MICE!

[dragonrider]

Get a no kill trap so you can release Mr.Mouse back outside.

Glue traps are cruel and it's a slow agonizing death. And rodents have even been known to chew off their own limbs to attempt to get free.

Yeah, the glue traps are awful and creepy. I found a chewed off tail stuck to one and threw all of them out. Don't use those. I don't like the poison much either, because that seems kind of cruel too, and also the mouse can find a nice hide-away spot to die and really stink up the place --- he gets the last laugh on that one. The snap traps are best.

Or another thing to do is to get some night vision goggles and sit in your kitchen in the dark with a 12-guage and blast anything that moves. But there can be some legal issues with that one, and you could possibly end up damaging something down range, like your cabinets, oven, refrigerator, flooring, paint, or plumbing. But if you REALLY want to get rid of that mouse....

[rebgirl420]

Yeah, the glue traps are awful and creepy. I found a chewed off tail stuck to one and threw all of them out. Don't use those. I don't like the poison much either, because that seems kind of cruel too, and also the mouse can find a nice hide-away spot to die and really stink up the place --- he gets the last laugh on that one. The snap traps are best.

Or another thing to do is to get some night vision goggles and sit in your kitchen in the dark with a 12-guage and blast anything that moves. But there can be some legal issues with that one, and you could possibly end up damaging something down range, like your cabinets, oven, refrigerator, flooring, paint, or plumbing. But if you REALLY want to get rid of that mouse....

I heard napalm works pretty well too :thumbsup:

[GrinKyle]

rodents

keyword....

besides its not like mice are going extinct.

[dragonrider]

I heard napalm works pretty well too :thumbsup:

Yes, napalm is very effective against mice, and it gives you a good excuse to do a kitchen makeover afterward. An EXTREME makeover.

The nice thing about the live traps you mentioned before is that you can do a prisoner swap later, and maybe get some of your bagels back.

[rebgirl420]

keyword....

besides its not like mice are going extinct.

Obviously, but they are living, breathing, feeling things. Respecting life, especially an innocent little mouse who is only doing what you would be doing if you were him, is what seperates us from the more basic primates.

Put yourself in his shoes (yes, I know mice don't wear shoes), would you want to be needlessly tortured before you died?

[TheChameleon]

Go to home depot and get a 5 gallon bucket and a piece of 1/2 pvc pipe. Drill holes on both sides of the bucket then slip the pipe in the holes. Screw or glue a 2 or 3" platform to the center of the pipe horizontal to the pipe. Put a dab of PB on the end of the platform. Now put 4 inches of water in the bucket. The disease ridden mouse will fall in the bucket and never be able to get out. The varmint will drown.

[dragonrider]

Obviously, but they are living, breathing, feeling things. Respecting life, especially an innocent little mouse who is only doing what you would be doing if you were him, is what seperates us from the more basic primates.

Put yourself in his shoes (yes, I know mice don't wear shoes), would you want to be needlessly tortured before you died?

Yeah, I'd say a fellow critter deserves either a live trap-and-release or a quick, clean kill. I don't believe in cruelty.

But I do consider my home to be my "lair," and woe be it to any univited creature who ventures into my lair! Bwaaaaah-hahahaha! I won't torture it, but I do reserve the ultimate power of life and death within my tiny realm. I put spiders outside when I can catch them, and I squicsh them when I can't. And if I could trap and release a mouse without much trouble I would do that too. I just heard that the live traps are less effective, and you really can't have mice running around. There are some serious health concerns about that.

[dragonrider]

Go to home depot and get a 5 gallon bucket and a piece of 1/2 pvc pipe. Drill holes on both sides of the bucket then slip the pipe in the holes. Screw or glue a 2 or 3" platform to the center of the pipe horizontal to the pipe. Put a dab of PB on the end of the platform. Now put 4 inches of water in the bucket. The disease ridden mouse will fall in the bucket and never be able to get out. The varmint will drown.

Bucket full of drowned mice. Nice.

How is that better than a snap trap?

[LolaGal]

Dragonrider, I have not laughed that much in a month.....hilarious.....I especially liked the prisoner swap!

RebGirl420- If you take the mice outside, they just come back in the next day. Mice have lots of diseases, and who wants the little bastards crawling on your silverware. See one mouse, must be 10 in house. But if you're really worried about their little mousy feelings, I guess we could give em the lethal injection, call a priest etc. where do I get the tiny little needles? (I do agree about the glue traps, had one escape one once and it climbed into my stove and got stuck in the stove insulation and died)

[rebgirl420]

Human beings have plenty of diseases too but we don't stick the unfortunate ones to a glue trap and hope they die.

I'm glad it's so funny and tounge in cheek. If it was your life I'm sure you wouldn't be so nonchalant.