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[Fumble]

does anyone have any safe ideas for mousetraps???  i went to get fumbles food today and i opened the top of the container it was in and 4 mice stared me in the facE!!  i am just as petrified as them as they are to me!  i have no idea why! but they do scare me!  anyone have any ideas for traps safe for dogs???

[cricket36580]

The glue traps work very well.  Just put them in the bin or behind it.  No poison and no springs...

[mjjensen]

 There are enclosed spring traps on the market that are safe around pets. There are also small "HaveAHeart" type traps if you just want to get them out of the house without killing them. The glue traps work but they don't actually kill the mice, they just get stuck and eventually die so they suffer unless you put them out of their misery which I have never been able to do. And once they're in the glue you can't get them out,believe me,I've tried. I live in a house that's close to 200 years old and mice have always been a problem even when I had cats. The easiest way I have found to deal with them is to put a small deep container(I use a small bathroom type garbage can) with a little bit of dry dog food or bird seed in it in an out of the way place where the pets can't get to it. Make it easy for the mice to get to the top of it and they'll jump in to get the food and won't be able to get out. I check it every couple of days and if there are mice in it I take the bucket out and let them go in the field behind the house. It's cut down on the problem a lot.   

[Gypsy Jazmine]

does anyone have any safe ideas for mousetraps???  i went to get fumbles food today and i opened the top of the container it was in and 4 mice stared me in the facE!!  i am just as petrified as them as they are to me!  i have no idea why! but they do scare me!  anyone have any ideas for traps safe for dogs???

There are humane traps for mice that won't bother your dog...With that said BE CAREFUL!!!!!...My vet was just telling me about a vaccination that is usually only given to hunting type dogs because the chances of getting the disease is very small for our pet type dogs...Then they had a little poodle come in with the disease...Come to find out that mice had gotten into the food & the mouse droppings did it...I can't remember the name of the disease but I'll call tomorrow & ask.

[ZooCrew]

Yes, the Hanta virus.  Normally only found in the southwest, it is slowly spreading to other areas.

I've always used just regular mousetraps, and neither of my two have ever tried to eat the bait off the traps.

If you're concerned about that.......... put a trap in the bin with the food.  The mice can get in, but not the dogs.  Or if you can find out where they are getting in the house, set a trap there.  We've had them come in thru the stove and from behind the kitchen sink.  I almost always have traps set in the garage, although I haven't caught anything in awhile.  We live right on the edge of a housing development, so we get mice off and on al year.

[shangrila]

I would get 'have a heart' traps. They'll trap the mice but there is nothing deadly about them so they can't hurt fumble

[Fumble]

we got those things that you plug in and send out a high pitched noise in 3 rooms, so they stay away.  we have a pretty tiny house, because it's a cape cod cottage. so all i can say is that i hope it helps!!  i dumped everything that the mice were in!  yuck! 

omG! i was not calm!  lol!! i freaked out this morning!!  it's one of those things that i'm so scared that i freeze up!  lo!  hopeflly that never happens again!!!

[Beth]

I have had great success using those plug-in things. I don't know how those crazy things work ...but they do for us.  My husband insisted on giving them a try and although I hesitated (I just DON'T like the nasty creatures!) I said would give it a try and it worked.  I have not seen them around since.   

[chaos270]

That's happened to me in the barn with the grain bin....oh yeah half asleep at 5:30 in the morning and seeing the 'treat' move.  They do it during the day too and it freaks me out....then there are the floaters that have fallen in the water buckets not only are they rodent but they are dead...ewwwwww w.

I have heard the plug in things work too.....is your sister less squeamish?  I make my mom get rid of them

[angelsmama]

my sister gets those little plastic boxes that traps them and they let them go in the field across the street. we cant get the plug in things cause i have gerbils we'd drive them crazy

[NoDogNow]

Instead of the "ultrasonic" plug in thing, get one of the "EMF" plug in things, like the Pest Offense.  That uses the wires in your house to create an irritating EMF field within your walls.

Justin has Norwegian rats, and they do just fine with these plugged in in about every other room of the house!

[Softhug]

If you get the "live" traps where you can just release them, make sure you release them away from your house.  I had a mouse when I lived in MI and Griffey would just play with the poor thing, bat him around, let him go, chase him and bat him some more.  I would catch him in a butter dish and release him into the yard...the next night, he was back!  This happened 4 nights in a row!  The fourth time I kept him in the bowl and the next morning...no mouse for Griffey!  So I made the country mouse a city mouse and dropped him off at a fast food eatery that will remain nameless...wan t some McFries with that?  Yea I am a bleeding heart and can't even kill a little ole mouse. 

[Winslow 151]

Hi,

Cat and snake, what fun for Fumble!! Try the plug ins, get some humane traps, a spring trap or 2 and a few gluey things stick them around the cottage and give us your feedback on the best one!!

Or you could get a container with a screw on lid to keep the vermin out of the food. Let me know if you need a container we have some shipping barrels we use here at work. I use 1 for the cat (Hadji) and one for Winslow. The lids seal tight and no chance of a critter unless he was there first.

Secondly it would give Fumble and Winslow another chance to wrestle when we meet to exchange the barrel!!

Thought I had a picture of the barrel I don't. It is blue with black lid and handels a little bigger than 10 gallons and hold a 30 pound bag of food easily.  They are clean we use them to ship 1 quart sealed cans cheaper and stronger than cardboard for us.

[Senghe]

If you get the "live" traps where you can just release them, make sure you release them away from your house.  I had a mouse when I lived in MI and Griffey would just play with the poor thing, bat him around, let him go, chase him and bat him some more.  I would catch him in a butter dish and release him into the yard...the next night, he was back!  This happened 4 nights in a row!  The fourth time I kept him in the bowl and the next morning...no mouse for Griffey!  So I made the country mouse a city mouse and dropped him off at a fast food eatery that will remain nameless...wan t some McFries with that?  Yea I am a bleeding heart and can't even kill a little ole mouse. 

That's the good thing with humane traps... you can post all the mice you cach through the letterboxes of people you don't like. 

I remember having them in a previous house and you could hear them racing around the loft and scrabbling down the cavity in the walls. They were so bold they would even run across the flooor when we were watching tv. I'm normally a very compassionate person, but I draw the line when something poops in my breakfast cereal! We put poison under the fridge and that was the end of the mice. We did check the room every morning for little mouse corpses so they didn't poison the dogs.