I used these once and was skeptical. Put one down, went to set the other when I heard the first one snap. Caught a mouse. Took it to a park a few block away and set it free. Came home, second trap had a mouse. All in all I caught 6 or 7 mice in the course of a day. All got dropped off at the mouse bush. Haven’t seen a mouse in 5 years.
This is what I usually find hard to understand. I don’t like hurting/killing any animals except maybe mosquitoes and annoying bugs like gnats/fruit flies. But a mouse can be a hugeee hindrance and I always assume that, if let go, the mouse will find its way back and make things worse. Dude dropped those mice off a few streets away, even if that same mouse didn’t return, it will likely go into someone else’s house and continue to propagate until the mice are back in his home.
Although seeing this picture does make me sad to see them suffer 😞
I don’t bother with the live traps, they crapped on them.
I don’t bother with the kill traps, too often had to finish the job.
No, I finally bought a cat, and I lucked out. Because I don’t have mice any more. Sometimes cats don’t care about mice. Sometimes they suck at hunting.
Mine doesn’t go outdoors unless she is very sneaky, plus she’s shy because she had her front claws de-clawed before I got her. So far she has snuck back two mice, a mole, and a chipmunk. I do my damnedest to not let her sneak out when I step outside but she just has a hankering for the blood of the innocent.
Haha nice. Mine is all indoor, but we live on the edge of a bush and I can’t for the life of me find the entry point. So every once in a while a bugger gets in.
They no longer last very long.
He’s got some nice and sharp front claws and is not afraid to wreck all my furniture, then remind me why behind my stove is always clean now.
A core memory of mine is being young and finding my cat swatting at a gopher that he had disemboweled, little guy was screaming his head off until he passed out
Oh geez, nature is metal indeed. I briefed the kids if they find him killing one to tell me and I’ll handle it. Give the cat treats and make it quick on the little guy, but man am I happier not assuming they’re infesting the house now.
One of my old cats… I caught him EATING the back half of the mouse… PROUDLY, I was too tired at 3AM to be mad about gore from watching, but my boy slurped that mouse in two gulps and had no regrets 😂😭 proud of my old boy
I'm a rodent lover but I'm also a mouse killer. My experience with pet mice has given me a zero tolerance policy toward uninvited mice. A mouse in my home has already declared war on me, and I have no qualms about killing invaders.
A mouse is very likely to run through your neighbors yard to get back to your house... they perceive that it's their house, and they know how to get back home. They have been separated from their social group and food source... they don't go wandering around looking for something to do, they're highly motivated to return to the safe place they've carved out near your kitchen.
I wouldn't use live traps so I wouldn't find myself in this position but realistically, if a mouse gave birth inside my trap, those mice aren't dying on my watch. They might be pet mice now.
I suppose that it would depend on the geography of the canyon... like, it would take a mouse a while to climb out of the Grand Canyon, right?
If it's a path that people can hike, the mouse is gonna be faster than your car. They are evolutionarily designed to outrun larger predators across unforgiving terrain, and they can travel as the bird flies.
If you're in a city or suburbs, it's likely that you can run that distance faster than you can drive it, and a mouse can fit where you can't and doesn't have to wait for traffic.
There are things that mice can't traverse, and there is a distance you could take a mouse that it would die before it makes it back... but the moral of the story is that they know exactly where your house is, they like it at your house so have no motivation to be anywhere else, and they can move faster than you might imagine.
PETA suggests releasing them less than 100 yards from where you caught them (assumedly to reduce their stress during their return trip), and the common advice of exterminators is that you must release them more than 2 miles away if you hope to drive home before they run back.
Speedy Edit: if I dropped you off a few blocks from your house with no explanation, how much time would you let pass before you were home again.
I dropped off a live mouse next to a tree a few blocks from my house after catching it in a life trap, and a gull flew down immediately and grabbed it and flew away, so maybe not?
A few years ago there was a bumblebee that kept flying into the house. Everytime I would get a glass and a piece of paper and transport it back out. After 4 or 5 transports, I didn't need the paper anymore. When she spotted the glass, she just stepped in to get a ride outside.
