There's a mouse in my house. What should I do?
Posted by hespedal on Nov 25, 2009 · Member since Mar 2006 · 5259 posts
I just saw it. It was in the kitchen and then ran over into the living room (where I am). I am afraid of scaring it.
What do they eat? All we really have is fruit. Should I worry about it or will it just go away. Hummm....
Another thing you can do is, put a paper towel tube hanging over the edge of a table/counter. Put a garbage bin or similar on a chair so that the end of the tube is hanging over it. Put some bit of food in the "danger" end of the paper towel tube. The idea is that the mouse will crawl into the tube and tip it over into the bin. Then he'll be in there and you can take him outside far away.
Like this:
http://www.robink.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/mouse.jpg
It worked for me once.
Or you can make a ramp from some object and put the end of the ramp over a bucket. Same idea.
Aww never mind, you already tried that, Erin. :(
eta: hesp, the humane traps are only $5-$10 at most. Go to a hardware store/Lowes/Home Depot.
maybe i'll try that bin one. i've seen the mouse a few times and he's always on the ground, though.
i feel like the bin is a little mean, though? the mouse falls into it a little hard, i would suspect.
maybe i'll try that bin one. i've seen the mouse a few times and he's always on the ground, though.
i feel like the bin is a little mean, though? the mouse falls into it a little hard, i would suspect.
I had put a little pillow in the bottom of our trash can, but Andy took it out because he was afraid the mouse would eat it and get sick....I'm not sure it would affect him, but whatever....still no mouse, but I haven't seen any of his droppings anywhere
So we finally caught our mouse!
After several weeks of using the tube and trash can method, we (Andy)
decided to try just a strip of cardboard instead of the tube. Within
15 minutes of setting it up and going to bed, we heard a thump......I
looked into the trash can and he jumped like 4 feet into the air at
me....it was scary, but he landed back into the can, thankfully....
I feel bad that we tricked him and threw him out into the cold. Andy
said he just stared at him for a minute and wouldn't run away. I hope
he wasn't hurt....
But it's nice to be mouse free - at least thats what
we think.....
Was that mouse wearing Air Jordans or something?
Get a cat.
Get a cat.
my dog would eat a cat......but not a mouse.....doesn't make sense
LOL. four feet?! wow.
I haven't seen mine in a while, so i think I'm good.
LOL. four feet?! wow.
It had to be the shoes. Nikes help make you slam dunk better.
yeah, he was a fiesty little devil and I'm sure he was pissed that he just got dumped into a trash can....
everyone I've told thinks he'll be back in the house in no time....Andy refused to take him to the park in the middle of the night so he just let him out in the backyard....
I used a glue trap to catch a mouse once. It was a little baby mouse all glued up and helpless, peeping for its mommy, and the more it struggled against the glue the more stuck it became. I brought it to a garbage can, but I didn't want it chewing a hole through the bag, so I threw the trap on the ground, took an empty tin can from the trash bag (I don't recycle), and I held the edge of the can against the chest of the mouse like a guillotine, paused for a few seconds to contemplate, and they gave it a swift confident push. I could hear its ribs crack and it let out one final desperate peep, and then it died, with goo coming out of both ends of its digestive system.
I'm sure it would have done the same thing to me if it had the chance.
I used a glue trap to catch a mouse once. It was a little baby mouse all glued up and helpless, peeping for its mommy, and the more it struggled against the glue the more stuck it became. I brought it to a garbage can, but I didn't want it chewing a hole through the bag, so I threw the trap on the ground, took an empty tin can from the trash bag (I don't recycle), and I held the edge of the can against the chest of the mouse like a guillotine, paused for a few seconds to contemplate, and they gave it a swift confident push. I could hear its ribs crack and it let out one final desperate peep, and then it died, with goo coming out of both ends of its digestive system.
I'm sure it would have done the same thing to me if it had the chance.
so i read all of your posts and 'm trying to figure out whether you just want a rise out of all of us or if your trying to "enlighten" us to your ways. though i think most of yours posts or ok and within the guidelines of this forum, i do think it's a little inappropriate to detail exactly how you killed a mouse in a vegan forum. especially in a thread that is asking for humane ways to deal with a mouse. who, by the way, i caught w/in 30 minutes of setting up a trap and gave him a new home in the park where i hope he'll be happy.
are you saying this cause you want us to cry or something? please, we have thicker skin than that and know that millions of animals die all of the time... i just can't really understand how this post is at all conducive to this thread, so if you could please tell me your line of thought it would be greatly appreciated.
