I Have a single, one mouse Problem, and Need Help!

[the other mike]

It's a mouse.

Kill it.

Not as cuddly as hamsters are they ?

Disease ridden vermin.

I guess they serve some purposes.
1) scientific lab experiments
2) employment opportunities in rodent control
3) an important part of the natural food chain ( a nice juicy rat is
KFC for a snake)

 

[farmer]

Get rid of that mouse as fast as you can. Trust me on this. One mouse just leads to more ,the mice outside can smell this one and will find a way in. Just because you have things in a plastic tote they are not safe, mice can chew through the steel on a grain bin, so plastic won't even slow it down. Use a kill trap because now this mouse will keep trying to get back into your home. Living on a farm my whole life I've been fighting mice and rats for over 50 years.

 

[Shawnee_b]

I hate mouse in the house. Outside I feed them when I feed chickens. They come running, smart little buggers.

Yes I have barn cats adopt me too, Cool. Got a pure black with pretty green eyes now.

 

[the other mike]

So much empathy for the mouse. Here, DIY trap.

I gave that animal cruelty video t thumbs down.

I didn't watch it but why ? Is their sulfuric acid in the bottom of the bucket or something ?
I figured they just couldn't climb back out.

 

[Shawnee_b]

Get rid of that mouse as fast as you can. Trust me on this. One mouse just leads to more ,the mice outside can smell this one and will find a way in. Just because you have things in a plastic tote they are not safe, mice can chew through the steel on a grain bin, so plastic won't even slow it down. Use a kill trap because now this mouse will keep trying to get back into your home. Living on a farm my whole life I've been fighting mice and rats for over 50 years.

What the puppy? Looks kinda Chi Crested which I have

 

[Ame®icano]

So much empathy for the mouse. Here, DIY trap.

I gave that animal cruelty video t thumbs down.

Cruelty would be if you fill bucket with water and mice drowns. She wants to catch mouse alive and release it.

 

[the other mike]

It's a mouse.

Kill it.

Typical life hating tard.

The symptom of a jaded society with factory farms , spoiled on Starbuck's drive-thrus whose
air force learned how to bomb people playing XBox games. Death's only real if you realize it.

 

[Compost]

I used to be all about not hurting the poor little mice in my house. Before long there were mouse turds on the kitchen counter every morning. Mouse traps didn't catch them all so I used poison. That didn't do the trick so I started feeding the feral cats. They hang around and kill the mice outside before they come inside (or come back inside).

there is no way for the mice to get in here unless brought in by the kitty, we don't really live near other houses either, they are field mice around here and I only have this one mouse, there have been no sign of mouse turds anywhere yet... so he or she must be doing it in the cellar or wall it is living in.... yuk! it must have been a baby mouse or male, because there were and are, no other mice, but the one mouse.... thoroughly enjoying the warmth inside it seems.... and outsmarting my cat....I just can't kill it.... maybe Matt could, without telling me... I'm gonna take the info Penelope gave me and see if I can get these no kill traps to work....

Uh huh. Good luck.

 

[justoffal]

A sticky trap won't kill him, but the glue is so strong till you'll probably pull his legs off to get him away from the trap. Have you considered one of those ultrasonic pest repellers? It might give headaches to your cat or any young girls that might be around, though. It's a mouse. Just kill him.

i just can't kill him or her, not after my experience of watching the mama mouse care for her young, a few years back.... can not do it....

IS THERE A WAY or trick, to getting the humane, no kill traps to work?

I have tried a number of those for some reason or another the mice just don't seem to be interested in them.

H

ok

Let me begin by saying, I have a kitty cat, who my husband and I love dearly! She was a stray, that found us and picked us, to be her caretaker, or chose us, to be her slaves....

the lord only knows where she came from...? We have several thousands of acres of forest that surrounds us and neighborhood with maybe 10 to 15 homes in the whole area, two others on our dirt road and immediate area.....

Someone likely dropped her off and dumped her, the only other option is there is a Lobsterman, that has a whole compound of buildings and barns on his property that sits back in, and off the road, about a quarter of a mile away that we have seen a whole bunch of different cats lounging in the sun near the road... maybe she came from there?

