Let him go so he can breed and bring his mates back, have you not seen the plague in Aussie chewed through wiring and burnt the house down !
bill1451,
May 31, 6:35am
aand people cs=atch them and release, and the wonder why their house burns down, like that one in Aussie.
hound31,
May 31, 7:08am
Crikey, your mousies get a flash "last supper", mine only get Pams lol. I don't like peanut butter so it's their special jar, kept in the "mouse kit" for winter.
hound31,
May 31, 7:16am
Oh good grief, I second the rat horror! I used to live semi rural. One winter I had flooding under the house (long story), the pump had seized up and I was bucketing water out to the driveway. I happened to look behind me and there was a dirty big rat floating upside down behind me, I swear that nearly finished me, it was the stuff nightmares are made of! As for disposing of the bodies, logically I know they're stiff as a board and dead. but I'd get a garden shovel and a supermarket bag, and I'd still be getting the shudders because I could imagine them running up the handle to get me! There's something about their horrible tails blerk!
pauldw,
May 31, 8:18am
Rats and mice have teeth that keep growing so they chew on anything handy just to keep their teeth short. They don't chew on water pipes looking for water.
shelleigh,
Jun 1, 2:47am
Bill I've never understood people that do that. I really like those Better mouse traps because the critter is killed instantly and I don't have to touch them. They get released straight into the skip! And anytime we hear scurrying around in the ceiling. bait gets put up there and is effective very quickly thank goodness!
lakeview3,
Jun 1, 3:12am
I will admit I have done a catch and release before! Guilty as charged!
Anyway I think we already have some of those better traps so we just need some peanut butter and we are good to go! 👍
hound31,
Jun 1, 3:44am
Crunchy or smooth? Only asking cos I gave everyone on here a good laugh asking what the mice preferred lol In my defence, I don't eat the stuff so I didn't know if the little meeces teeth could manage the lumps.
lakeview3,
Jun 1, 4:02am
crunchy of course!
My mouse used to love sunflower seeds with the shells on. I used to love watching her bite along the side and peel the shell off and then holding the seed in her little hands as she nibbled it along in a zigzag fashion. 🐭😍
bryalea,
Jun 1, 4:54am
My son told me yesterday that he was sitting in his computer room and a mouse came in the top window and down the curtain and across the computer table and disappeared over the back. 2 evenings in a row and he pointed out the window is now shut! We do have a rat/ mouse problem in our old house and he has been setting traps and bait and winning now I hope. but maybe not with the meece so much as the rats.
joanie04,
Jun 1, 5:07am
I saw a mouse shoot across my small hallway and into my office one day. This place used to the dairy company shop and there a small holes in various places in the floor. Set a trap in the office and forgot about it. Some time later I could smell dead rodent. Got the ladder out and checked the rat trap in the ceiling. That was empty. Then it dawned on me the mouse trap in the office. One large very dead mouse.
sue1955,
Jun 1, 5:16am
Pics Crunchy here (only because that's what I like). I have noticed that if the trap is well filled the mice are able to feed easily, but if a little is put in they have to work to get it allowing the spring to activate sooner. Unfortunately I've had 2 mice only just caught & the screaming is not nice to hear. I'll admit to releasing them (we're in the country), but husband just chucks the trap outside until they die.
hound31,
Jun 1, 7:38am
I've never heard the screaming thank goodness. My traps are in the bottom shelves of the kitchen cupboards ( I won't keep pots in there now, just cleaning stuff). The meeces just clatter and bang around in the trap gives me a hell of a fright and occasionally makes the lazy old JR open one eye lol. I leave it till the morning to dispose of them to make sure they're well and truly dead. I love animals, but there's just something about mice and rats that makes me shudder, and yes, I only smear a tiny bit on the trap.
sue1955,
Jun 1, 5:42pm
Update to the screaming half caught problem. Said husband threw one out the door last night & now the trap & caught mouse have disappeared. He's off to buy another trap today & won't be doing that again.
lindymf55,
Jun 1, 9:26pm
Eeeeeekkkkkkkkk
After all these posts, I'm going to get some traps. just in case.
voyager4,
Jun 1, 9:38pm
Sneaky little blighters can squeeze through small gaps, incl louvre windows, under doors, around pipes, etc. Especially the smaller field mice.
shelleigh,
Jun 2, 1:55am
LV I just use about a teaspoon of Pam's strawberry jam. I think anything sweet would attract the horrible critters.
joanie04,
Jun 2, 5:10am
Daughter and her BF had gone away for 10 days. When she came home squatters had just moved in. Probably from an open door when the bird sitter was coming and going. One cheeky one decided to take up residence in her computer tower. Didn't live long, was caught the next day in a better mouse trap with peanut butter
lakeview3,
Jun 2, 5:38am
cool thanks I will let the trap setter (mr lv) know that jam is good 👍
solarboy,
Jun 2, 9:43am
I bought some of the grey plastic traps some years ago and they worked well for a while but the thin coil springs broke, stretched or rusted and the fine toothed jaws led to a lot of empty, sprung traps. I ditched them and started using the bigger, black traps with the semi-circular chrome spring and BIG teeth. Baited with peanut butter they have never failed to catch and hold ! Bonus was they were about half the price of the grey ones, so about $5 from Mitre 10 !
tegretol,
Jul 22, 3:14am
Where did you release it?
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