It seems that people generally use this forum to communicate and to express themselves, and that's exactly what I'm doing, except from a very different point of view than most people here. (Though I am also a vegan.) You are free to interpret my true story any way you like, including a possible subtext of emotional nuance and a feeling of guilt, but in the end a surrender of emotion to pure economic pragmatism.
You are free to spend your money on more expensive "humane" traps and then release your mice into the wild, where they will continue to breed and invade other people's homes, likely damaging their food, spreading disease, and possibly biting their children. It is those human beings that I feel a much greater affinity for: they are the creatures who enrich my life through my economic cooperation with them. Try as you might, you simply cannot reason with a mouse. I think about the hundreds of millions of people who've died from rodent-spread diseases over the past millenia and I think about all the contributions those people could have made. The dark ages could have been shortened, the Renaissance more swift and economically powerful, and the scientific age could have come sooner, resulting in much better quality of life as well as life expectancy for all human beings alive today.
possibly biting their children
Ever had a mouse in your house? They run like hell when you come into the room. In other news, I hear that black cats sometimes suffocate children in their sleep by lying on their faces!
And regarding "emotional nuance": it's a valuable method of delivering your message in a way which is more palatable to the listener. You seem to be here purely to deliver your views, automaton-like, to an audience who clearly does not conceptualise in the way you do. You might find this forum a little more conducive to listening to you if you didn't go out of your way to be quite so clinical and over-share information which will upset other forum-goers.
Ever had a mouse in your house? They run like hell when you come into the room.
You don't really want me to post pictures of infants chewed up by rats, now do you? But such cases to happen, and the reason they don't happen more often is because most people prefer to exterminate rats before their numbers multiply. Of course spreading disease remains the #1 harm caused by rats.
In other news, I hear that black cats sometimes suffocate children in their sleep by lying on their faces!
That happens far less often, precisely because cats are a domesticated species, and most cats are not near a point of starvation. And please don't try to prove me wrong by putting an infant in a room full of starving cats overnight - that would be murder.
It seems that people generally use this forum to communicate and to express themselves, and that's exactly what I'm doing, except from a very different point of view than most people here. (Though I am also a vegan.) You are free to interpret my true story any way you like, including a possible subtext of emotional nuance and a feeling of guilt, but in the end a surrender of emotion to pure economic pragmatism.
You are free to spend your money on more expensive "humane" traps and then release your mice into the wild, where they will continue to breed and invade other people's homes, likely damaging their food, spreading disease, and possibly biting their children. It is those human beings that I feel a much greater affinity for: they are the creatures who enrich my life through my economic cooperation with them. Try as you might, you simply cannot reason with a mouse. I think about the hundreds of millions of people who've died from rodent-spread diseases over the past millenia and I think about all the contributions those people could have made. The dark ages could have been shortened, the Renaissance more swift and economically powerful, and the scientific age could have come sooner, resulting in much better quality of life as well as life expectancy for all human beings alive today.
lol. i still think you were just trying to get a rise out of us. who else would specify that they don't recycle? who cares and why does that have any relation to the story at hand?
i spent $0 on my humane trap, so i was very happy for it, thanks.
if your first post was actually supposed to be an enlightenment tool, you would have said something like you said in your second post, but prefaced with the fact that you once had a mouse and had to kill it due to the following views (insert second post).
i was pretty much talking about your other posts being maybe non-trollish, but this one was pretty ludicrous. i think, as an adult, you should know there are better ways to spread your views than that.
Well, the murder weapon is usually pretty important detail in criminal fiction, and I wouldn't want to be accused of recycling the glue-trap with a rat attached, so I wanted to clarify why both the empty can from beans (improvised guillotine) and the dead rat ended up in the same trash bag. So it goes.
Alex - same thing. If you would like to discuss whether or not to kill mice, start a Food Fight topic.
DaMN!
We have mice again! I think it is because I was working in the garage and left the door open all day the other day.
We still have 2 humane traps left over from before. They are already set up.
Last time, the mice just ended up moving out. I think I willed them away.
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