Well, my kitty LOVES field mice (and shrimp)(and rabbit).... the shrimp in Maine are tiny, popcorn sized shrimp, not like Florida where I used to Shrimp off a bridge near the condo I lived in, and could catch almost colossal sized shrimp right off the bridge at night! Yummy! But if she is from the Lobsterman's house down the road, then him giving the dregs of his fishing to all of his barn cats, would make some sense to her loving them....

Any way, we broke her from catching the field mice and eating the mice a few years back, thank God! But then she changed to just catching the field mice and then bringing them home, (through a window that she jumps to so to get back in if 'mommy kitty', moi, is not paying attention and checking the door for her majesty, that I usually leave opened, when she is outside in the summer....)

Well, all other mice brought in, the hubby and kitty work together to corner it, catch it, and then hubby releases it in to the wood pile away from the house.... a typical routine....

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She brought a mouse in, when I was not looking, the end of summer.... had to be summer, because I clearly had the window opened.... for her to bring it in, maybe I was taking a nap, or in the shower? I don't know?

Anyway, we could not figure out why she kept sitting in front of the pantry closet, for hours at a time, for weeks... the pantry closet with shelves we put in, is in Matt's mancave right off the kitchen, so I wrote it off to her just wanting to be near 'daddy kitty' when he was home from work??? stupid stupid me!

So Matt finally decided, something was wrong, can't remember what triggered him? But decided to take everything out of the pantry, and low and behold, on the ground, under the shelving, a mouse had a nice comfy bed made out of its of torn cardboard. What a CHORE and Nightmare, we had to go through everything, look for holes or openings to anything packaged and threw out half the pantry goods, just to be safe... the mouse likes pasta! and bit in to a beef broth carton for his liquid....

So Matt cleared out completely the nest and disinfected the pantry floor and all the scuzzy things that husbands are good for....

The mouse was never found.

HOWEVER, the bathroom off the mancave is where I have heard him... turns out, he fled to the cement enclosed crawl space below the house... he got in to the wall and flooring and crawl space by going through a tiny hole that the water pipes for our radiant heat, that come up from the crawl space, the heating unit is down there, plus the heating oil tank and water pump.... it's probably 3 and a half feet high down there.... we use it as storage....

I don't know what the mouse is eating now? we put everything in big plastic storage.

HOW CAN WE CATCH THE MOUSE WITHOUT KILLING THE MOUSE?

Do this....without the water

 

[okfine]

Get rid of that mouse as fast as you can. Trust me on this. One mouse just leads to more ,the mice outside can smell this one and will find a way in. Just because you have things in a plastic tote they are not safe, mice can chew through the steel on a grain bin, so plastic won't even slow it down. Use a kill trap because now this mouse will keep trying to get back into your home. Living on a farm my whole life I've been fighting mice and rats for over 50 years.

You can scream common sense, otherwise it's love it and live with it. My sister put a "cute" little mouse under the house. My Dad, who grew up on a Kansas farm, went ballistic.

 

[Thunk]

Why in the world would fret over killing a mouse?

It's a filthy rat! Kill the nasty thing!

 

[Care4all]

It's a mouse.

Kill it.

Not as cuddly as hamsters are they ?

I had a Hamster when I was young, called Hambone.... I LOVED HIM! I had to give him up when dad was transferred and we moved to Italy, and Dad had to get one of our neighbors to take him in, because I was not allowed to take him there....

 

[Care4all]

So much empathy for the mouse. Here, DIY trap.

Thank you americano, that seems easy enough.... but why did he glue the corn to the lid and wouldn't the odor of the glue, make the corn unappetizing to the mouse?

 

[The Original Tree]

Liberals will bring The Black Plague back upon us. Mice have fleas, fleas have plague, plague kills humans. No more need for mouse traps.

Kill the damn thing.

Get a mink for a pet

 

[okfine]

Anyone notice the mice, rat and gopher ads at the top of the page?
Amazing how that is.

 

[ChrisL]

ok

Let me begin by saying, I have a kitty cat, who my husband and I love dearly! She was a stray, that found us and picked us, to be her caretaker, or chose us, to be her slaves....

the lord only knows where she came from...? We have several thousands of acres of forest that surrounds us and neighborhood with maybe 10 to 15 homes in the whole area, two others on our dirt road and immediate area.....

