Mice :Evil Little Bandits or Nice Little Neighboors?

I never understood how poison works, you stick poison everywhere, the mice eat and die. So that means you just have dead mice behind the fridge and stuff - that's worse, no?

Mice have stinky urine though so maybe you don't need a mouse. You need a cat.

Don't use poison because then when the mouse dies, hidden away somewhere, it will go rotten and pong really badly.

Also, mice are a sign that you don't have RATS, because apparently they don't co-habitate.

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Fucking undead mouse. I saw a mouse the other day, so I put out traps. One of them snaps (while I was having breakfast this morning, lovely), a gawdawful screeching ensues, and I discover that the mouse had sufficient strength/life to run into the space between the wall and the stove. The trap got stuck under the stove and more screeches were heard when I tried to pry it out with a broomstick. I went to work, hoping that when I came home the little fucker would be dead. No such luck; when I tried again to get the damn thing loose I still was getting vigorous screams. Do I wait until it's dead and then try to pull the trap loose? The space is too narrow and it's caught too far back for me to reach in there and take hold of the trap.

Time, they say, heals all wounds. But in this case, let's hope it kills the little bastard.

Fucking hell. The mouse may still be alive--the trap now has been pulled UNDER the stove, and I hear a clacking from the kitchen every so often. I was already fasttracking kitchen renovation, including pulling out the stove, but....

the electronic plug-ins really work but you have to keep the frequency randomised or they do seem to become immune to it eventually.

The mouse MIGHT be a one-off; there's a second trap in the kitchen that hasn't been sprung yet. Do you find that the electronic plugins work?

Mice have stinky urine though so maybe you don't need a mouse.

I hear they have no bladder control and so trail urine everywhere they go. Nice.

That said, if we had mice in our place I'm not sure if I would try to kill them or to make friends. There are rats living down by the canal near where I live, and the little furry fellows really are teh cuet (even if they carry Weil's Disease etc.).

You know with animals that carry disease? why is the solution always to try exterminating the animals? wouldn't some kind of public health programme for them focussing on harm reduction be better for everyone?

Pest control programs always talk about prevention--not letting whatever it is get inside in the first place. Which would be fine by me, except I was insufficiently vigilant.

Caught 5 of these fuckers now, no remorse. Cleaning up blood with a bunch of napkins

nice mice

I have one little mouse in the pantry. Last time I let a mouse live, it had babies and they shat all over the shelves, so they had to go. I'm supposed to be anti-cruelty, but I was thinking diseases and all. But if that cute little bugger goes upstairs to where the flour is, he's toast.

You know with animals that carry disease? why is the solution always to try exterminating the animals? wouldn't some kind of public health programme for them focussing on harm reduction be better for everyone?

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Saturday, August 25, 2007 9:31 PM (twelve years ago)

kind of a neat idea tbh

I have more mice now. I haven't seen them, but I'm hearing more noise (more mice) But I watched animal rights videos during quarantine and am feeling sensitive all of a sudden so I may opt for the humane traps this time around. There is a field and reservoir next door, so I'll set them free. Where they'll probably be mercilessly devoured by cats or other wildlife or something, but it won't be on my conscience.