Mouse Traps - Good Lord

MayDay10

I just bought a house, moved in.
We discovered mouse droppings in the garage. They seem to be getting in at night. In order to put a stop to this, my father in law brought over these sticky pad mouse traps. Put peanut butter in the middle, set the pad down, and the mouse gets on and dies. Real easy. Maybe there was some fast acting poison in the glue or something.

So the 2nd day of setting them, I found a mouse on the pad and reality set in. Holy shit. This poor thing.

The mouse was stuck on the pad, which was displaced about 5 feet from a struggle. There was some fur ripped off and stuck to the pad. The mouse was laying there a bit, half on top of its last glorious feast of peanut butter. The mouse moved a little and I realized it was still alive. I couldnt figure out a way to kill it quickly and I had to leave for work. I called home and asked my wife to find a way and she did not.
So I get home from work and checked on the trap. It was moved a little more. The mouse was dead. A lot of fur ripped out and stuck to the pad, along with part of the mouse's hand. The mouse had pooped himself a lot too.

I have been really upset I did this to something. I picked up the remaining devices of torture and I ordered some humane ones off Amazon. I feel horrible though. Why didnt I think of this?

loveontwolegs

This is a horrible story, but don't be so hard on yourself. When we know better, we do better, and that sounds to be exactly what you are doing.

In the future, if you are ever looking for a humane way to end an animal's life, such as a trapped mouse, or a half run over bird or something, you can put them in the freezer. The cold numbs pain receptors, and the suffering ends before they are dead, which is fairly quick.

EmBleve

:( I'm sorry that happened. Like loveontwolegs said, learn from it, move on.
I pop mouse traps when I find them empty. :shock:
It will be okay. He's out of misery now.

PJ88

Just purchase some Have-A-Heart Traps. Put the food in one end, mouse goes in, sets off trigger and cage door shuts. Then take said cage with mouse in it and drive. Drive far away. You then release caged mouse into the wild. You let them go far from your home because I have read that if you release them too close to your home, they come right back. Look into the traps and good luck!

RKCNDY

and what are you going to do with the mouse when it is still alive in the trap?

mice have a gestation period of about 21 days, each mouse can have 6-10 babies in each litter, and reach maturity in 4 weeks...just think how many mice you will have in 3 months!

mice carry all sorts of diseases many of which are communicable to humans.

We had a mouse problem last year, and I set glue traps, and regular snap traps...never caught the little fucker. Finally brought the outside cats into the garage...no more mouse! If you don't like cats, you can ask a friend for some used cat litter to place in trays to set around the garage. Mice have an excellent sense of smell and if they smell a cat/cat excrement, they will vacate the area.

loveontwolegs

RKCNDY wrote:

and what are you going to do with the mouse when it is still alive in the trap?

mice have a gestation period of about 21 days, each mouse can have 6-10 babies in each litter, and reach maturity in 4 weeks...just think how many mice you will have in 3 months!

mice carry all sorts of diseases many of which are communicable to humans.

We had a mouse problem last year, and I set glue traps, and regular snap traps...never caught the little fucker. Finally brought the outside cats into the garage...no more mouse! If you don't like cats, you can ask a friend for some used cat litter to place in trays to set around the garage. Mice have an excellent sense of smell and if they smell a cat/cat excrement, they will vacate the area.

Not sure if that is true. I have two cats and just had to pay a pretty hefty sum at the mechanic. Mice had removed stuffing from God only knows where and made a nest inside my car, chewed wires, hid food. There were SO many corn kernels in my engine block!!

MayDay10

maybe ill do that.

With a humane trap, I plan on taking the mice to a wooded area, probably a few miles away.

I wouldnt mind a snap trap so much or something that causes immediate death. I just cant torture. I am distraught this happened once. Itll be worse when I know what will happen and I carry through with it again.


I also have to be careful due to my curious dog who likes to get into trouble.

jshin

You're gonna be surprised at how many mice you catch.. They reproduce really fast and move through the walls.. Two winters ago I saw what I thought was one mouse.. 12 mice later we were mouse free.. My advice, lay traps on every floor including the basement (if you have one) and once you catch them be sure to take them far from your home to a field or wooded area to free them... Keep the traps down even after you think they are all gone.
Good Luck.