Someone likely dropped her off and dumped her, the only other option is there is a Lobsterman, that has a whole compound of buildings and barns on his property that sits back in, and off the road, about a quarter of a mile away that we have seen a whole bunch of different cats lounging in the sun near the road... maybe she came from there?

Well, my kitty LOVES field mice (and shrimp)(and rabbit).... the shrimp in Maine are tiny, popcorn sized shrimp, not like Florida where I used to Shrimp off a bridge near the condo I lived in, and could catch almost colossal sized shrimp right off the bridge at night! Yummy! But if she is from the Lobsterman's house down the road, then him giving the dregs of his fishing to all of his barn cats, would make some sense to her loving them....

Any way, we broke her from catching the field mice and eating the mice a few years back, thank God! But then she changed to just catching the field mice and then bringing them home, (through a window that she jumps to so to get back in if 'mommy kitty', moi, is not paying attention and checking the door for her majesty, that I usually leave opened, when she is outside in the summer....)

Well, all other mice brought in, the hubby and kitty work together to corner it, catch it, and then hubby releases it in to the wood pile away from the house.... a typical routine....

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

She brought a mouse in, when I was not looking, the end of summer.... had to be summer, because I clearly had the window opened.... for her to bring it in, maybe I was taking a nap, or in the shower? I don't know?

Anyway, we could not figure out why she kept sitting in front of the pantry closet, for hours at a time, for weeks... the pantry closet with shelves we put in, is in Matt's mancave right off the kitchen, so I wrote it off to her just wanting to be near 'daddy kitty' when he was home from work??? stupid stupid me!

So Matt finally decided, something was wrong, can't remember what triggered him? But decided to take everything out of the pantry, and low and behold, on the ground, under the shelving, a mouse had a nice comfy bed made out of its of torn cardboard. What a CHORE and Nightmare, we had to go through everything, look for holes or openings to anything packaged and threw out half the pantry goods, just to be safe... the mouse likes pasta! and bit in to a beef broth carton for his liquid....

So Matt cleared out completely the nest and disinfected the pantry floor and all the scuzzy things that husbands are good for....

The mouse was never found.

HOWEVER, the bathroom off the mancave is where I have heard him... turns out, he fled to the cement enclosed crawl space below the house... he got in to the wall and flooring and crawl space by going through a tiny hole that the water pipes for our radiant heat, that come up from the crawl space, the heating unit is down there, plus the heating oil tank and water pump.... it's probably 3 and a half feet high down there.... we use it as storage....

I don't know what the mouse is eating now? we put everything in big plastic storage.

HOW CAN WE CATCH THE MOUSE WITHOUT KILLING THE MOUSE?

Is this really a "current event" though???

 

[Dick Foster]

Traps baited with peanut butter work really well, but use the old fashioned type with a strong spring.

I have a hard time, with killing the mouse.... a few years back, we were moving a quarter cordof wood stacked on the deck, off the deck.... and in the pile we found 4 baby mice with mama.....

it was freezing outside, near zero, so we stopped.... we went inside and watched out the window, this mama mouse come and carry one of these day or two old mice, down off the deck, then she came back and carried the 2nd one away and down under the deck, then came back for the third one, then fourth one.....

from that point on, I could never kill a mouse again! She was such a good mama, so worried about her litter that we exposed, so careful to come back for each one of them.... it was so beautiful to see how loving and caring she was.... I just could never kill another mouse....


is there any trick to getting the no kill traps to work? so far they are batting zero....?

Your choice, either kill them or learn to live with them. You're like my wife however we choose to kill the vermin rather than live with them. To humor my wife I've tried a live trap and never got anywhere with them. The only thing that does work are the old fashion spring traps r0that breaks their neck for a quick painless death. I've also use poison but you have be careful with pets around and you have to worry about what's going to eat a dead poisoned rodent. If you do deside to go the poison route, get Just One Bite, which you may have to go to a feed store to find. Deacon, available in most hardware stores, seemed like candy to the wood rats aka pack rats I was trying to get rid of in an out building a few years ago.

Enjoy your cat. I wish another would choose to move in on us sometime soon. Our last was a feral cat who was a great mouser as he lived by his own devices until he chose a life of ease and moved in on us. He's been gone a year now but he enjoyed a ripe old age and long life as all of our pets do.

