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What you need to do is get a bucket, have some kind of ladder for the mouse to climb that'll put him above the bucket. put alittle peanut butter around the rim of the bucket and down the inside alittle. The little sucker will fall in, and not be able to jump out.
 
Originally posted by: Itchrelief

I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash.
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I'm glad you couldn't go through with it but how on earth did you even THINK of that??? That is just wrong - really, really wrong. Smash a living creature with a hammer??? Wow.

And OP, bring a few cats home. Everybody knows somebody who has cats. Even a 2-month old kitten can be a highly efficient killer. Let nature do its work. That way, everybody wins. Except the mouse, that is.
 
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Originally posted by: Itchrelief

I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash.
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I'm glad you couldn't go through with it but how on earth did you even THINK of that??? That is just wrong - really, really wrong. Smash a living creature with a hammer??? Wow.

And OP, bring a few cats home. Everybody knows somebody who has cats. Even a 2-month old kitten can be a highly efficient killer. Let nature do its work. That way, everybody wins. Except the mouse, that is.
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I guess you never skinned at catfish. Those damn things take a few whacks of a hammer to kill. And just think, I'm not even a serial killer yet. :roll:
And I believe the OP has a few cats.
 
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Originally posted by: Itchrelief

I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash.
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I'm glad you couldn't go through with it but how on earth did you even THINK of that??? That is just wrong - really, really wrong. Smash a living creature with a hammer??? Wow.

And OP, bring a few cats home. Everybody knows somebody who has cats. Even a 2-month old kitten can be a highly efficient killer. Let nature do its work. That way, everybody wins. Except the mouse, that is.
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Well, considering that I couldn't go through with it and it died instead a slow, excruciating death by dehydration/starvation in a trash bag, I think that it would have been better for the mouse had I been able to end its suffering in one swift, overwhelmingly decisive blow to the head. I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
 
Originally posted by: gsethi
Originally posted by: Dubb
some mice are just gifted.

at my folks cabin, there was a pretty serious mouse problem. traps in the closets/walls didn't work, so my dad put poison in thr crawl space under the floor.

middle of the night, my parents woke up surrounded by the poison pellets. in their bed. the mice had taken the pellets up throught the walls and pushed them down on top of them through a knothole in the ceiling.
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wow..smart mouse trying to turn the tide on your parents...so how did you guys got rid of them ?
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the house was so old that the problem was never really "solved." my dad sealed up a few of the places he thought they were getting in, and that helped a bit. sticky traps work pretty well too. I think he was trapping around 30 a year at first, but it's now more like 10-15. just gotta clean em out and set new ones everytime someone goes up there.

FWIW, what we think is more likely is that the mice had a "pantry" in the ceiling, and were taking the pellets up there to store, but they kept falling out through the knothole. there was a dog in the room with them at the time as well...vet put her on vitamin K for a few weeks, nothing of note happened.

 
Originally posted by: Lucifer
Have you tried glue traps? My dad used them to catch lizards that kept leaving droppings all over our walls in our garage. He caught probably 10 of them in 2 days. Im sure it will work for the mouse.
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ahaha... i used to live in an apt in nyc that had a mouse. so i set a couple of glue traps behind the tv and bookcase. so one day the house appeared and my dog(toy fox terrier) started after it. he chased it behind the bookcases and got stuck. poor dog... he had 3 paws and his belly stuck on that thing. and you see him stumble out from behind. and i had to slowly peel that thing off of him. i didn't realize that water would wash the glue right away.
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
Darwin at work. We have killed all the stupid mice with simple traps, and only the smarter mice were left alive to procreate. So we stepped up the traps, and only the super smart mice remain.

soon, mice will be taking classes at night school on how to take over the world. One day, they will win and we will be screwed. I just hope I can get smart enough to get the pizza from the human trap without tripping it.
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LOL, its actually true though. One reason rat poison doesn't work always is rats have "evolved" or learned how to detect and avoid it. I remember reading that many rats, when presented with a type of food they are unfamiliar with will eat a very small amount of it first to determine whether its poison or not. If it made them feel sick, they would push it out of their cages onto the floor. When they were in cages that the food could not be pushed out of, they would urinate on the 'food' instead.

Which is much more clever then my hamster, who on more then one occasional ate his own turds by accident.
 
Originally posted by: Itchrelief
Man, how do you guys get around to killing the stuff you catch with glue traps?

I caught a mouse in one once (it wouldn't trip the wire trap we tried earlier) and I couldn't bring myself to kill it. I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash. Every now and then it would squeak inside the trash can. Boy was I glad when trash day came around.

It didn't help that at the time we kept bunnies, and the mice kinda looked like small brown bunnies, only with a grotesquely wormlike tail.
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Its not possible to release the mouse from those glue traps right? There's nothing that would dissolve the glue.

