I live a bachelor lifestyle, so I have no food in here. Just alcohol. I hope the mouse figures that out and goes away. I should get some traps in case it doesn’t. I hate killing animals but there’s no practical alternative.
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Snap traps and peanut butter are your friends. I do not know why, but they cannot resist peanut butter. I hate having to kill them and I won’t unless they come inside. They are free to roam aroind in my little garden though.
Get 2 medium sized boxes for moving.
Cut one of them up to make a ramp into the other box.
Put peanut butter or almond butt on the ramp and in the box.
Goto bed after drinking said alcohol.
Look in your box the next morning and your new friend will be there smiling at you.
Find them a better forever home.
That sounds a lot like what my coworker does with chipmunks. Except, it isn’t a box, it’s a bucket. And it isn’t a forever home, it’s 8" of water.
Mice can eat more than food. Papers, glue, anything organic. Also make sure any food wrappers are promptly disposed of. Tea and coffee grounds. Spills of juice, milk, anything like that. It doesn’t take a lot.
There is never one mouse.
Cables. Don’t forget cables. They sometimes go for the insulation, which could become a fire hazard.
Live traps work pretty good. Then you get a brief visit and can release outside.
Stay clean and don’t inhale the poop or pooticulate matter.
My understanding is that if I release them outdoors here in the city, they’ll go right back into someone’s house. If I release them in the middle of nowhere, they’ll die. A friend of mine tried keeping a captured mouse in a cage, but although he took good care of it, it always appeared to be terrified and died after a few weeks.
I’m willing to put in effort to protect animals (I’ve been a vegetarian for 18 years) but I think that catch-and-release mousetraps would just move the ugly part out of my sight rather than avoiding it entirely.
I hear ya. I live trapped under my sink and got like one a day for weeks and released outside (rural 100 yds from the house in tall grasses). Thought I’d scored a happy wife no longer asking me to kill the countless mice and didn’t have to kill.
I ended getting kill traps and killed maybe three, because it was the same mice just returning I’m sure via the magic animals do.
I would probably disagree with the idea that actual wild release would be a death sentence. I think mice would be just fine, or at least have a legit chance. But alas such things aren’t really feasible anyway in the city, and there’s health concerns transporting that far, and so on.
Fun fact: mice can travel upwards of 2 miles to find their way back to a habitat they’ve been removed from
I live trapped under my sink
Hope you get out someday!
If you see a duck without pants you should worry.
I need to know what this means
it was today that I realized I’m so old.
Hey man wanna borrow my cat
If you get a glue trap, they’re stuck, and now you have to deal with a live, suffering animal. If you get a regular mouse trap, they’ll almost certainly have their necks immediately, and humanely broken before you find them. I know that’s still not great, but it’s the better of the options available. I know of no animal-rights person that wants rats crawling over them while they sleep…
I use the snap traps, although the last time I did that, I had to execute a few mortally wounded mice, which was not fun. So many mice were coming into my old house that I resorted to rat poison there (I don’t expect things to get that bad here) but glue traps are over the line for me.
Check out the electric mouse traps. Mouse walks in, there’s a snap sound, mouse is instantly dead. Worked well for me
We’re on the same side. I had a mouse in the 3rd floor of my first apartment building, and had to humanely put it out of its ❔mystery❓ when I finally caught it. ☹️ I haven’t used a glue trap since then…
*DAMN YOU, AUTOCORRECT!
I know it’s a autocorrect, but “humanely put out of it’s mystery” is exquisite boneappletea
That is pretty great…
They climb pretty well, because I’m 14 stories up.
Yeah, that definitely came down from one of your neighbors…
Maybe it took the stairs.
I trapped one with two laminated boards in a corner, put a bucket on top and a piece of cardboard underneath. Moved it outside and it was back in half an hour. Then I brought it a few blocks away. Goodbye mouse.
Befriend him, when I was in my 20s my house had no food but all booze and we had this cool mouse live with us, we would put out some snacks for him where we knew he was getting in, he used to sit and watch tv in my housemates room with him.
He wasn’t worried about us after a while and I never saw any others come in.