 

[Bush92]

Traps baited with peanut butter work really well, but use the old fashioned type with a strong spring.

I have a hard time, with killing the mouse.... a few years back, we were moving a quarter cordof wood stacked on the deck, off the deck.... and in the pile we found 4 baby mice with mama.....

it was freezing outside, near zero, so we stopped.... we went inside and watched out the window, this mama mouse come and carry one of these day or two old mice, down off the deck, then she came back and carried the 2nd one away and down under the deck, then came back for the third one, then fourth one.....

from that point on, I could never kill a mouse again! She was such a good mama, so worried about her litter that we exposed, so careful to come back for each one of them.... it was so beautiful to see how loving and caring she was.... I just could never kill another mouse....


is there any trick to getting the no kill traps to work? so far they are batting zero....?

Stomp it’s fucking head. Had a possum that kept getting in my trash. Turned my dog loose on it one night. Wanted to play dead. Pulled off the dog and stomped it to death.

 

[Care4all]

yes, the hubby got frustrated and bought those, but then he said that they were so sticky, mice could pull their feet off, trying to get off of them....

so that NIXED THAT....

At a big warehouse in Texas I worked at years ago, going by on a forklift I heard a crazy
noise coming from over in the seed department. So I jump off and head over -- there's a big white glue trap
hopping around and I saw the 8 inch long tail-- so I grab a cardboard box and a broom walking towards it going " please be a possum, please be a possum..." ( or is it an opossum ?). No. It wasn't an opossum. It was the biggest rat I ever saw
in my life to this day..( about the size of a 2 pound baby opossum I guess) ..long story short - I managed to get the thing into the box, taped it shut and tossed it in the dumpster. ( I'm guessing it probably made it out somehow)
I still get creepy Willard chills thinking about that.

We have a creek nearby and Muskrats, which look like rats but with a chubbier look to them.... they are hunted here in Maine.... don't know if it is actually for eating, or for their fur? It probably is 2 lbs.... when I thought it was a rat, I asked my neighbor about it, who is always offering up his gun, to get rid of any verminous creatures or nuisances, like my skunk, of which I told him was my pet, and hell no did I want him to kill it..... I am grateful for him taking care of a pack of coyote that were showing no fear of humans and encroaching our properties near daily... he has a little girl, that they began approaching near daily and he simply 'took care of them'....

anyway, I wanted him to take care of this rat I kept seeing by this vernal pool/creek area, and he was going to do such, but later told me it was a Muskrat, and I didn't need to worry about it being a rat.....

 

[Bush92]

yes, the hubby got frustrated and bought those, but then he said that they were so sticky, mice could pull their feet off, trying to get off of them....

so that NIXED THAT....

At a big warehouse in Texas I worked at years ago, going by on a forklift I heard a crazy
noise coming from over in the seed department. So I jump off and head over -- there's a big white glue trap
hopping around and I saw the 8 inch long tail-- so I grab a cardboard box and a broom walking towards it going " please be a possum, please be a possum..." ( or is it an opossum ?). No. It wasn't an opossum. It was the biggest rat I ever saw
in my life to this day..( about the size of a 2 pound baby opossum I guess) ..long story short - I managed to get the thing into the box, taped it shut and tossed it in the dumpster. ( I'm guessing it probably made it out somehow)
I still get creepy Willard chills thinking about that.

We have a creek nearby and Muskrats, which look like rats but with a chubbier look to them.... they are hunted here in Maine.... don't know if it is actually for eating, or for their fur? It probably is 2 lbs.... when I thought it was a rat, I asked my neighbor about it, who is always offering up his gun, to get rid of any verminous creatures or nuisances, like my skunk, of which I told him was my pet, and hell no did I want him to kill it..... I am grateful for him taking care of a pack of coyote that were showing no fear of humans and encroaching our properties near daily... he has a little girl, that they began approaching near daily and he simply 'took care of them'....

anyway, I wanted him to take care of this rat I kept seeing by this vernal pool/creek area, and he was going to do such, but later told me it was a Muskrat, and I didn't need to worry about it being a rat.....

Set a kill trap in the water. The burrow into the bank.