Yes, there is a mouse living in the room, and my fatass lazy cat chooses to co-exist with it rather than hunt it. I don't want it in here, but I'm not sure what to do with it. I don't really want to put out poison or a mouse trap, because I don't want to put out something that can harm my cat. So I'm not sure what to do. Anyone have any suggestions?
They sell humane mouse traps, i dont know where to go buy one you may find one at the pet store but Peta sells them online but I don't know if you want to wait that long. People suggest for lost hamsters to get a bucket and throw some food in it with steps of some sort stacked up against the outside so the hamster can climb up and fall into the bucket but has no way to get out. I dont see why it wouldn't work for a mouse, just throw some cheese in there and once it's in set it free outside far away from your home the last thing you'd want is for it to come back. I hope you get it before your kitty does although it is the law of nature.....
We had a mouse a few years back, little blighter was so tame it would come out and look at us. Tried the humane trap, and it worked, caught it and the little bugger managed to wriggle out, after that it moved on next door. We live in a terrace, and everyone played host to that mouse before it moved on. By the way, don't bother cheese, they love chocolate or bacon.
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mice LOVE peanut butter and it can be smelled easily as well. if you are going to trap use a HUMANE trap even if it takes a little longer to get it and then set the mouse free somewhere else. you do run the risk of separating the mother from her nest of babies tho. its getting to be warm outside now and so most mice that infest a house will leave when it gets warm. i say if the mouse bugs you that much then order a humane trap and do it that way.
There is never just one mouse. I lived under the dellusion that there was only one mouse in my ex-husband's house. I left it alone because I figured it couldn't do much harm. How wrong I was, turns out this mouse was like the mousie-equivalent to a scouting patrol. Once it figured out that I had no intention of hurting it, all it's brethren appeared. And one mouse turned into dozens of mice who pooped on my clean dishes, chewed through bags of sugar and flour. I couldn't even back a cake without it being ransacked in the night. Mice look cute but they are still vermin to the core. They don't care about you or your home, they will eat your food and spread disease without a care in the world. I tried every kind of trap imaginable. From human catch traps then moving onto glue traps, the uber-creepy snap-traps. Finally we got a cat...she caught and deterred many a mouse but when I discovered that the mice were still coming out and pooping in my daughters'(who were toddlers at the time) bedrooms, we made the decision to have an exterminator come.
Yeah, I think the mouse in my room is one of a bunch of mice who camped out in our house for the winter. The others were camping out behind our stove, so my parents poisoned them (I don't like the idea, but that wasn't exactly my decision). I think the mouse was (is?) living in the corner of my room, behind my guitar cases. That's such an easy place for my cat to get to, and as I said, I don't want to hurt her. It seems to have left, I haven't heard it running around in awhile, but I'm not so sure. Why would a mouse leave behind such easy food? I'm thinking it's just getting smarter. I'm going to have to keep an eye out.
We had mice a few months back, five in total. So we put down humane traps baited with dried soya mince crumbles (seriously, that's what they'd got into) then released them in the allotments a few streets away. Haven't heard from them since.
Nah course not, it's about as natural a surrounding as you can get in a big city. Lots of plants for food and shelter. Probably wouldn't even occure to them to move out. *shrug* seemed a good idea at the time.
NEVER USE GLUE TRAPS They are the most disgusting, inhumane trap available. The animal suffocates or starves to death, or dies of dehydration. The more they try to get free, the deeper they become imbedded. Their faces get covered in glue and they suffer tremendously. They can live for several days, still using the restroom on themselves. It is sickening. And the glue trap death is not limited to rats and mice. Anything small enough can get caught and die. There is no excuse for glue traps. No living creature should be in agony for days just because it is viewed as a pest. Get a humane trap or at the very least, a snap trap. I personally would never kill a mouse or rat. I have 2 rats and know they are smart, sweet animals. I understand if you'd not want them running in your walls, though. I keep mine as pets. Here are some humane traps- http://www.smithsax.btinternet.co.uk/ http://www.planetnatural.com/cgi-bin/planetnatural/humane-mouse-trap And google's results for "humane mouse trap" http://www.google.com/search?client...&hl=en&q=humane+mouse+trap&btnG=Google+Search good luck!
Never heard of glue traps, but I'll certainly avoid them. That's just not right. I'd kind of feel bad using anything but a humane trap, not just because of the cat, but because we live in such a rural area. Our house is purched on a mouse apartment complex. Can't really blame the mouse for wanting to use the land on their habitat. I just don't want it in my bedroom. From what I've seen, it really is gone. I got out my acoustic guitar, which is where I believe the mouse was hanging out, and it wasn't there. I'm going to keep an eye out, but I think it may have gone back outside now that the weather's warm.
