Mouse in Kitchen: Plan B

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

Anyone know where around Davis I can buy a "humane" (non-killing) mouse trap?

Comments

[turil.livejournal.com]

How about Ace Hardware?

[ron_newman]

One problem with this: what are you going to do with the non-killed mouse after you trap it?

[cosinezero.livejournal.com]

Drop it in your backyard, of course!

[kpht.livejournal.com]

Foolproof!

[cosinezero.livejournal.com]

The best part is you know the original poster is going to let it loose, and it's gonna crawl into my house where I not only don't use humane traps, I've got my own mousey-gitmo going on.

[kpht.livejournal.com]

ooh, are you holding juvenile mice with diabetes, too?

[joylewis.livejournal.com]

The plastic ones that tip and swing a little gate closed have never worked for me.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Not to engage in politics, but if you are going to get a humane trap -- please check it DAILY. If not checked, the mouse simply dies a prolonged death of starvation and thirst, which is no way to go. In some ways, instant death is far more humane than the way some people use humane traps.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

I would loan you my cats, but the mouse is usually "damaged" by the time we get to it.

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

thanks - fact is I HAVE a cat - and the mouse goes after her food. My cat is old (14) so maybe she retired and I wasn't invited to the party but she has shown absolutely no interest. The weird thing is she's not lethargic or watching Oprah: she was out in the backyard yesterday defending her turf against another cat.

[seaweedgirle.livejournal.com]

I've used the Hav-a-Heart trap once with great success. The mouse rattling in the cage woke us up. We then travelled with it to a local school's baseball field and let the mouse go. S/he never came back.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Tags Hardware over in Porter Square has a few.

Honestly, when I had mice the non-lethal trap that worked the best was a very large bag or bucket with a little dry food in the bottom. Mice would hop down into it, not be able to get out, and hang out happily getting fat until it was time to release them in the yard of my neighbor with the single-digit IQ who claimed to be a millionaire thanks to his sex toy website a nice, secluded, isolated place.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I second this! It does have to be fairly deep, though - I'd go for 18" or deeper. Mice can jump quite high for such little buggers.

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

If you get a non-lethal trap, make sure you catch every mouse in your house.

To catch just the mommy and toss her outside is a death sentence to her nine helpless babies.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

o.0?

What exactly are you advocating? Holding on to the mice you catch so you can release them all together in one big family group?

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

I'm advocating peaceful coexistence with little critters I guess. I stopped using my 'humane' trap when I considered the possibility of orphaning some adorable mouse family. Nothing humane about that.

But by and large I know it's not popular to suggest that humans can live with non-pet animals,

so I'm also advocating that people notice there's no such thing as a cruelty-free 'Trap'. If it's cruelty-free, it ain't a trap.

That's all. 0_o;

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

I can live with them - just not in my kitchen. They can have the whole back yard...

Seriously - how ever fond your memories of mice are, they are not exactly toilet trained, gnaw through wires and in general are not good housemates.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

And when they live out their lifespan (or eat a neighbor's poison) and die inside the wall or under the fridge, the odor's so bad it makes you long for the sharp scent of mouse urine your apartment used to be saturated with.

Oh, and that brings back the memory of listening to one run around *inside my gas stove*. I think that if you sat the mouse down and gave it the options of a) trapping and releasing it, or b) letting it run around free until the day it sets its fur on fire with the pilot light and burns the house down, the mouse would be totally cool with the trap.

[dmcgettrick.livejournal.com]

All the fun of catching a mouse is the torturing involved of said mouse when caught... hee hee hee

Oh - about Borax

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

I read on the Internet (and it's never wrong..) that Borax discourages mice. I had to go to 4 stores to find the stuff. I laid down a line along the wall where I have seen the mouse run.

Well, Borax is good for telling you if you still have mice...from all the little footprints. This one (gawd I hope it's just one) doesn't seem too bothered by it.

Re: Oh - about Borax

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

There is never just one!

Re: Oh - about Borax

[ron_newman]

In my previous apartment on Kent Street, there was indeed just one. Once I caught it (with a traditional cruel snap-trap), I never had another.

Just view it as an apportunity to make some art!

[inq.livejournal.com]

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUAM:78343_smdl

http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sketchbooks/html/grosz_sketchbook.html

The whole exhibit is great. It's a voyeur's (the non-creepy kind) delight.