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Old 12-05-2008, 07:55 AM
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Default Humane traps mice/rats

We've recently discovered mice in our home, attracted by dog food I suspect?

Last time we had a rodent problem we resorted to baiting them. This time however, I decided to get a humane rodent trap.

S didn't have time to drill air holes (don't know why this isn't done already) so I placed a small obstruction between the door and the frame to allow adequete airflow without compromising the trap.

I placed the trap out last night with a little bird seed and some leftover pizza crust inside. Within three minutes of me walking away, I heard the trap shut.

I lay in bed feeling terrible. I know there are two mice in the house, and I felt sorry for the other one. I wanted to let it out and catch him again another time so he didn't have to spend the whole night in the trap. I really didn't expect it to happen immediately.

So S dutifully took the trap with him to work this morning, and after fueling up at a service station decided that the bushy area behind would be better suited to a mouse than the vast dirt of his worksite. He opened the trap and... nothing. LOL Obviously the trap had gone off prematurely.

Anyone have any humane trap success stories?
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Old 12-05-2008, 08:49 AM
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I was so intrigued reading your post....thought, oh - how nice that S went to put the mouse in the bushes....and then, the climax.... "and.....nothing".

I giggled.

Sorry - worthless post there. I don't have any help for you. Hopefully *someone* comes by shortly. I'm not a big fan of mice....or anything smaller than me with more than 2 legs
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Old 12-05-2008, 10:43 AM
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We've got mice and I've just bought some non-humane kill 'em traps. There is a bit of a plague of them atm, so think that letting them go probably isn't a nice option anyway. But that said, still wouldn't use bait - too dangerous for native animals (specially tawnys and owls).
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Old 12-05-2008, 12:38 PM
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Nope. No luck with humane traps either.

We had the best results from the grey ones that they crawl into before getting snapped. I think I got them from Coles. If I weren't allergic I would have prefered to just get a cat.
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Old 12-05-2008, 03:12 PM
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We have a little friend living with us too. We're looking for a trap, not sure what to get and what's available.
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Old 12-05-2008, 09:11 PM
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This is the trap I bought
http://rawstore.com.au/humane-mouse-trap.html
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Just make sure you check them regularly don't setthem and forget about them- otherwise they are not very humane (wasn't me by the way just someone i know)
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Old 13-05-2008, 04:57 PM
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Sorry this post isn't of much help, but I have a funny story?!

I once knew a lady, who hated the idea of killing mice in conventional mouse traps and bought the humane ones. Then she would take them to the vets and have them de-sexed. (20 yrs ago, it cost her $70 each time). Once they were brought home from the Vet's, she would release them to be with their furry mates again.

Haven't lived in a place with mice for a while.

Had a mice plague in Caulfield, when I live there in my teens.

I was raised in a single parent house. So, some nights, if there was a good movie on (that was going to run until very late), that mum and I both wanted to watch, I would hop into mum's bed. We'd pig out on movie snacks and watch TV.

Anyhoo....Later that night, when we were both sleeping, mum woke to the sound a rustling. Unable to find the source- half asleep- mum went back to sleep.

In the morning, mum woke me up, to breakfast in bed (she was a grouse mum) and placed her pillow behind mine so I could sit up and eat the breakfast.

She noticed, but didn't say anything, a dead mouse poking out of the pillow case.

Later, when I got out of bed, to have a shower, mum disposed of it and told me about it days later.

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Old 13-05-2008, 06:46 PM
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Old 13-05-2008, 08:14 PM
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Default Re: Humane traps mice/rats

ive had HEAPS of success with humane rat traps when we lived in an area that had a bit of a rat problem.

we have some living outside here but so far they havent caused a problem so im not going to worry about traps ( and we have local owls that need some prey)

keep trying with the traps ! good on you for not setting ratsak - that stuff is pure evil
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