urbandev

i just spent who knows how long trying to get a live mouse off of one of those idiotic glue traps that my moms boyfriend put out without torturing the unlucky fucker...anyone know how much the cage traps cost and where to get them?

i got him off then wrapped him in toilet paper to keep him from sticking to himself...i should have taken pictures

but i dont think he'll last long, his jaw looked a bit fucked up

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The Phenomenon

Thats bad man... I hate cruel things like that. What was the glue trap for?

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urbandev

some rat that was living under the stairs

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Nisses

Cruel, what's cruel? He could have put poison out, or traps that are harmful... Glue might be a bit of a mess if you wanna get it off again, but at least you don't kill or injure it.

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scout

I'm a big fan of Decon myself. No need for any messy cleanup with Decon. The mouse just goes off and dies, the poison sucks up any and all moisture inside the mouse leaving it in a somewhat petrified state so there's no stench. Beautiful stuff.

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Rekna

snap traps all the way

Baldrick

I'm not a fan of any poison anymore. In our office last year, we had a rat who was making himself at home. The exterminators came in and laid poison traps, and they worked! The rat stopped coming around!

The problem was, about a week later the God awful stench became unbearable! We tore the office apart looking for someones lunch or something they left behind. When the exterminators finally came in the next day to pick up their traps, they recognized the smell immediately as the dead rat. He died inside one of the walls, and we had to literally tear two of the walls down looking for him. It took weeks for the smell to finally die down enough to be bearable again.

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I wasn't aware you were supposed to remove the rodent from the trap. I always just threw it away.

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THGL

Glue traps are a joke! An old girlfriend of mine bought some for her house because she wanted to do the "humane" thing. She caught the mouse and the instructions said to use vegetable oil to remove the mouse from the glue. When she was done, the mouse was covered in oil and still stuck to the trap! She had to leave for work and didn't know what to do so she just left it outside... a nice, high cholesterol snack for one of the neighborhood cats! LOL

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The Phenomenon

For some reason I dont find any of this funny at all.

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MSD

The intent of the manufacturers is not for the mouse to be removed from the trap.

Cynthetiq

I have a snap trap sitting on my desk. I love watching people set it then jump then it snaps.

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maleficent

Poor mouse, it didn't even have asporting chance... I'm sick, the visual on that just made me laugh...

The problem with the glue traps, is you have a life, pissed off mouse that you have to pick up and do.... what with it?

Poison 'em - they just go away... DOn't worry, there will always be more mice... it's not like they are endangered.

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analog

Wow, you're right, i couldn't think of the name of that stuff. *writes it down*


As far as glue traps go...

It's pretty much supposed to stay there until it starves to death, or you find it and hit it with something big and heavy to take care of it. It's really best to just kill it, starvation is no fun. I've used the blade-end of a good shovel to give a quick, guillotine-like ending.

sherpahigh

Oh the irony!!

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Rdr4evr

agreed

Giant Hamburger

Put the glue trapped creature in a bag and turn on your car. Attach bag to exhaust pipe. Keep it there for a couple of minutes. Creature is painlessly done.

water_boy1999

For those of you who don't find it funny.....you are right. It's not. Lighten up. Would you rather have a house infested with mice and rats or find some sort of solution that can quickly and effectively get rid of them?

My roommate just bought a few boxes of this green brick stuff that kills the mice 2 days after they take a nibble. Problem is a bunch of dead mice in your walls. We are having a small issue with them currently, due in part to a lazy ass roommate and houseowner. I think it is the Decon as well because the garage stinks right now.

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todd

Good idea.

aurigus

For killing, that Decon stuff works will but then the mouse wonders off and dies wherever. I hate getting surprised with a dead mouse on the flood.

I remember my parents tried these traps for a while that looked like a square tube. When the mouse would walk in, it would tilt over and trap them in there. After that you could release it where ever you want. I think they got them at a hardware store.

Redlemon

I have one of those in my desk at work. It's called a "Mice Cube", by Pied Piper Intl. Inc.


Seems to work great; most have been catch-and-release, but I think one mouse had a heart attack or something. Very messy death, but it was contained in the Cube.

JStrider

idont like haveing to kill mice and rats... ever since i had a pet rat...

but when we do we usually use a snap trap....

i think i might look into getting some of thsoe mice cubes...

