Alas, victory is mine...
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One time we had a mouse in the house and I left for a business trip.
The mouse managed to just get his leg caught. When my wife found him he was quite lively still. So I told her she needed to hit him with something - hard - and be done with it.
She got to the point of getting a hammer....and walking up to it while I was on the phone with her....but she couldn't do it. I swear I tried talking her into it for 5 minutes.
So instead she got a shovel and put the whole works in the garage where it was like -20 F - the poor thing froze to death overnight.
The mouse managed to just get his leg caught. When my wife found him he was quite lively still. So I told her she needed to hit him with something - hard - and be done with it.
She got to the point of getting a hammer....and walking up to it while I was on the phone with her....but she couldn't do it. I swear I tried talking her into it for 5 minutes.
So instead she got a shovel and put the whole works in the garage where it was like -20 F - the poor thing froze to death overnight.
I like the glue traps... they just get stuck to the floor of the trap and starve to death... no unsightly stuff to look at, just pick up the box and toss it into the garbage.
To the guy who let the mouse go into his backyard, I'm surprised the mouse didn't return. They say that's the worst thing to do, to set it free, it usually just comes right back.
To the guy who let the mouse go into his backyard, I'm surprised the mouse didn't return. They say that's the worst thing to do, to set it free, it usually just comes right back.
That's disgusting.
Sure, we want to get rid of them, but they shouldn't have to starve to death like that. Haven't you ever heard of a snap trap, or heaven forbid, a mercy kill? They're not supposed to starve to death on the trap, you're supposed to kill them.
No unsightly stuff? How about the still wriggling mouse as it proceeds to gnaw at its limb to get off, while skinning itself from hours of trying to get off? And if it does get off, it's going to leave a blood trail. Oh, and what about all that shit and pee on the trap because it's stuck to the one place for a long period of time, still alive? A trap that kills quickly will always be superior.
It's reasons like this why I think glue traps should be banned. There's no reason to leave them on the traps like that, it's unnecessarily cruel. Don't be a douche about it, just put them out of their misery instead of torturing them. That too much to ask? :angryfire:
Nah I was diligent about it and checked every day, at most they were stuck to the trap for 12 hours or so. If I found one I ended it quickly... The snap trap do not always work, that's the problem...
That's still way too long. They tend to rip themselves to pieces within a few hours. There's just gotta be a better way, ya know?
Sure you can come to my house and dispose of them for me. Barring that, it's time to spend less time worrying about the rodentia rattus class and focus more on saving the manatee or something dude.
It was so weird the OP had the critter in his car. My house has been afflicted with several types of infestations, and I learned you have to clean up and deal with your problem spots that enable their lifestyle at your expense.
If there's a lot of junk in the car they can take up residence as they're not fussy and even chew through paper. I'd get a through cleaning and vacuuming inside and keep that car spotless. If you do, they won't be back.
If there's a lot of junk in the car they can take up residence as they're not fussy and even chew through paper. I'd get a through cleaning and vacuuming inside and keep that car spotless. If you do, they won't be back.
I live in a cold climate. In the winter I may use my truck more and the car will sit for sometimes a week or so before I use it again. If there are mice in the garage, they may be initially attracted to the heat of the engine as it cools down and discover a nice little cubby hole to call home. I've seen where they will tear into your firewall insulation, pull that out and nest up somewhere in the engine compartment. Of course, the dog dish is out in the garage so there is a food source for them as well. In my (most recent) case with the car, there is a nice little channel to move through at the air intakes at the base of the windshield, which is also handy to the edge of the insulating blanket that is attached to the bottom of the hood - nice cozy place to keep warm and store food.
The best trap I've used is a five gallon bucket with a wire fastened to the top, splitting the rim. I'll slide the wire through the center of a beer can (end to end) such that it will spin and coat it with peanut butter. I then fill the bucket with about 4 inches of antifreeze and then put a little wooden ramp up to the edge of the bucket. We use this at our camp for the winter months. The mice will try to get at the peanut butter and then fall into the pail and drown in the antifreeze. Works wonderfully as obviously the antifreeze doesn't freeze and acts like a preservative such that the dead mice won't stink up the place. We'll usually find 8 or 9 of them in there in the spring. Win.
Haha... A few months ago I went to grab a shirt that I had left on the passenger seat and as I picked it up, acorns started tumbling out of it. Then I started the engine and turned the heater on to the lowest setting and heard a crunching noise from the nest the squirrels must have built. It had been a week since using this car.
So then I was driving and went around a turn and heard what I guess was more acorns shifting up above the front window. Then later I tapped around the area on the sides and top of the window on the interior and it sounded like acorns all in there. They are still in there. I should try to pry into it and videotape it or something.
So then I was driving and went around a turn and heard what I guess was more acorns shifting up above the front window. Then later I tapped around the area on the sides and top of the window on the interior and it sounded like acorns all in there. They are still in there. I should try to pry into it and videotape it or something.
But I ain't wrong in saying what I did.
It doesn't really take that much effort to decide to put a mouse in a trap out of it's misery instead of letting it starve to death.
Or using a snap trap for that matter. It's not that I'm worried about rodents, it's that I hate unnecessary cruelty. I'd say the same thing whether it was a rat, ferret, dog or cow.
Can't help you with the cow part... see the slaughterhouse old threads on here...
Not sure where you're going with this, nobody likes cruelty to animals or anything living. Some people refuse to step on a spider or even an ant. I go out of my way to save ladybugs flying around the house from time to time, or if I happen to be in a good mood, I'll catch a wandering spider and free it outside. If my kid is around and sees it and freaks, it gets the foot. Or if an ant happens to have balls and climb up my arm or leg, it's toast. I show no mercy to anything stupid enough to piss me off. That goes for mice coming into my house or any intruders.
When you have a bee or wasp flying in your house, do you go to painstaking lengths to capture it and set it free or do you grab the bug spray? If you try and save it's life, I can honestly respect that as a code of yours, it's cool. But you can't bitch out the guy who swats it, either.
I guess your point is not to have any creature endure a horrible death, which I understand... bug spray is certainly not a fun way to die. But when the bee is hanging out of reach, what choices do you have?
Not all traps are created equal. I personally don't like the snap traps, nailed my fingers once too many times, and it's dangerous to leave them around with kids in the house, so you won't convince me to go your route on this one, good effort tho buddy!