There's a moose loose in t'hoose.

Grenage

Mice released a distance away from their normal run will apparently die anyway.  It might seem more humane, but it probably isn't.

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Jeepers_Creepers said:

He's pretty sure it's just one mouse. :-)   

There is no such thing.

Rentokill poison bait, kills as close to instantly as you could hope for, leave it at the point of entry or where they are eating and if you put the tray down on a sheet of kitchen towel then disposal is easy.

FaceHead

Jeepers_Creepers said:

Thanks.

I know he wants to avoid killing them - if there's a decent alternative.

I did mention the 'live' traps, and that he could then drop them over the edge of his 6-th storey roof... (I was only kidding).

I suspect he'll try the repellent first, and he should know quite quickly if it works - as he sees the mouse most evenings... :-)   

Whilst I agree that poison or spring traps are the right answer, if he did go for the human trap and threw the mouse off a 6th floor window, it would be unharmed by the fall, so seems like a good option. 

Jeepers_Creepers

FaceHead said:

Jeepers_Creepers said:

Thanks.

I know he wants to avoid killing them - if there's a decent alternative.

I did mention the 'live' traps, and that he could then drop them over the edge of his 6-th storey roof... (I was only kidding).

I suspect he'll try the repellent first, and he should know quite quickly if it works - as he sees the mouse most evenings... :-)   

Whilst I agree that poison or spring traps are the right answer, if he did go for the human trap and threw the mouse off a 6th floor window, it would be unharmed by the fall, so seems like a good option. 

I did wonder - even as I joked about it. It might enjoy it too much, tho', so could come back for more.

daivid

Jeepers_Creepers said:

FaceHead said:

Jeepers_Creepers said:

Thanks.

I know he wants to avoid killing them - if there's a decent alternative.

I did mention the 'live' traps, and that he could then drop them over the edge of his 6-th storey roof... (I was only kidding).

I suspect he'll try the repellent first, and he should know quite quickly if it works - as he sees the mouse most evenings... :-)   

Whilst I agree that poison or spring traps are the right answer, if he did go for the human trap and threw the mouse off a 6th floor window, it would be unharmed by the fall, so seems like a good option. 

I did wonder - even as I joked about it. It might enjoy it too much, tho', so could come back for more.

I remember my A-level physics teacher telling us that the terminal velocity of a mouse was insufficient to kill it but that of a rat was. Seemed like a cruel way to tell the two apart...

SaintJudy

I used these humane traps and they worked brilliantly, once they caught one I took it over to Hampstead Heath and let it go. Caught about five altogether in the end  

Jeepers_Creepers

Ah! Did one of them have a distinctive whitish patch on its left ear? I thought so :-(   

twopenny

Can't remember how I did it but pre 'humane traps' I caught a couple using a jam jar and tipping them into a bucket then taking them for a walk to the park. They didn't come back because I blocked the hole throughly.

In later years some somehow got into the attic and called it home in the really cold spells. I was fine with that as they then left in better weather.

I've even caught one or two by the tail and given them an outdoor life. Not as difficult as it sounds. Notably one in a bath at college. But it was fast, ran up my arm and hid at the back of my neck. Asking someone to get it off, even the biology lot, no one would. Just went outside and did it myself.

Ganga

twopenny said:

Can't remember how I did it but pre 'humane traps' I caught a couple using a jam jar and tipping them into a bucket then taking them for a walk to the park. They didn't come back because I blocked the hole throughly.

In later years some somehow got into the attic and called it home in the really cold spells. I was fine with that as they then left in better weather.

I've even caught one or two by the tail and given them an outdoor life. Not as difficult as it sounds. Notably one in a bath at college. But it was fast, ran up my arm and hid at the back of my neck. Asking someone to get it off, even the biology lot, no one would. Just went outside and did it myself.

I cannot imagine many if any body on this forum picking up a wild mouse and being happy when it ran up their arm ,would make good footage for You have been framed  , mind in my youth ( i am now 70 ) i used to have two white mice that i picked up for fun ,now!! a different story. 

JIL

I had a humane trap in the loft, after hearing scratching noises, laying in bed one night there was a rattling noise. Poor husband was woken up and went into the loft to check, sure enough there was a mouse in the trap.

 He picked up the trap but as he did so, the door to the trap opened and the mouse fell out of the trap and some how, through the loft door and it ran under the divan bed in the spare room.

 We couldn't find it at all. We shut the bedroom door. We then had to resort to a proper trap in the bedroombaited with chocolate, which eventually got the poor mouse. Later when we moved the bed, we saw that it had chewed the carpet and the plastic lining bit on the corner of the bed making a nest. 

 It was there for no more than 48 hours on it's own. What damage can they do if left in gangs for much longer.  No more humane traps in our house.