*aaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww* So damn cute! (*chuckle* sadly the person i wrote this for is allergic, or it would have been the first thing I'd suggest.)
I have a couple issues with glue traps. 1) mice scream in a tiny little pathetic mouse way - not for the faint of heart 2) soft hearted folks and kids in the vicinity think that the mouse can then be saved 3)unless you know for sure that you can kill a live, otherwise uninjured mouse, don't use them
I had to do the dirty work for someone else's glue trap once, I don't like them, but I understand why you're advocating them.
Kitties are great mousers but don't always finish them off in a timely manner, and tend to think of them as toys throughout.
They're not anywhere near my preference, and personally I'd try (1) ferret urine, (2) getting a cat, (3)cat urine (pretty nasty tho), (4) fast kill traps of various sorts, before going with them. The getting a cat part is as much because mice will avoid cats by preference as it is for their mousing capabilities.
With a glue trap you have to be sure you're going to get to the trap very soon after it's been set off and that you're prepared/capable of killing the mouse as painlessly as possible.
Hell of a lot better than poison though. Poison makes it an unseen death though a harder one for the mouse. (I tend in general to feel that people should acknowledge the things they are responsible for in a more direct way than is often the case. If one is willing to kill mice to get them out of the house one should be willing to at the least deal with the dead bodies.)
I think I like ferrets and cats better than their urine, though I can still conjure up the smell of a house taken over by ferrets and cats (that would be 2 dogs, 6 cats, 3 ferrets, 1 mouse every 6 months.)
And I totally agree that you should be able to deal with anything you are responsible for killing.
I'm only willing to kill bugs sight unseen. They're just so... buggy.
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1) mice scream in a tiny little pathetic mouse way - not for the faint of heart
2) soft hearted folks and kids in the vicinity think that the mouse can then be saved
3)unless you know for sure that you can kill a live, otherwise uninjured mouse, don't use them
I had to do the dirty work for someone else's glue trap once, I don't like them, but I understand why you're advocating them.
Kitties are great mousers but don't always finish them off in a timely manner, and tend to think of them as toys throughout.
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They're not anywhere near my preference, and personally I'd try (1) ferret urine, (2) getting a cat, (3)cat urine (pretty nasty tho), (4) fast kill traps of various sorts, before going with them. The getting a cat part is as much because mice will avoid cats by preference as it is for their mousing capabilities.
With a glue trap you have to be sure you're going to get to the trap very soon after it's been set off and that you're prepared/capable of killing the mouse as painlessly as possible.
Hell of a lot better than poison though. Poison makes it an unseen death though a harder one for the mouse. (I tend in general to feel that people should acknowledge the things they are responsible for in a more direct way than is often the case. If one is willing to kill mice to get them out of the house one should be willing to at the least deal with the dead bodies.)
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And I totally agree that you should be able to deal with anything you are responsible for killing.
I'm only willing to kill bugs sight unseen. They're just so... buggy.
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or the rat story.
well maybe another day. anyway, thanks for the tips.
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