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James and RebYidd, I sincerely thank you both for your comments. It’s given me me much to reflect upon, and I hope never to have to make this decision again. However, if G-d forbid I ever have mice in my house again, I am calling either of YOU to dispose of the little critters, because I could NEVER EVER EVER EVER smash a mouse over the head with a “blunt object” or any creature larger than a cockroach (and even that makes me sick to think about it), in OR out of a bag. There is tzaar to THIS baalas chai, just envisioning it.
I know there is something we say when confronted by dogs, so they ostensibly will not harm us (never had to try it, B”H), but is there a “pest repellant” possuk anywhere?
Buy a trap. When the mouse is caught, move the trap with the mouse still inside it too wherever you want the mouse to be.
Mice generally walk into traps if there is bait.
Glue traps are probably the least humane (well, cats are probably worse). Snap traps kill them pretty quickly, but they don’t work that often and there’s a high “ick factor.” The trap I recommended electrocutes them, which presumably is relatively quick. You can close your eyes, turn the trap upside down, open the door, and dump them in the garbage without even looking at the dead mouse. I don’t recommend flushing them — snaking a dead mouse out of clogged toilet is too gross to contemplate.
Cats are more humane than glue traps. And mice fear them, so they help prevent the problem in the first place.
Then at least check the traps frequently and kill the mice.
James B. You said, “Put the trap in a plastic bag and find a blunt object. Squish the head. The animal is dead instantly. Your squeamishness is no excuse for suffering.”
That advice may work for the first day on the job as a mafia hitman.
Frankly, I am glad all our advice does not use up the ink on this page. There are exterminators already using humane methods to get rid of mice quickly, and to ensure any possibility of disease is nipped right away. No one has to run around with plastic or hammers or funnels or nosh or buy cats or whatever or make motel reservations or whatever..
Call the professionals: Always go humane!
Ok so let us know how it goes with the exterminatir
Poster -“I have had at least 8 baited traps, not one mouse went for it. I tried peanut butter, cheese, chocolate syrup and out of desperation I even paid 3 bucks for a special liquid bait made to lure mice onto traps made by a company that sells traps . No luck. The only mice I caught were on glue traps. Yes, it’s horrible.
Believe me I tried many other things. Nothing has worked.”
Did you try “Tomcat”?
BTGuy, the problem is though that people are still going to use those glue traps. If they are then the least they can do is make the animal’s death quick and painless, which is why I recommended head trauma for those kinds of situations.
I hear/read you James. That is a valid point. But the main point is asking suggestions for a way to get rid of mice. I vote call up an exterminator company that uses humane methods. They are out there. They use organic, non-toxic materials for carpenter ants and termites…etc. Since they are license, I assume they are legit. They also ensure the area is free of disease.
Regarding your great point about people will still use glue traps. Until we become more civilized in how we treat other specie, I recommend supporting PETA, and ALF (Animal Liberation Front), as I do from time to time. The both have different approaches, but I applaud them for the huge accomplishments in tzar balei chaim.
What kind of bait does the glue trap have? Maybe you can use the same scent in a humane trap.
Hello! Mice breed pretty quickly, plus with cold weather coming, if there is an entrance somewhere to your apt., you may possibly be able to expect more. Trial and error episodes may need to have a deadline placed on them.
Hopefully, you will find a solution fast.
The electronic trap I mentioned is baited with peanut butter. According to the instructions, mice enter it because they’re curious.
(“Mickey was a good little mouse and always very curious. ZAAAAPPP!”) You can bait it, NOT turn it on, and see if the bait is taken. If it is, turn it on the next night. Be sure to wear a yellow hat.
an anticoagulant is a poison that causes the veins to thin and the blood than leaks out. Try putting the traps across the full doorway that the mouse cannot leave the room without running across a trap. If you don’t have enough traps than block part of the doorway with a box or something but don’t leave even a small gap they can squeeze themselves through the smallest space, they have no bones at all.
Mice do have bones.
yehudayona, The Man with the Yellow Hat was friends with Curious George. Mickey is a totally different character.
Poster, did you try the Victor trap? (I don’t see why yehudayona suggested to leave it off. If the mouse goes in, it goes in. If not, not!)
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