Comments on: Livid (regarding a Mouse)

By: ArtLung Blog » Year of the Rat

ArtLung Blog » Year of the Rat — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:44:06 +0000

[...] JT said back in July, in response to my using glue traps to catch some mice—he was dead right about [...]

By: Thogek

Thogek — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:21:32 +0000

BTW, mice (and rats) can chew through a lot more than just paper packagings. When we had our garage-rat problem a couple years ago, the determined little buggers gnawed open a sizable corner of a heavy plastic dog-food canister (presumably to get at the dog food inside). :-(

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:50:24 +0000

Good luck, Joe! I hate to admit it, but I love your graphic :-D.

By: Joe Crawford

Joe Crawford — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:41:26 +0000

Hey Jukebox—
Lord knows we tried the catch and release traps in San Diego and the mice laughed at us. They’d get activated and no mice inside.

The snap traps kill instantly but we found that the mice could take the bait and run with it.

Regrettably, the glue traps have been the most successful. What we do when we catch one is to kill the mice once they are caught. Yes, they suffer, but the prospect of these mice alive, and having the run of the house, with their specific hygienic impact, is unacceptable.

If the little pricks would leave my house alone, I would not be a mouse murderer. For the time being, I gotta do what I gotta do.

By: Jukebox JT

Jukebox JT — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:00:57 +0000

Um… glue traps = bad. Snap traps end the torture in a second. Glue traps prolong the agony for hours, a mouse fighting for its life until it start hemorrhaging and spitting blood. There are also humane traps that capture them and allow you to release them into the property manager’s house without harming the mouse itself.

To help reduce the number you see, I recommend filling even the smallest holes, cracks, and crevices with steel wool. They can’t chew through it so easy. Be sure to fill everything, including spaces behind the appliances where there are tubes going into the walls.

Signed,
A former mouse murderer