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How to catch mice?

  • 09-08-2014 1:08am
    #1
    evo2000
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    Right so they re this tiny kinda dopey mouse running around my house and likes to hang around my room... im just wondering is they re any way to catch this ****er and put him out of my house id rather not kill it since the way i look at is the poor ****ers only tryin to survive too, i just rather it could survive somewhere else!

    Any tips tricks on catchin em an releasing em?


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  • #2
    the_syco
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    If you do release it, do so far away or it'll be back. Consider a glass jar that he won't be able to climb out of, put food into it, and surround it so it can't fall, but the mouse can get into it. In the morning, put a lid (that has a few pin holes for air) on it, and bring the mouse to somewhere that doesn't seem to have many cats.


  • #3
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    the_syco wrote: »
    If you do release it, do so far away or it'll be back. Consider a glass jar that he won't be able to climb out of, put food into it, and surround it so it can't fall, but the mouse can get into it. In the morning, put a lid (that has a few pin holes for air) on it, and bring the mouse to somewhere that doesn't seem to have many cats.

    Ive tried that he seems fairly wise about going into it, and his well able to move haha, what sort of food would be best for baiting em ?


  • #4
    Pawwed Rig
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    evo2000 wrote: »
    what sort of food would be best for baiting em ?
    Chocolate


  • #5
    mosi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭mosi


    I got one of these when I had a mouse invasion a while ago:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trixie-Mouse-Trap-4-5-17/dp/B000WFI866

    It worked really well and they haven't been back. I picked it up in a local petshop so you should be able to find one easily enough. There are a few different types on the market. Avoid any that aren't see through, as you want to know for sure when a mouse has gone in.


  • #6
    boomerang
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    Sounds more like a shrew than a mouse?


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  • #7
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    mosi wrote: »
    I got one of these when I had a mouse invasion a while ago:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trixie-Mouse-Trap-4-5-17/dp/B000WFI866

    It worked really well and they haven't been back. I picked it up in a local petshop so you should be able to find one easily enough. There are a few different types on the market. Avoid any that aren't see through, as you want to know for sure when a mouse has gone in.

    That d be the job alright, can you get them in pet stores around ireland tho?


  • #8
    evo2000
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    boomerang wrote: »
    Sounds more like a shrew than a mouse?

    could be tis a tiny agile little ****er anyway haha


  • #9
    mymo
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    You can get live traps in some hardware stores.

    Check your room/house for anything edible, it must have a source of food or it wouldn't be there. Put any food in plastic boxes or tins, peanut butter works well, dried fruit too, something with a bit of smell.


  • #10
    Saster123
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    I once caught a mouse in a small bottle of water. Left it open on it's side with the bottle mostly inside a bag with some paper and food in it. hear it when it went in and put the bottle upright and shoved the lid on and release him in killarney (approximately 70km from where I was, find your way back now motherf****r)


  • #11
    gozunda
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    Live trap

    This one is very good. Try your local agricultural co op

    multiple-catch-mouse-trap709897.jpg


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  • #12
    wandatowell
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    Saster123 wrote: »
    I once caught a mouse in a small bottle of water. Left it open on it's side with the bottle mostly inside a bag with some paper and food in it. hear it when it went in and put the bottle upright and shoved the lid on and release him in killarney (approximately 70km from where I was, find your way back now motherf****r)

    Why did you travel 70km?


  • #13
    Saster123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Saster123


    wandatowell wrote: »
    Why did you travel 70km?

    Was going that way anyway later that day and the last time I caught wone and release it it came back so I wasn't having that again. new it was the same one cos it was missing toes


  • #14
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    Saster123 wrote: »
    Was going that way anyway later that day and the last time I caught wone and release it it came back so I wasn't having that again. new it was the same one cos it was missing toes

    Well this one is getting one chance, ill catch it and let it go but after that its facing the WRATH OF DOOM! for it haha


  • #15
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    gozunda wrote: »
    Live trap

    This one is very good. Try your local agricultural co op

    multiple-catch-mouse-trap709897.jpg

    Whats an agricultural co op ?


  • #16
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    evo2000 wrote: »
    Whats an agricultural co op ?

    Down the country ;) there are any number of agri co op - basically large hardware and animal feed shops. They stock an amazing selection of just about everything. If you are in Dublin etc head out of the city and ask the first farmer you meet...


  • #17
    mosi
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    evo2000 wrote: »
    That d be the job alright, can you get them in pet stores around ireland tho?

    I got mine in a small petshop in Dublin. My local hardware shop only had the lethal traps so I tried the local pet shop on the off chance they'd have it.
    You can also order a similar model online from Pet Bliss in Wicklow (not sure if it's as effective but I'd say they work more or less the same).
    http://www.pet-bliss.ie/acatalog/Friendly_and_Safe_Mouse_Trap.html

    As for releasing them, I didn't release mine all that far away and have had no returns. They'd usually go in to the trap late at night when it wasn't practical to take them away in the car. I was starting to wonder if the same mouse was coming back but as I've had none for a while now, I don't think so.


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