Re: Got Mice? - In search of a better mouse trap



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On Jan 7, 6:26 pm, "Evelyn" <evelyn.r...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"mg" <mgkel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jan 7, 1:54 pm, Jim10...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:



> Daughter is really motivated by the eco, natural, authentic, gentler,
> and similar ideas.

> As example, years ago while in college she had a live trap to catch
> mice and would get someone to take the trap out to release Mr. mouse
> back into the wild.

> Famous story was she caught one and could not find anyone to let it go
> for a couple days, so she fed it while it was in the little live box
> until she got help. Of course I was giving her advice on bucket of
> water solution at the time.

> hmmmmmmm Dad ain't into catch and release for illegal aliens,
> criminals or mice. But, she was .

> Baby daughter was born several months ago and daughter found
> 'evidence' of lots of Mr. mouse's friends after returning from
> visiting us and other family for couple weeks. She has husband
> setting 4 traps at a time with almond paste and reports she caught two
> mice in one trap. The lethal kind of course that snaps their little
> heads with that spring.

> Reality of mouse droppings on her bed and in baby's play sleeper
> changed that old ideal. She is on war footing washing and scrubbing
> every possible place her guests might have traveled and has a big
> stock of new traps as she does not want trap in house once it has
> apprehended, tried, convicted and executed a little critter.

> With that.

>http://www.4dotranch.com/MT/index.htmlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ad...
> Several really neat ones here.

>http://www.geocities.com/matt6ft9/bucket_mousetrap_index.html
> Nice youtube video of this one. And no mouse was injured or killed in
> producing the video. too bad eh?

I doubt if you would every find a housewife who stays sympathetic to
the plight of a lowly mouse very long. If they get in your house, it's
like doing spring cleaning, even if you just did spring cleaning, and
then if they get it again, you have to clean it again. That involve
closets, files, kitchen cabinets and drawers, bedding, actually,
everything.

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Depends where you live and where they are getting in. I live in a wooded
area, so these are field mice, not the standard gray house mice you see in
cities. I found mice droppings in a kitchen cabinet. We did a major
cleaning, put a trap in there and caught the mouse. The cats can't get
into kitchen cabinets of course, but they were verrrrrrryyyyyy interested in
that cabinet, sniffing around it, and we wondered why. No mice since, but
my husband filled all possible access openings with something. Not sure
what he used. Could have been steel wool, but I think it was that spray
foam insulation stuff.
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I actually had a mouse get inside my computer printer once.

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We had them nesting inside my husbands vintage Corvette in the upholstery. He was not amused.

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Best Regards,
Evelyn

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