Trapping Clever Mice
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XB70 said:
Got to admire his/her guts!
Stood over it with the size 13 ready to dispatch it to the afterlife when it raised itself up (presumably to try and bite me). I paused. There was absolutely no way he was going to come out of this but still, despite the massive size difference, he was going to go out fighting.
So I went and got a plastic container, very very carefully put him in and walked down the road to some bushland and let him go.
Stood over it with the size 13 ready to dispatch it to the afterlife when it raised itself up (presumably to try and bite me). I paused. There was absolutely no way he was going to come out of this but still, despite the massive size difference, he was going to go out fighting.
So I went and got a plastic container, very very carefully put him in and walked down the road to some bushland and let him go.
We use a humane trap, I will find a link and post it not all of them work. with a suspended floor house a couple of parrots as pets and fronting onto an ancient common wood we live in sea of incentivised wood mice. Over the years its been a to and fro war where they find a new way in and I track it down and block it off. If you leave a hole that you can poke a pencil through a mouse sees it as a flashing neon sign with the legend, "Restuarant this way".
Usually its tradesmens efforts to knock off early. big crude holes for drainage, central heating , rising mains and most recently a gas feed where a blanking plate was left hanging off.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/PROCTER-HUMANE-TRIP-TRAP-M...
I chuck them back in the woods, at least 1/4 mile away or they beat you home. They are very cute and as entitled to be on the planet as I am, and when they pay the Council tax that will extend to the lounge.
Usually its tradesmens efforts to knock off early. big crude holes for drainage, central heating , rising mains and most recently a gas feed where a blanking plate was left hanging off.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/PROCTER-HUMANE-TRIP-TRAP-M...
I chuck them back in the woods, at least 1/4 mile away or they beat you home. They are very cute and as entitled to be on the planet as I am, and when they pay the Council tax that will extend to the lounge.
XB70 said:
There was absolutely no way he was going to come out of this but still, despite the massive size difference, he was going to go out fighting.
So I went and got a plastic container, very very carefully put him in and walked down the road to some bushland and let him go.
Exactly. So I went and got a plastic container, very very carefully put him in and walked down the road to some bushland and let him go.
If an animal/insect is willing to stare defiantly into the jaws of certain death then it probably deserves to live.
XB70 said:
bacchus180 said:
is that rusty because you throw them in a bucket of water to kill them afterwards?
Nice trap by the way.. I want one of those.. perfect!.
I was wondering about that rust too....Nice trap by the way.. I want one of those.. perfect!.
I would have thought this would be as successful as the one I used?
http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mvf/store/product...
http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mvf/store/product...
It's funny I've just seen this thread, I found a few brown tic tacs under the kitchen sink last night. I've got the hard decision of either a humane trap or a bloody neck snapping 'saw' like device. Not sure If I want to kill it/them or release - however beheading the culprit might be a warning to the mouse community. May put it on the washing line for them all to see, it worked for bane... Will keep you updated.
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