Humane mouse trap..

[surveyor]

I have recently opened our dogs next sack of food, to discover it's become the food source for a mouse... Cheeky little bugger. Tom was spotted today....

All food sources (dog food) have been removed and put into a plastic bin...

Now I need to catch aforementioned Tom. As he's cute, I'm not frightened, and I don't want any stinky bodies beneath our bedroom I would like to catch him alive, to be transplanted to a field...

Any suggestions for an effective trap....

[condor]

Likely to be more than one. How about Tom , Mrs Tom and lots of baby Toms on the way

[Toaster Pilot]

Toolstation sell a humane trap which is effective, put some chocolate in it and wait

[surveyor]

condor said:

Likely to be more than one. How about Tom , Mrs Tom and lots of baby Toms on the way

I'll be having words with our mouse control department if it is. One is bordering unacceptable. Need to cut down on the whiskers...

[BoRED S2upid]

At least 6 of the little swines from past experience peanut butter on the trap is the way to go.

[drainbrain]

We found a mouse.

Missus bought a pack of (3) plug-in things that emit a noise we can't hear but mice can't stand. Must admit to great scepticism. BUT mouse vanished and no mouse has returned.

[Cold]

Tom is a cat. Jerry is a mouse.

I guess the dog food is for Pluto.

[GOG440]

I misread that as Human Mouse Trap

I had visions of you running around the kitchen with a bucket to put over the mouse.

[Dilligaf10]

Peanut butter works very well.
(Well far better than the six lazy-arsed cats that lounge around doing 10/10ths of bugger all)

[Tycho]

I bought 2 of the humane see saw type ones and caught 2 little brown mice. You have to remember to check on them though as I remembered that I put them down about a week after the event I poured the little cute brown dead mice out of the trap which was different to the returning to the wild scenario I had in mind when I bought the traps. It turns out that the spring type ones would have liked them quicker.

[Fastpedeller]

Many years ago heard them (mice) running across the ceiling in the bungalow we were in. Over the space of a week I took the humane trap out each morning, put an elastic band around it and dropped the mouse off en-route to work. It worked well. One day we could hear the trap 'rocking' back and forth making a right racket as Jerry ran inside it. Opened loft trap, put elastic around and when I went to release him HE WASN'T THERE! Then I noticed the teeth marks on the trapdoor - One of his mates had released him! Clever little blighters. We didn't get them again though - they were clever enough to get the message. A colleague had a mouse, so I lent him the trap and the mouse disappeared! One theory is the mouse gives out a "terror scent" when caught and they know to vacate - not my theory, but it sounds reasonable. I had mice in the garage and put down spring traps (they seemed VERY sensitive), but the little blighters took the bait without releasing the traps. There are some amazing videos online of mice overcoming the traps - good viewing. Also some home-made traps (if you are ok with killing them) with "Ninja Assault course" rotating bridges with bait over a bucket of water.

[littlebasher]

How about as nature intended?



Got to count as humane surely?

[Veeayt]

Get one of these, then put a couple of cups of oil in it, and char an onion and a bone in it, so the oil will be impregnated in its walls, and smelly enough. Cool it and leave in one of the Tom's favourite locations. He wouldn't be able to get out of it. Proven fact.
Edited to add piccy

[anonymous-user]

I used to have three cats and they used to bring the mice in and occasionally they would lose them. Had one in the cupboard under the sink that was eating the wax candles and chewed up a sponge for bedding. I used a humane trap to catch it and caught it pretty quickly.

With three cats I think I have seen mice in every state of dismemberment possible.....

[anonymous-user]

Humane? Let loose in a field somewhere?

Mice are disease ridden vermin do should be dispatched

[HarryFlatters]

If I can catch one, while drunk off my arse, between a wine glass and a CD, anyone can...

[Vitorio]

V6Pushfit said:

Humane? Let loose in a field somewhere?

Mice are disease ridden vermin do should be dispatched

This, there is no shortage of the buggers, kill it, and every other one you find in a 20 yard radius of your house

[anonymous-user]

Vitorio said:

V6Pushfit said:

Humane? Let loose in a field somewhere?

Mice are disease ridden vermin do should be dispatched

This, there is no shortage of the buggers, kill it, and every other one you find in a 20 yard radius of your house

Extermination is the only way forward. Lefty Liberalism doesn't work we all know that.

[kiethton]

Yeah...just get an old fashioned snap trap

We tried the humane ones, they chewed/ate their way out! - bloody useless.....

Snap trap baited with chocolate buttons worked wonders!

[KrazyIvan]

HarryFlatters said:

If I can catch one, while drunk off my arse, between a wine glass and a CD, anyone can...

Fair play, but doest it not taint the next glass of wine/beer

as for the op, get a cat....or if you have a cat, feed it less. That what we did/do and rarely see a mouse in the garden or shed these days.