in my apartment that knocked my skillet off of my stove! Gods I wish I was kidding when I said that. Anyhow I got one of those little sound wave thingies <---technical, don't you think? I got it in the pest control section of k-mart for about $15.00 for two. (they came two in a pack) All I do is plug them into an outlet and viola...no more mice. These are kewl since they have an outlet on them so you don't really "lose" an outlet.

Happy Hunting.

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RE: Catching a Mouse.. - 10/31/2007 12:39:26 AM

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I had six cats who all hung out in my bedroom and I would come home and find mouse droppings on my bed.
(I had a serious heart to heart with them after that, which was followed by"Not again!!" before someone finally decided it might be more fun to catch)

I just saw one that the cats caught...no escape for him.

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