RE: Freaking the Eff Out
August 22, 2015 at 3:42 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2015 at 3:42 pm by Pyrrho.)
(August 22, 2015 at 2:09 pm)Exian Wrote: After years of using all those other attempts at building a better mouse trap, and with kids and animals running around the house, I've finally decided this year to go with the traditional snap traps. I've tried the catch-and-release(-and-run-back-in) traps, I've tried the poison but that always scares me, so I just sucked it up and got over killing them so violently. Can't have them chewing electrical wires and whatnot.
What I've found is that it's not that bad. It's pretty quick, and if an animal or a kid gets in it, it's just gonna hurt like a morherfucker, but nothing serious.
The catch and release traps require you to take them far, far away, so they don't come back.
Also, if you are having problems with mice, you should go around your house on the outside and carefully look for little holes, and fill them in. Mice do not get in by magically walking through walls. If you do not plug up the holes, you should expect to have more mice in the future, even if you manage to get rid of them all for a time.
I presently have no mice, but I have had them in the past. Blocking up holes is essential for keeping them out. For getting rid of them, I most recently used the catch and release, and I released them miles away from my home. If you don't want to do that, then I agree that the snap traps are probably best, as they typically kill quickly, which makes them usually more humane than poison or other methods. Plus you don't have a dead mouse rotting in your walls that way.
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