Help - I just saw a mouse

[IronMac]

For someone named "decocritter" this is a bit of an odd thread...hehehehe

Common wisdom seems to be to use peanut butter (crunchy maybe) on a trap.

As for tail lengths..proportionately, I think both mice and rats have tails just as long as one another.

[Microman]

That DeCon thing worked for me. Mouse crawled inside the box, and died.

[ho'ard]

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.

[lafinfil]

I just had one get in the basement last week (a hazard of leaving the backdoor open for the doggie)

mouse trap with peanut butter - he was nailed in less than 10 minutes

I left a second trap set just in case but it's been a week and it's not tripped so he was traveling solo

[cbelt3]

I'm amazed nobody has recommended the biological solution

[OWC Jamie]

[quote decocritter]something run behind my fridge.

I did not see where it went, but my guess is into the walls where I have pulled up some formica backing.


I am freaked out - I have never had anything like this in my house.


How do I get rid of it? What kinds of things does a mouse feed on??
You have never seen anything like this in your house.

They eat crumbs.
Often crumbs your vacumn misses in corners and crevices.
It will lick the chocolate remnants from a ice cream stick.


You'd be surprised the numberof entrances big enough for a mouse in even a new house.

They're often up at night when their natural enimies are sleeping.

Got a mouse eating owl ?

Traps or poison.

Or hope he gets disgusted with slim pickings and finds better hunting grounds.
He'll be back.
He's got family and friends.

[JoeM]

Must be a run on meesies this week. I noticed one walking around, calm as can be, in my living room last night while I was on the phone. Never had that before.

Miss Doggie was stretched out on the floor and when I told her to earn her keep and catch that varmit, she turned over, gave it one look, and laid back down again.

Peanut butter on a trap works great and is quick. I tried a glue trap once but felt they are way too inhumane to use. I wound up taking the little guy outside and using cooking oli to free him.

[space-time]

you guys talking about "inhumane" glue traps, remember, we're not catching humans, we're catching mice!

LOL!

[sam ward]

I had a mouse that used to watch TV with me.

[AAA]

We're gonna need a bigger mousetrap!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...9911123867&q=mice+infestation+australia&total=1&start=0&num=100&so=0&type=search&plindex=0