Humane mouse trap..

[98elise]

kiethton said:

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!

Ours is made of galvanized steel so I'l like to see them try

We had a sudden infestation in our loft. We used the snap type ones but they only catch one at a time. We bought our humane trap from ebay, and on the first day it caught 3, then a few days later there were another couple in it. It was baited with a chocolate chip cookie

This is similar (possibly identical) to ours...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mouse-Trap-Humane-Metal-...

[Jambo85]

I like the look of the Goodnature A24 - automatic resettable CO2 powered one. Assures an instant death which is humane by my definitions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-YFbktaAAg

Bit pricey though...

[Rangeroverover]

If you do the humane thing make sure you release them a long way away. I was convinced we were catching the same one again and again so used OH nail varnish on its foot it kept coming back, eventually the solution was to release from the car about 10 miles away, anything up to a couple of miles it would return.

i wanted to release it at about 70mph from car window but wife wouldn't let me

[QuickQuack]

As above, if you are going to release them outside, you really do need to release them a very long way away. I don't know whether they can find their way back direction wise, but I have recorded the little buggers running over 15 miles in 24 hours. There are millions of them, you really aren't going to be saving them from extinction with humane traps. Just get proper traps and be done with them.

[p1stonhead]

I like this solution

[QuickQuack]

p1stonhead said:

I like this solution

Mice would be able to chew through the plastic bottle in no time especially overnight.

[QuickQuack]

Rangeroverover said:

i wanted to release it at about 70mph from car window but wife wouldn't let me

Why did you tell her what you were going to do, or take her with you if she came with you? If she cares that much about them, she can deal with them herself next time! My wife is scared of them so accepts that as she can't deal with them herself, she won't interfere with what I do.

When we had a cat (she had it before we met), the only mice in the house were the ones the sodding cat brought in, played with then left when she got bored. I used to fling those out as they didn't want to be in the house in the first place but one of them bit me so that one got killed and binned. We did start getting the odd one after the cat died, usually at the end of summer when they're trying to find somewhere warmer than the cold fields. I have caught loads with the old fashioned spring traps and I have left a few around the house permanently. I do check those every now and then but unlike humane traps, you don't need to check them every day.

I did have one mishap with one of them though. About a year ago, we were going away for the weekend and I was getting my stuff from the dressing room. I saw something on the floor, right at the back behind, the clothes on the lower rail. I thought I'd better get it because I do keep dropping ties and things down there, so I knelt down and put my arm through the clothes blindly to try to find it by feel. Then all of a sudden, 4 things happened pretty much in a matter of milliseconds. 1) there was a loud snapping noise; 2) I felt a rather sharp pain at the tip of my right index finger, 3) various expletives were shouted out; and 4) I remembered that I had left a trap there, and in fact, I had checked it the day before so really should've remembered earlier... Worse, it was one those with plastic spikes on the snapping bar so it did smart a bit.