Time for the Mice to Move Back Indoors
Like clockwork, the one night of colder temps we had last week brought back our unwanted housemates—the mice. So we’ll gear up for the usual one-two-three punch of steel wool, poison and traps, but aren’t feeling too optimistic. (Mrs. B is allergic to cats.) One neighbor of ours is in the process of pumping his…
Like clockwork, the one night of colder temps we had last week brought back our unwanted housemates—the mice. So we’ll gear up for the usual one-two-three punch of steel wool, poison and traps, but aren’t feeling too optimistic. (Mrs. B is allergic to cats.) One neighbor of ours is in the process of pumping his walls full of cellulose insulation, which apparently contains mouse-repelling boric acid—maybe we should try that.This got us thinking about the preferences (and ethics) of readers: Glue traps or old-school snap traps?
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Once my neighbor got a cat, I haven’t seen a mouse since.
Gee, I can’t vote because you only give 2 choices, both involve murdering cute little creatures. 🙁
Save the mice!
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Snap traps work if you bait them right. One night at this season many years ago, our bread drawer was getting raided by the mice. I set a trap there in the early evening and we sat down to dinner. Snap! Sure enough, a catch. Got up, reset trap, resumed eating. Snap! Another one. Got up, reset trap. Snap! Three in about 15 minutes. Young and stupid ones all, but solved the problem. Not usually so dramatic, but they do work.
Glue traps are awful since you end up listening to the mice struggling. Yuck! There are some breeds of cat with hardly any hair that most allergic people can live with, but those come at purebred prices. I did the stuffing-steel-wool-into-holes deal in a former apartment and it worked. Be sure to check behind the stove!
At one time, my mom switched from snap traps to glue traps–our cat got caught instead of any mice. Poor thing was so frightened it was running down the hall like a peg-legged pirate
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Cats may or may not help, depending on their disposition. Our glue-trap cat was useless; our other cat would bring live my into my mom’s bed and play with it until my mom screamed and the mouse died of a heart attack.
-sg
Third for ratzapper!(We bought the cheap model and it worked just fine.)
We tried glue traps and snap traps and caught nothing…
Spap’em. Pow! Squirt! It’s beautiful.
Second on the Rat Zapper. The red light is like “we have a winnah!”
We tried lethal injection, but we couldn’t find a gurney small enough for the little buggers.
What does steel wool do?