Awful Awful Pests

[mako]

Thanks for the info Epacris. I personally prefer your way of doing it and in fact we've thrown many snap traps away with mice still trapped but unfortunately this little sucker keeps getting the bait off..We even super glued a m&m to a trap and it just ate the choc out ouf the middle

We set the humane traps last night with some choc and some mouse bait and the sucker didn't go anywhere near them When they are baited like that they die in the trap and DH disposes of them in the bin. we catch this one very soon.

[mako]

BG I think these suckers are getting smarter I hope you catch yours soon too

[Epacris]

More goodluck to you mako. Sound's like you need it.

[murraysmum]

bucket of water drown them thats what we do

we have horses and mice love chaff so we have oil in drums with the lid off they fall in and drown cause they cant get out sounds mean but they are vermin we kill flies and ****roatches and spiders dont we


i agree do not relase the lil buggers into the bush as they cause more harm then good

i had one run over my boot yesterday when i was feeding a horse i kicked it and a bird swooped down and grabbed it they are prey they die end of story

[Phteven]

I think the snap traps are the most humane option - they generally kill them instantly.
Mako, have you tried differant varieties. We got the wood ones for our mouse and it didn't work then we got a grey plastic one and it snapped him the first night.

[Liz]

PMSL.. wow.. I release ONE mouse into the bush and I now have little value for the environment and have succumbed to the ever pervasive attitude that the bush is a dumping ground.

[Epacris]

But Liz, you dump a mouse, someone else dumps one too, then someone dumps their lawn clippings, then some gardening prunings with weed propagules, then some sediment escapes off a building site, then someone uses too much detergent washing their car, and on and on and on. It's a death by a thousand cuts that I deal with EVERY DAY and it's MY life's passion, please just let me be passionate about it.

[murraysmum]

i get narky because mice and jump fences ever tried to rug a horse when its jumping about trying to kill a rodent its not fun

that and well Epacris is right we are supposed to be looking out for our enviroment and mice well they like to eat things and destroy things

same as wild dogs foxes and rabbits

[NaeNae]

We recently laid bait in our roof for the rats we heard scurrying around up there. I hate the idea of poisoning things but they really are highly intelligent little creatures.

Have you tried just plain old peanut butter in your humane trap?

We have a cat also and he catches them and brings them inside ALIVE. I am forever "saving" the mice from the cruel claws of my moggy and releasing them into the barn. We have a lot of snakes in the summer months in there so I figure I will let the snakes do what they need to to the mice