How to catch a mouse...

[StripyPixieSocks]

Hmmm wasn't sure where to put this but as I've seen some people asking about catching mice in a humane way but couldn't decide which section to put this in...

http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/0 ... ch_a_.html

Sounds like a neat idea :)

[MuddyWitch]

Great suggestion, thanks SPS

MW

[grahamhobbs]

Ingenious!!

A mouse ate my sweet pea and sweetcorn seeds I had sown in modules at work in the office this spring. So I put down conventional traps - nothing doing, the mouse continued to eat my seeds when ever he could. So I tried poison, the blue coated wheat seed type. In the morning I would come in and there would be a nice neat blue pile where he had removed the coating and eaten the seeds. Meanwhile he continued to eat my seeds whenever he could get access to them, I had weighted down the perspex covers on the modules by now but once the seedlings got too big I had to remove the covers and then he would dig them up and eat the last of the seeds! This went on for about 3 weeks, sweetcorn seed is not cheap and it was seriously disturbing my successional sowing plans, but each day there was this ever so neat blue pile of poison sat there. Then suddenly he was gone! I guess he had slowly managed to digest enough of the poison whilst nibbling it off.

[StripyPixieSocks]

I don't like poisons or traps, we had a mouse problem in the last house I lived in and my ex used conventional traps baited with the chick food we fed our Cockatiels on when they were weaning which is kind of like a porridge type product... the mice loved it but I really couldn't stomach the snapping noises of the traps... it made me cry lol

[pumpy]

We have two cats............ we don't have any rodents, (only dead one's).

[Thomzo]

We have two cats............ we don't have any rodents, (only dead one's).

Lucky you! The only problem I have with mice is when the cats bring them in. There was a classic scene a couple of years ago when I came downstairs to find the two cats curled up asleep infront of the patio windows and a mouse curled up asleep on the chair next to them

I love the loo roll method. My preferred method is to chuck a margarine tub over the mouse and then slide a piece of cardboard underneath.

The funny thing is that even though the cat has watched me put the mouse out of the door she still spends at least an hour looking for it in the house.

Cheers
Zoe

[the.fee.fairy]

My ex's cat used to wake him up at silly o'clock in the morning springing off his chest to jump on a mouse... She also used to carefully move piles of washing piece by piece to get the mouse underneath. If she killed it, she'd disembowel it and leave the entrails in a line across the kitchen floor, with her sitting at the mouse's head to show how proud she was.

I've used humane traps baited with peanut butter - i used biscuits at first, but they'd get the biscuit and get out somehow. When it came to the really little ones, the human traps never went off, so i used to pile washing next to the basket and put a biscuit in the bottom, the mouse would climb up the washing, drop into the basket (a plastic box thing) and then not be able to get out.

I can't o the killing traps, i found a mouse once that had just its paw in the trap, and it was heartbreaking.

Finlay won't kill mice. He kills rats without a problem, but shakes at the sight of a mouse...