Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:20:02 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Mystery Mouse
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I know it is not 'green' or particularly politically correct but we use
that old fashioned mouse bait (Poison) you can get at any supermarket.
Comes in small boxes that you open and stash in mouse-only accessible
areas. It is dry pellets in small cardboard containers. The mice eat it
and go elsewhere to die...at least I have never found any bodies or smelled
any dead ones.
This could be bad for other scavengers if they ate the dead mouse, I
suppose....But with all the poison that gets put into our environment,
often in hundred thousand ton quantities, and the genetically-engineered
poison-included crops that are killing animals across the world, a few dead
mice, poisoned by me, who might not make it into a hole to die....I am not
going to stress over that....
They have caused me a lot of damage over the years...Lately in my shop,
which is also the other half a barn and it is vacant for a few months each
winter when we are camping...The mice come in and eat all my tool cords,
and crap in my cabinets, build nests everywhere and are a health hazard
there... I put just one of those boxes in a space behind my fridge....Never
had a mouse problem since that.
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Vanagon <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Moth balls in the van would repel me, too. Good idea for storage, tho. At
> home I use catch and release traps. This before we got Cat - she's taken
> over that duty. As for "death throes," they may not actually happen. Except
> in my imagination, perhaps, while I lie awake in the darkness, staring at
> the ceiling. Picturing things. In the dark. Alone. At night. In the dark.
>
> Gotta lure or chase that critter outta here. Maybe play some Celine Dion
> on the hi-fi. That'd work on me.
>
> Stupid mouse.
>
> Sent from camp.
>
> > On Sep 14, 2014, at 11:00 AM, <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Mr. Squirrel, never in all the mouse trapping I have done have I heard
> any "death throes" of the snapped victims. The snap is so sudden and
> instantly fatal that no sound is emitted, in my experience, other than the
> snap. Now, in the van, you would hear that.
> >
> > My wife once bought "humane" mouse traps, sheets of something like
> tree-tangle foot for insect critters. The directions were to distribute
> where mice frequent, and collect the critters stuck on the stickum by their
> feet and dispose of them in the trash. Anything but humane, as the mice
> live to experience their slow death. They are irrevocably stuck, alive, and
> unceremoniously dumped in the dumpster. Not to be used by this person
> again. Old fashioned snap traps are best.
> >
> > Another approach is moth balls. They repel mice, too.
> >
> > mcneely
> >
> > ---- Vanagon <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >> So I'm here on the 5th day of my annual camping trip. One site, a dry
> camp (no facilities, but also no fee and no neighbors) - a sort of Fall
> retreat, when in the middle of the night I was up gewoken by the sound of
> little mousey nibbling. Somewhere in this van a mouse has taken residence
> and is noshing on crumbs. No real food is rodent-accessible, only cans and
> bottles in the cupboards. Kind of wish I had a mouse trap along. But I'm
> not sure the SNAP and sounds of the critter's death throes would be what I
> want to hear in the middle of the night, either. Shoulda brung the cat.
> >>
> >> Sent from camp.
> >
> > --
> > David McNeely
> >
> >
>
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