RKCNDY

loveontwolegs wrote:

RKCNDY wrote:

and what are you going to do with the mouse when it is still alive in the trap?

mice have a gestation period of about 21 days, each mouse can have 6-10 babies in each litter, and reach maturity in 4 weeks...just think how many mice you will have in 3 months!

mice carry all sorts of diseases many of which are communicable to humans.

We had a mouse problem last year, and I set glue traps, and regular snap traps...never caught the little fucker. Finally brought the outside cats into the garage...no more mouse! If you don't like cats, you can ask a friend for some used cat litter to place in trays to set around the garage. Mice have an excellent sense of smell and if they smell a cat/cat excrement, they will vacate the area.

Not sure if that is true. I have two cats and just had to pay a pretty hefty sum at the mechanic. Mice had removed stuffing from God only knows where and made a nest inside my car, chewed wires, hid food. There were SO many corn kernels in my engine block!!

the corn kernels were your downfall!
I had mice because my dad gives me 50 pounds of apples every year...never had a problem till last year. Got rid of the apples, so the little guy decides to go after the dog food...chewed up the tub I had it in :x
I brought the cats in, and no more mouse...I also left their used litter box in the garage too.

ooohhh! if you have a dog, then DO NOT get rat/mouse bait! bad bad BAD when a doggie finds it...good lord...in 1 month, the clinic I worked at had 4 cases of doggies getting into rat bait. Not a pretty sight... :(

Poncier

MayDay10 wrote:

. I called home and asked my wife to find a way and she did not.

That must have gone over well..."Hi honey, I was running late this morning so do you think you can kill the half dead mouse stuck to the trap in the garage and then remove the remains before I get home, it kind of creeped me out."

MayDay10

yup. my dog ate a tray of rat poison once (at someone else's house).

I dont think he enjoyed eating the spoonful of h2O2 or having his stomach pumped later.

I would do snap-traps too. But I just know it would end up a dog trap.

DewieCox

Snap traps is the way to go.

I have to let my wife handle the glue traps.

The mice here laugh at the humane trap that we have. Never caught a thing. They seem pretty smart. Do anyone else's mice get progressively more comfortable with people around?

jshin

DewieCox wrote:

Snap traps is the way to go.

I have to let my wife handle the glue traps.

The mice here laugh at the humane trap that we have. Never caught a thing. They seem pretty smart. Do anyone else's mice get progressively more comfortable with people around?

We tried the humane ones at first.. One of the little suckers actually chewed a hole in the back of the damn thing to get to the peanut butter.. I watched it wiggle its little mouse ass in this hole..I was in shock.. good old fashion balsa wood snap traps are the way to go..

polaris_x

MayDay10 wrote:

maybe ill do that.

With a humane trap, I plan on taking the mice to a wooded area, probably a few miles away.

I wouldnt mind a snap trap so much or something that causes immediate death. I just cant torture. I am distraught this happened once. Itll be worse when I know what will happen and I carry through with it again.


I also have to be careful due to my curious dog who likes to get into trouble.

me suggest you go further than a few miles!

voidofman

There was a mouse that ate the felt in our piano, had some mini-mice. My dad got out the vacuum and... yeah...

conman

simple solution, get a cat or borrow a friends cat.... problem solved.

The Waiting Trophy Man

conman wrote:

simple solution, get a cat or borrow a friends cat.... problem solved.

Cats like to torture mice before they kill them, so I don't think the OP wants that, lol

conman

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

conman wrote:

simple solution, get a cat or borrow a friends cat.... problem solved.

Cats like to torture mice before they kill them, so I don't think the OP wants that, lol

yes but they like to do it privately, the OP will never see it :twisted:

The Waiting Trophy Man

conman wrote:

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

conman wrote:

simple solution, get a cat or borrow a friends cat.... problem solved.

Cats like to torture mice before they kill them, so I don't think the OP wants that, lol

yes but they like to do it privately, the OP will never see it :twisted:

Cats are rat fucks, lol

conman

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

Cats are rat fucks, lol

evil rat fucks..... i like it :P

justam

I think having a cat is the best option! :geek:

I would feel like the OP about actually killing the poor creatures in a trap.