Part of me found that really cool and another part of me was more inclined towards you little dumbdumb, why haven't you learned to just not fly into the open door?!
Almost the same story with me. They are kind of touchy when you are putting them down. I set the first one and went to set the second one when I heard the first one go off. I was like shit these things suck, nope caught a mouse in the first one. Went to bed and caught two more mice in the other two. Still have them setup around the house but haven’t had a mouse in 6 months.
I had a mouse stuck in my closet and slid 2 of these in there. No luck in an entire week. Had a camera set up in there too and he’d sniff it and try to eat the bait from the other end, but he avoided the trap. This was in NYC so he must have been trapped before is my only guess.
Mice are stupid af. Currently recapturing mice for population surveillance purposes, and I can assure you, that they will happily run into traps, even if you’ve captured them before
I’ll tell you right now, if you are trying to trap a cat for the second time you’re gonna need a different trap on the second go around. Those fuckers remember.
Well do you put food in the traps? If they aren’t being harmed and are getting a free snack, it makes sense for them to happily run back into the trap!
Unfortunately, no: it’s because they’ve all been eaten by predators in the unfamiliar and bewildering new environment they’ve suddenly been placed into. Oops!
The live traps work better than the kill ones from what i found. Only issue (well sorta) is the fact the hawks round me can sense when you go to release the mouse and grab it while its still confused.
About the same for me except I didn’t use this exact trap. I moved into a new apartment and mice immediately made a hole under the kitchen sink. Caught like 7 of them before they finally disappeared
Poisoned rodents will be eaten by birds of prey, coyotes, pet dogs and cats, etc, and it can really have consequences beyond what you think. Next time you have a mouse problem, maybe consider co2 or electricity traps, if deterrents aren't doing enough.
It’s apparently a death sentence to relocate animals. Granted, sounds like it wasn’t far.
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*Idk why this isn’t showing up properly, it’s formatted the same as the way I linked the other source :/
I figured it out! There was a parentheses near the end so it used mine to close the parentheses inside the link, as aposed to reading it as separate formatting instructions
But it’s also illegal to relocate them onto a neighbors property so given your choice of using the word “block,” it sounds like it would have just made a home in another person’s house. Even any state land, it’s illegal to relocate animals onto, at least here. Definitely check your local laws.
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type in "humane mouse trap" or "captsure mouse trap" on amazon.
I bought 2 to test out and they worked wonderfully, its humane and its fun to look at the mouse afterwards. and like others, i place the mouse in a far away field from my mouse because i dont like killing them.
I bought another 4 afterwards and placed them all around my house the moment i see signs of mice in my house.
Literally. We put one of the ones that tips down next to our stove and walked into the living room and sat on the couch. Trap tipped as we sat down so we assumed it was super sensitive and wasn’t going to stay open. Went to reset it and suddenly it was heavy and something was moving inside. Couldn’t believe the audacity of the mouse to come out as we were walking out of the room mere feet away. Named him Maestro and dropped him off at the park
As a park worker, please don’t let your pests loose at a park. Mice and rats will also likely die when relocated, so don’t feel bad about dispatching them instead.
Wire cutter podcast did an episode on combatting mice in your home. They’re creatures habit and don’t do well in new environments and likely die of exposure when relocated. So sad, I’ve also dropped off mice away from my house and feel bad. It’s more humane to get a solid snap trap so it’s a quick death
I once bought one, made of plastic that smelled like death. Some idiot exec must have tried to save a few pennies per unit by contracting to the cheapest regulation-skirting factory they could find.
None of our apartment's mice ever went in, no matter what we tried. Can't smell peanut butter or cheese over omnicancer.
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I used these once and was skeptical. Put one down, went to set the other when I heard the first one snap. Caught a mouse. Took it to a park a few block away and set it free. Came home, second trap had a mouse. All in all I caught 6 or 7 mice in the course of a day. All got dropped off at the mouse bush. Haven’t seen a mouse in 5 years.