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A mouse in the house ~ what would you do? (1 Viewer)

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Background : I live in a single family home in a residential suburb that borders with a rural farm land, in fairly warm/dry climate in CA. They are building new homes two blocks a way from my home in what was open fields. I love with my wife and preteen daughter, both huge animal lovers.

Story : Yesterday, when going into my attached garage, I heard a weird metallic scraping noise that I thought was my neighbor shoveling something. On further inspection, I found a small field mouse that somehow got itself into a two foot tall empty steel trash can, without a lid, and no way out trying to scratch its way out.

Question: What is the right thing to do?

A. Keep it secret and wait for the mouse to die of dehydration, then dispose of the body.

B. Tell the family, and drive the live mouse toward the open field and release it.

C. Keep the mouse secret and kill it right away, then dispose of body. But how to end its life?

D. Some other answer.

Right now I'm leaning on option A. What do you suggest?

 
A few falls ago I bought a brand new grill cover. The following spring I go out back and noticed 2 perfect circles ripped out of the new cover. Turns out a field mouse built a nest in my grill.

Smoked that ####er

 
Trapped in a bucket like that I'd carry it out to the field and release. If it was on the loose in the garage/house I'd set a trap.

 
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belljr said:
Soulfly3 said:
Some of you are sick bastards.

If you can release it alive, do it.
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its a dirty rodent screw that
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Yeah exactly. I hate killing anything but rodents don't count. I have a farm as a neighbor also, about 50 yards away. I have a constant mouse AND rat problem (and squirrel or something in the attic). I've already trapped a huge ### rat in a live trap-which I drowned in a tub of water, have found two dead rats under our great room (it's built on a slope so there's an enclosed crawl space under it) and currently have a live rat running around in our 2nd attached garage that I haven't been able to catch yet-though I've seen it running around in there like 4-5 times.

Our house is well maintained and clean, we have a bull terrier and 2 cats, but the damn rodents seem to keep coming from the farm.

I've also found a dead desiccated possum under our deck, trapped a young live possum (nasty looking bastards) which I released in some woods a few miles away, and trapped a woodchuck that had made this massive burrow under our garden shed.

I hate rodents, especially with the constant nagging from the wife to take care of them. Hey-you're the one that wanted to move out into "the country"-this comes with it.

 
Gandalf the Grey said:
belljr said:
Soulfly3 said:
Some of you are sick bastards.

If you can release it alive, do it.
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its a dirty rodent screw that
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Yeah exactly. I hate killing anything but rodents don't count. I have a farm as a neighbor also, about 50 yards away. I have a constant mouse AND rat problem (and squirrel or something in the attic). I've already trapped a huge ### rat in a live trap-which I drowned in a tub of water, have found two dead rats under our great room (it's built on a slope so there's an enclosed crawl space under it) and currently have a live rat running around in our 2nd attached garage that I haven't been able to catch yet-though I've seen it running around in there like 4-5 times.

Our house is well maintained and clean, we have a bull terrier and 2 cats, but the damn rodents seem to keep coming from the farm.

I've also found a dead desiccated possum under our deck, trapped a young live possum (nasty looking bastards) which I released in some woods a few miles away, and trapped a woodchuck that had made this massive burrow under our garden shed.

I hate rodents, especially with the constant nagging from the wife to take care of them. Hey-you're the one that wanted to move out into "the country"-this comes with it.
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Im not saying dont kill them... just dont kill them if you dont have to.

and for F's sake, do NOT use those sticky papers. that's the most inhumane #### ever

 
Soulfly3 said:
Gandalf the Grey said:
belljr said:
Soulfly3 said:
Some of you are sick bastards.

If you can release it alive, do it.
Click to expand...
its a dirty rodent screw that
Click to expand...
Yeah exactly. I hate killing anything but rodents don't count. I have a farm as a neighbor also, about 50 yards away. I have a constant mouse AND rat problem (and squirrel or something in the attic). I've already trapped a huge ### rat in a live trap-which I drowned in a tub of water, have found two dead rats under our great room (it's built on a slope so there's an enclosed crawl space under it) and currently have a live rat running around in our 2nd attached garage that I haven't been able to catch yet-though I've seen it running around in there like 4-5 times.Our house is well maintained and clean, we have a bull terrier and 2 cats, but the damn rodents seem to keep coming from the farm.

I've also found a dead desiccated possum under our deck, trapped a young live possum (nasty looking bastards) which I released in some woods a few miles away, and trapped a woodchuck that had made this massive burrow under our garden shed.

I hate rodents, especially with the constant nagging from the wife to take care of them. Hey-you're the one that wanted to move out into "the country"-this comes with it.
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Im not saying dont kill them... just dont kill them if you dont have to.

and for F's sake, do NOT use those sticky papers. that's the most inhumane #### ever
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I put a bunch of those sticky papers in my attic because I wasn't sure if rats were up there or a squirrel. Didn't catch anything but personally I have absolutely no concern about being humane with rodents. They carry disease, multiply like crazy, and will destroy your property. A squirrel in an attic can cause all kinds of damage.I just had several inches of blown-in insulation put in my attic. Supposedly that has at least some rodent repelling effects (I don't know if that's true or not but several people have told me that). We'll see I guess.

Our cats have caught several mice in our basement-probably 6-8 over 5 years since we moved in here- so they seem to keep the house clear at least (we have a set of those metal doors going down to the basement from outside-I think they're called Bilco doors? Or something like that?) I think that's how mice were getting in.

Eta off topic but we've also had at least 2 rabid raccoons in our yard, a cat that chose to use our ornamental fish pond as it's final resting place (or it was rabid too, not sure about that one), multiple deer running through our yard and one hit and killed right in front of our house that didn't get cleaned up for weeks, a grey herron that was coming to the fish pond every morning to eat that was a major pita to get rid of, and possibly a bear sighting (bears aren't usually in my area but there were multiple confirmed sightings of one that had wandered into our area only a few miles away and I think I saw it walking along our fence line-but not positive about that one.

Yay wildlife.

 
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Last mouse we had in the house kept tripping the traps but not getting caught. I came into the kitchen one evening and the little ******* was on the counter staring at me. I slowly picked up one of the kids' knee hockey sticks that was lying on the kitchen floor and proceeded to knock him to kingdom come with a rapid, cobra-like strike.

My first and only (to-date) kill by hockey stick.

I'd go with that.

 
Kill it.

My neighbors have horses and the barns attract the field mice. I keep two traps set year around and catch mice year around. I catch between 6-10 annually.

My first year here I set a trap after seeing added droppings. I caught the mouse the next day and thought that was it. After more dropping appeared I set another trap. I caught 16 in a day and a half.

Kill them all and lol@releasing a mouse.

 
Oh, he's probably the only mouse around and he just got lost and ended up in your house by mistake. Dont worry. Let him go in the nearby field and I'm sure he won't find his way back through the same hole he got in this time. You know, into the big warm house with garbage to root through or nice comfy walls to build a little home for himself in.

For every one you find, there are probably 5 more laying in your walls right now.

 
End of story depends on the answer you gave.

For those who said I should release it, I found a nice pasture to release it in. It now runs free and will live out a long full life. (Please stop reading. There is nothing else in the post for you to see.)

For everyone else, I killed the filthy pest and threw away the body without letting the girls know about it.

 
I used glue traps. Caught hell for being inhumane.

So I switched to those houses, the one where they go in and don't come out, but stay alive.

Then I dumped them into a pail of water, and watched the ####ers drown.

Now I'm back to the old snap traps.

I guess I'm not a real FBG, because I ain't paying 50 bucks for one of http://www.rodenterminator.com/home.html

 
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