07-24-2007, 01:08 PM
Probably just a mouse. Rats don't scamper away as quickly-- they give you a defiant look and saunter off.
No way you're going to seal off every possible avenue, may as well not even try. When they want to come in they will.
The scoop trap sounds like a good option, but standard traps are the most humane way.
The glue/box traps are exceedingly cruel- whoever said "they just crawl in and die" must have been out of town for the process. We had the glue traps at work and the mice would squeal and travel with the traps and get lodged behind/under something, and you'd end up having to dispose of a live, turtured mouse- it was pretty gruesome.
No way you're going to seal off every possible avenue, may as well not even try. When they want to come in they will.
The scoop trap sounds like a good option, but standard traps are the most humane way.
The glue/box traps are exceedingly cruel- whoever said "they just crawl in and die" must have been out of town for the process. We had the glue traps at work and the mice would squeal and travel with the traps and get lodged behind/under something, and you'd end up having to dispose of a live, turtured mouse- it was pretty gruesome.