[TheComputerGuy]

I'm a softy too Synop...
(Mice ARE cute... Except when they're in MY house...)

BUT...

1. Mice DON'T belong in your house...

2. Kitties are supposed to kill mice...
After they play with it for a while... (Ewww..)

3. If your kitty kills a mouse, it is as nature intended...

4 Henceforth, you should feel no guilt.

You need a kitty!
They eat BUGS too!

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

"Please wait while the thought is being proccessed" "beep"

You'd prefer to be overrun with rodents???
You KNOW you want a "Bad Kitty: too!

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by TheComputerGuy

You'd prefer to be overrun with rodents???
You KNOW you want a "Bad Kitty: too!

No, I already said my dog keeps the mice population down in the house, and just like a cat, he plays with them.
I too prefer them dead instead of being in my house.
They carry deseases.

[Synopsis]

Ya, if worse comes to worse, I will have to kill the little guy. I just don't like killing when there is an alternative. If there were no alternative, he would have been dead mouse weeks ago. It may come to that if I can't catch him in the next few days. I won't spare my family's health.

[mkfarnam]

I'm sure that anyone who has use a mouse trap noticed that the mice can steal the bait without tripping the trap.
Remedy: wrap a small piece of cheese on the lever (prop) that hold the trap back. With the bait on the prop, it's impossible for them not to trip the trap.

[_redbird_]

I hate mice. And I take special joy when I hear the trap SNAP in the middle of the night.

<evil laugh bwaaaahaaahaaaaaaa bwwwwaaaahaaa haaaa>

What do you guys think of having our own Okie Pic Contest?

[karibear]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

I'm sure that anyone who has use a mouse trap noticed that the mise can steal the bait without tripping the trap.
Remedty: wrap a small piece of cheese on the lever (prop) that hold the trap back. With the bait on the prop, it's impossible for them not to trip the trap.

Sticky traps - AKA glue traps - work a lot better. Even a careless tail can catch them.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by karibear

Sticky traps - AKA glue traps - work a lot better. Even a careless tail can catch them.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, that's right!
But that takes the fun out of it. And those aren't cheap .
I'm still ole fashion and use the cheapest methods. If they don't work right, I modify them.

[LadyRobyn]

Synopsis, what are you using for bait?? Peanut butter worked well for us, but some of them preferred bits of dog food. (that is what they were after in our garage)

One tip... wash the mouse cube with soap and water and then use a paper towel when you place it so your scent isn't on it... sometimes I had to leave a trail of crumbs (or a smear of peanut butter) leading into the cube.

Karibear! I hate glue traps the worst... They would scream so loud when they got caught. I never used another one after I found a foot and a trail of blood... Even snap traps were better.

We had a HUGE problem with mice in CA, being so close to the fields and having a landlord that wouldn't spray for bugs or any kind of vermin.

Even having 2 cats and a dog didn't help... the mice would just walk right out and give them dirty looks.

[karibear]

Originally Posted by LadyRobyn

Synopsis, what are you using for bait?? Peanut butter worked well for us, but some of them preferred bits of dog food. (that is what they were after in our garage)

One tip... wash the mouse cube with soap and water and then use a paper towel when you place it so your scent isn't on it... sometimes I had to leave a trail of crumbs (or a smear of peanut butter) leading into the cube.

Karibear! I hate glue traps the worst... They would scream so loud when they got caught. I never used another one after I found a foot and a trail of blood... Even snap traps were better.

We had a HUGE problem with mice in CA, being so close to the fields and having a landlord that wouldn't spray for bugs or any kind of vermin.

Even having 2 cats and a dog didn't help... the mice would just walk right out and give them dirty looks.

Must have been really hungry mice we had. They don't do anything if they dive in face first! And I really hate the clamp-snap kind, they usually don't catch a lethal part, then I'd have to do the Evil Deed. And I don't like killing things, even when it's to put them out of their pain and misery. But I also hate having them in the house or in the pet food - and I really hate finding little piles of kibbles and bird food stashed away in inconvenient places! Not that any place is convenient, but it really sucks when you go to put on your winter boots the first time of the season and find the toes stuffed full. On the other hand, when we had a cat that did the work, she'd always put a cute little corpse in DH's slippers, which did terrible things to his blood pressure in the middle of the night.