Mouse Relocation Begins

[bec_87rb]

After setting out catch-n-release traps for a week, we finally caught a mouse. Not in a formal trap, rather hubby looks down while sitting in the livingroom and says, "Hey, mouse," and there was a little dark gray mouse sitting frozen, caught out in the open. I grabbed a cup and after some scuffling around the magazine rack, popped it over his

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[suegypt]

Also bad news: relocated small mammals almost invariably struggle and die, especially if taken far away. But true, what else could you do?

Peanut butter works well as a lure.

My FIL used to capture squirrels in humane cages and release them at the edge of the parking lot at "Walmarks."

[bec_87rb]

I guess the kind thing to do would be to set those snap insta-kill traps. One minute you're eating some tasty peanut butter, the next, boom, your head is crushed. Pretty fast.

[suegypt]

Just please GAWD, don't get glue traps. Unless you want to invite that karma...

[ellisbell]

I never knew I was afraid of mice until we had one in the first apartment i lived in in Chicago. I was up on the couch for hours. I guess it's just tiny scuttling things. They move so fast and hide under stuff and you never know exactly where they are lurking...I feel the same way about silverfish centipedes and roaches. Uck!

[suegypt]

Ewww.... I was staying with my sister when I was 19, on her fold out couch, fully asleep, when a GD COCKAROACH, one of those date-sized numbers, runs across my outstretched arm and under my sleeve. I was standing up in 2 seconds flat. Scared spitless of the damned things ever since.

[ellisbell]

My mom did her teaching residency on Maui, many years ago. I thought I had heard all the stories about it until I was on the phone with her the other day and I was complaining about roaches. She told me some hair-raising stories about the "palmetto bugs" out on the islands. Apparently they are everywhere and there's nothing you can do about it. It was hair-raising and I swore to never go to Hawaii.

[bec_87rb]

Imagine if you found them adorable, but their gnawing and crapping everywhere filled you with rage. You'd have freaked here; there has been quite a bit of panicky murine scuttling here at home. Dudes - right in front of my feet? In the daytime? Is that what they are teaching at mouse school nowadays?

[chhinnamasta]

Tis the season. We came downstairs to find one of our cats handling a small mouse like a soccer ball a couple of mornings ago.

[bec_87rb]

Well that sounds horrifying! I think it does have to do with cold, also the woods where they live is being progressively flattened, and it squeezes them to where ever has food and shelter. One winter before the dehumidifier could be shut down, I found one who had crawled onto the lip of the water collection pan, fell in, and drowned. Erk. Or, who knows, maybe he was a mouse gambler who borrowed some cash from a mouse mobster who got tired of not being paid back, and his little furry enforcers "took care of him."

[suegypt]

Maybe he was a rat fink.

[bec_87rb]

hee hee. Or that.

[suegypt]

Oh, Lord. Have. Mercy. !

[bec_87rb]

Having used them for crickets, I would never use them for mice.