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Hanxter

so now he's in a toilet paper cast???

ratbastid

Say some more about that? Where exactly do you release them?

I have this vision of trapping a mouse in my house and freeing it in the woods behind my house, but then I realize... that's probably where he came from in the first place, and if he preferred it inside once, he'll prefer it inside again.

How far do you chauffeur your mice?

Redlemon

There's a stream that goes beside my office building. Way out in the back of the parking lot, there's a bridge over the stream. I release them into the grass on the other side of the stream, and hope that they don't figure it out.

I had about 4 catches over the period of a few weeks, but they looked like different mice. No catches for a couple months now, fortunately.

A bit of peanut butter on a mini pretzel is a great lure.

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analog

*claps*

Thank you for speaking your mind and not remaining silent in the face of PC nonsense.

They're vermin. They're not your pet, or your child- which, by the way, could be horribly bitten and infected with diseases if you do not rid your property of them.

So please do us all a favor and pick your battles with more care, or, actually have something to say more than what amounts to a drive-by pot-shot at us here in this thread.

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Bill O'Rights

I don't know why, but I laughed my ass off over this.

Oh...and I chauffer my mice to the trash can by the curb.

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Sp0rAdiC

I would suggest this as well, my family has always used one of these whenever we have a mouse running around, and it has always worked. No messy crushed mouse, no smells. Just throw some peanut butter in the end, wait, and then bring it out in some field and drop it off. Won't even have to feel bad because the mice don't have to die! Rats though... I've never had that problem, but I think you would need a bit bigger tube for them

Redlemon

Ok, NOW I'm confused.

Supple Cow

Those sticky traps are completely ridiculous. The ones they give us at my college instruct us to take the mouse-on-trap at least 1 mile away from our home (but who cares about any other homes)and then push it off the trap with the butt end of a pencil. Yes, a PENCIL. I defy you to find me somebody that can get a rodent unstuck from one of these traps by poking it with a pencil.

Impaling a rat on a pencil is not exactly my idea of a good time.

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raeanna74

In one apt we lived in we happened to get a temporary infestation. Told the owner who lived in the same building (home with apt attached) and his new wife was terrified of mice. So he searched diligently for all possible openings to seal. Hubby and I set snap traps around that his Dad gave us. It was bad though, the traps were old and didn't snap hard. Two out of the three mice were quite alive when we found then (after hearing the snap) hubby took his BB gun and finished them quickly though. We felt bad for the creature but wild mice don't belong in my home. There aren't a lot of clean safe ways of removing them. I do like that box idea. Will have to look for that next time we get an uninvited critter.

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urbandev

i think ill go buy a few of those boxes, exactly what i was looking for, im sure walmart sells them, they sell everything from fucking car batteries, to milk...

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mew

I agree with you.

I believe in a Safe catch and SAFE release. You can release them. But mind you, you must release them at least 2 miles away from your house or else they come back. A friend of mine white-outted one of the mouse they caught, and let him outside in his back yard woods about 30 mins out, and he was caught within 2 days. #1- release mouse far far away, #2 I cant believe the mouse was that stupid to be caught again in the same trap.

In search of a picture ...lol I came across this....top notch marketing right here...

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water_boy1999

Just curious, but how did your friend know it was the same "exact" mouse? Did they tag it's ear with a wire transmitter and track it's movement?

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mew
[B] I agree with you.

I believe in a Safe catch and SAFE release. You can release them. But mind you, you must release them at least 2 miles away from your house or else they come back.

This way they can infest someone elses house.

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Bentley Little

Shit, that is hilarious, I can just see it now, the mouse all fucking going crazy cuz it stuck to a sheet of paper!!

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MSD

(Leans over and whispers) Um, you're supposed to use the other end of the pencil.

They put a dot of white-out on its back.

Nazggul

Oh hell ya. I had a huge mouse in my house, used Decon. After a week it finally stopped eating the poison I assumed it was dead. Another week and OMG. I nearly had to tear out my cabinets to find the body.

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merkerguitars

Yeah never had luck with the sticky traps, usually our cats will catch them then put them at my dad's office door as an offering...lol

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Ok, now I am the idiot. Overlooked that aspect. Stupid mice....smart people....

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