Fvck I would have just smashed it. I figure thats more humane then letting it starve to death in a garbage bag.
 
We had a mouse problem once at my house. They were kind of dumb though because they would come out while we were watching TV or something. One time, we cause a mouse running around in our living room, I grabbed my sandal and slammed on the mouse. It was smashed against the stand of our speaker. I felt so bad after that =(
 
Originally posted by: Itchrelief
I caught a mouse in one once (it wouldn't trip the wire trap we tried earlier) and I couldn't bring myself to kill it. I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash. Every now and then it would squeak inside the trash can. Boy was I glad when trash day came around.
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We had to use a glue trap once because there was a mouse that was choosing holes in our food.

We caught it the next day we put the trap in the drawyer. It was so entangled on the trap there was no way we could get it off without severe pain. I wasn't going to let it suffer all that time stuffed in a trash bag in that awful position, so I drowned it first. I think that is the least painful thing to do.
 
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: Itchrelief
I caught a mouse in one once (it wouldn't trip the wire trap we tried earlier) and I couldn't bring myself to kill it. I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash. Every now and then it would squeak inside the trash can. Boy was I glad when trash day came around.
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We had to use a glue trap once because there was a mouse that was choosing holes in our food.

We caught it the next day we put the trap in the drawyer. It was so entangled on the trap there was no way we could get it off without severe pain. I wasn't going to let it suffer all that time stuffed in a trash bag in that awful position, so I drowned it first. I think that is the least painful thing to do.
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Would the mouse be in sheer terror while it was drowning? I guess it beats being burned to death. There's really no nice way to kill something though. I actually don't think it would have felt much pain if you bashed it with a hammer...but I'd feel to much like a sadistic 12 year old doing that.
 
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: Itchrelief
I caught a mouse in one once (it wouldn't trip the wire trap we tried earlier) and I couldn't bring myself to kill it. I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash. Every now and then it would squeak inside the trash can. Boy was I glad when trash day came around.
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We had to use a glue trap once because there was a mouse that was choosing holes in our food.

We caught it the next day we put the trap in the drawyer. It was so entangled on the trap there was no way we could get it off without severe pain. I wasn't going to let it suffer all that time stuffed in a trash bag in that awful position, so I drowned it first. I think that is the least painful thing to do.
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drowned it? painless? :roll: be a man and hit it on the head with a spade or hammer so it is dead in an instant.
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
just give the mouse some food every so often, and appreciate his ingenuity. why kill it?
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Because there's a non trivial chance it may be carrying the hanta virus

Plus, it's probably sh!tting in his food and water supplies.
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: Itchrelief
I caught a mouse in one once (it wouldn't trip the wire trap we tried earlier) and I couldn't bring myself to kill it. I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash. Every now and then it would squeak inside the trash can. Boy was I glad when trash day came around.
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We had to use a glue trap once because there was a mouse that was choosing holes in our food.

We caught it the next day we put the trap in the drawyer. It was so entangled on the trap there was no way we could get it off without severe pain. I wasn't going to let it suffer all that time stuffed in a trash bag in that awful position, so I drowned it first. I think that is the least painful thing to do.
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drowned it? painless? :roll: be a man and hit it on the head with a spade or hammer so it is dead in an instant.
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Or pull out a .38 and pop a cap in it....gangst style 😛
 
Originally posted by: Itchrelief
Man, how do you guys get around to killing the stuff you catch with glue traps?

I caught a mouse in one once (it wouldn't trip the wire trap we tried earlier) and I couldn't bring myself to kill it. I put it in a plastic bag and raised a hammer over the bag to bash its head in, but right when the hammer hit its apex, the mouse started squeaking like crazy and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I ended up tying the bag up and tossing it in the trash. Every now and then it would squeak inside the trash can. Boy was I glad when trash day came around.

It didn't help that at the time we kept bunnies, and the mice kinda looked like small brown bunnies, only with a grotesquely wormlike tail.
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I feel your pain. I ended up throwing one away while it was still alive as well. I know the most humane thing would be to kill it immediately, but that doesn't make it any easier to stomp on a living creature that size. I was only about 15. If it happened again, i'd try to use something other than a glue trap to start. If i did have to use one, i'd kill it immediately no matter how hard it was.
 
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: aidanjm
just give the mouse some food every so often, and appreciate his ingenuity. why kill it?
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Because there's a non trivial chance it may be carrying the hanta virus

Plus, it's probably sh!tting in his food and water supplies.
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:thumbsup:

People ... It's a pest! Pests are undesirable, unwanted. They are NOT fed cookies and danish cheese! They are also subject to extermination and annihilation as soon as the means are available.
 
I also have a super mouse problem. I have tried Chocolate and peanut butter. it turned out this mouse only ae cooler ranch doritos. I caught him using that and a glue trap.
 
He's passed on! This mouse is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! He's pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-MOUSE!!
 
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