Humane mouse traps

[Jane_Russell]

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

Despite having a terrier I am often plagued with mice.. of all sorts of varieties...the terrier does catch them.. but why does she have to do it in the middle of the night making enough noise to waken the dead????
jaki

Because she is chuffed to bits and wants to share her joy. A cat on the other hand will prefer to creep silently up to you while you sleep and drop the corpse in your face

Jane

[Garden Carpet]

Originally Posted by Jane_Russell

Because she is chuffed to bits and wants to share her joy. A cat on the other hand will prefer to creep silently up to you while you sleep and drop the corpse in your face

Jane

I just KNEW there was a darn good reason not to have a cat!!!!!
jaki

btw.. is you jr a baby?

ps.. i love cats.. so does the jr grrrr!

[henrya]

Originally Posted by Jane_Russell

Because she is chuffed to bits and wants to share her joy. A cat on the other hand will prefer to creep silently up to you while you sleep and drop the corpse in your face

Jane

Our cats, when I lived in Norfolk, used to bring the mice indoors alive and let them go, thus increasing the indoor population! Some of those were Yellow-necks.

henrya

[Mustela]

caught 2 more yellow-necks in my Mum's loft last night - that's 4 so far.

I'd like to get hold of some Sherman or Longworth traps, but they're a bit pricey. Does anyone know if there are cheap equivalents of similar quality, or if they can be purchased anywhere second-hand? I'm not hopeful on either count.

[insider]

Originally Posted by friendly blackbird

Hello,

I have just purchased two humane mouse traps from the internet. I have mice in the garage, greenhouse, shed and the garden. I don't want to put poison down or traps to kill them. Does anybody know if these traps work, I'm worried about being overrun with them as I do feed blackbirds and sparrows on the ground.

Thanks

Marie.

We found the plastic traps worked well,I allways get up early so they didn,t stay in to long,
they allways seemed fit when they were released,I allso blocked the hole ,but they started getting in my wifes car,so she left a trap in the car, and let them out at Woodhorn museum

[henrya]

Originally Posted by Mustela

caught 2 more yellow-necks in my Mum's loft last night - that's 4 so far.

I'd like to get hold of some Sherman or Longworth traps, but they're a bit pricey. Does anyone know if there are cheap equivalents of similar quality, or if they can be purchased anywhere second-hand? I'm not hopeful on either count.

An acquaintance of mine showed a Longworth to a metal worker and got some similar devices built much cheaper.

henrya

[smartie]

Originally Posted by Jane_Russell

Because she is chuffed to bits and wants to share her joy. A cat on the other hand will prefer to creep silently up to you while you sleep and drop the corpse in your face

Jane

No, the corpses go in your slippers for fun in the morning when you get up - it's the live ones they drop on your pillow

My husband has, over the past 20 years of living with cats, become a very efficient humane mouse and vole trap himself. I'm not so good at it and have to catch them by the cardboard tube method.

[firestarters]

yes humane mouse traps do work i have caught 4 mice in 2 days in the grill of my cooker.i have them upstairs under the floorboards.so thats where the traps are going next. but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT RELOCATE THE MICE AFTER YOU HAVE CAUGHT THEM!!!just let them go back into the garden where they came from and an area they know an area where they know where to get food and to find refuge. if you take them to a completely different place they will die in no time.just make sure you block up the place where they entered your home so they can't get back in.

[demicav]

I would always use a humane trap then release outside, not too far. I couldn't kill anything, I don't think I have the right to. I have a very good humane spider catcher ( not much good for mice though ) .

[Wightman]

Some words of advice, I had Woodmice last winter (20+) I bought some cheap plastic humane traps which where very effective (to my girlfriends disgust I baited them with CHEESE which worked very well), but you must check them extremely often because given a few hours the mice will chew through them and escape

Gary