Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

Biggles

kitschkitty wrote: »

PLEASE DON'T USE GLUE TRAPS, rats (and mice) can/will resort to trying to gnaw their own legs off to escape them - that's pretty nasty by anyone's standards.

That makes 'em easier to catch, though!

kitschkitty

Just because something is the easy option doesn't (neccessarily) make it the right one!

shoei

kitschkitty wrote: »

Peanut butter or chocolate are recommended (chocolate can kill mice & rats if they eat enough of it - laxative chocolate will do the job quicker - but when we once tried it they ignored it).

Now I'm no fan of traps but when you need to solve a rodent problem they have their place but as has been hinted at/mentioned above it's better to use something that's going to mean the animal is killed quickly by the trap as intended - hate to shout in caps, but PLEASE DON'T USE GLUE TRAPS, rats (and mice) can/will resort to trying to gnaw their own legs off to escape them - that's pretty nasty by anyone's standards.

I use chocolate on traditional traps and once found that they had snook the chocolate off and pulled the trap in to the corner. Went to pull the trap away from the wall and had the shock of my life when it pulled back!!! Poor mouse had caught its leg in it! I am all for natural methods of the cat but she only cathches the ones outside!

gardner1

kitschkitty wrote: »

Peanut butter or chocolate are recommended (chocolate can kill mice & rats if they eat enough of it - laxative chocolate will do the job quicker - but when we once tried it they ignored it).

Now I'm no fan of traps but when you need to solve a rodent problem they have their place but as has been hinted at/mentioned above it's better to use something that's going to mean the animal is killed quickly by the trap as intended - hate to shout in caps, but PLEASE DON'T USE GLUE TRAPS, rats (and mice) can/will resort to trying to gnaw their own legs off to escape them - that's pretty nasty by anyone's standards.

if rat wants to keep all 4 legs it should keep out of my bl00dy house

gardner1

hansi wrote: »

I have a mouse that visits my kitchen most nights leaving his souvenirs all over the place. I have put down snap traps. glue traps but can't get rid of him, The last time I saw him, he ran under the electric cooker and disappeared! I moved the cooker, there is no obvious way out, and I couldn't see any way he could get in the cooker. Could he be living there? If so, how do I get him out of there?

if your using snap traps make sure you use 2 in kitchen with peanut butter and place them either side of kitchen next to walls

Saturnalia

Yep, chocolate works. Most rodents will sell their soul for chocolate!

Glue traps are barbaric. When we had mice years ago our landlord came round with glue traps and told us there was poison in the glue that would kill the mice via their skin absorbing it. There wasn't. We got up the next morning and there were two mice stuck to the trap - they were terrified, crying, shaking, and that wasn't the worst of it, I had to kill them. I just couldn't leave them to dehydrate and die. I'm nearly in tears writing this, it was so horrible. Please don't use these things. Snap-traps and electrocutors kill instantly, they are the most humane ways to do it.

mel48rose

My partner reckons they love mars bars :rotfl:
He has caught many this way.

kitschkitty

gardner1 wrote: »

if rat wants to keep all 4 legs it should keep out of my bl00dy house

If rats understood that concept you might have a valid argument, but as they don't it just makes you sound a bit blood thirsty!

gardner1

kitschkitty wrote: »

If rats understood that concept you might have a valid argument, but as they don't it just makes you sound a bit blood thirsty!

at the end of the day they are VERMIN so dont feel sorry for them

shoei

gardner1 wrote: »

at the end of the day they are VERMIN so dont feel sorry for them

I completly agree they are vermin and I also don't agree that humane traps work unless you release the mice miles away, they just come back. But I would hate to think of anything suffering, I just would rather a quick clean death! But I have never seen them so don't actually know what the bennefits are over other traps?

Shoei