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Rats! Sometime back I saw that there were mice in my compost bin. I don't
put food scraps there except vegetables - but it must be nice and warm
inside during Winter time.

One of them got into the house. I was watching the History channel yesterday
when I heard something rattling away at the toaster. I paid no attention to
it. When I went to make some toast - out popped a small little mouse.

It ran into a small hole inside a cupboard wall. (Meaning its not in the
cupboard but somewhere in its interior gaps.)

I got one of the old fashion traps and one of the new modern plastic
eco-friendly ones which doesn't kill the animal.

I thought of borrowing my friend's cat for the weekend. Its quite good at
catching mice apparently. But I don't know how
effective that would be.

Would it help?? I know its an odd question to ask.



At the moment its just one. I hope. Occasionally I leave the doors open when
I do my cooking - must have got in that way.

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"YMC" wrote in message
...
Rats! Sometime back I saw that there were mice in my compost bin. I don't
put food scraps there except vegetables - but it must be nice and warm
inside during Winter time.

One of them got into the house. I was watching the History channel
yesterday
when I heard something rattling away at the toaster. I paid no attention
to
it. When I went to make some toast - out popped a small little mouse.

It ran into a small hole inside a cupboard wall. (Meaning its not in the
cupboard but somewhere in its interior gaps.)

I got one of the old fashion traps and one of the new modern plastic
eco-friendly ones which doesn't kill the animal.

how is not killing a european house mouse "ecofriendly"? i know they're cute
but they don't belong here so there's no eco-problem in killing them! (quite
the reverse).

the "humane" traps are good for relocating them. e.g. if you caught an
indigenous mouse, or you caught a european mouse & are hopelessly
soft-hearted. :-)

I thought of borrowing my friend's cat for the weekend. Its quite good at
catching mice apparently. But I don't know how
effective that would be.

Would it help?? I know its an odd question to ask.

i suspect that the cat would spend a few days freaking out, wondering why
it's gone to live at your house instead. by which time you could have caught
the mouse yourself. it would depend on the cat's personality though.

i prefer old-fashioned snap traps. (baited with peanut butter). however,
during our recent & in fact current mouse plague we have had more luck
thusly: bait humane trap with peanut butter. catch mouse (2-3 a day for a
while there). take trap out to yard & release mouse, mouse is instantly
caught & killed by dog. i think they like the humane traps because they
develop a smell of live mouse about them which makes the mouse more likely
to go in - whereas snap traps (i suspect) keep the dead-mouse-smell that
only another mouse would be sensitive to. just my suspicion though. and
also, unless you do something along the lines of the above, releasing exotic
mice back into freedom isn't a responsible idea.

snap traps are good but sometimes you get a malfunctional one which isn't
sensitive enough, & that's where they can be a big waste of time. (not that
getting more is expensive nor much trouble).

At the moment its just one. I hope. Occasionally I leave the doors open
when
I do my cooking - must have got in that way.

mice can get in anywhere their heads (which are very little) can fit. you
can't really mouse proof a house entirely in that way. and as soon as you've
got one, you'll get plenty more.

now we have the mice at our house down to nearly zero, the rats are moving
in instead. sigh! ime, rats are MUCH more clever than mice. it is most
exasperating.
kylie

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"0tterbot" wrote in message
"YMC" wrote in message

Rats! Sometime back I saw that there were mice in my compost bin. I don't
put food scraps there except vegetables - but it must be nice and warm
inside during Winter time.

One of them got into the house. I was watching the History channel
yesterday
when I heard something rattling away at the toaster. I paid no attention
to
it. When I went to make some toast - out popped a small little mouse.

It ran into a small hole inside a cupboard wall. (Meaning its not in the
cupboard but somewhere in its interior gaps.)

I got one of the old fashion traps and one of the new modern plastic
eco-friendly ones which doesn't kill the animal.

how is not killing a european house mouse "ecofriendly"? i know they're
cute but they don't belong here so there's no eco-problem in killing them!
(quite the reverse).

I've got both mice and antechinus in my sun room at the moment. I seem to
have no more in the house but I'm not trusting the little sods not to come
back.

The mice I let go in a new housing development in the area and the
antechinus I release in the paddock.

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FarmI wrote:
"0tterbot" wrote in message
"YMC" wrote in message

Rats! Sometime back I saw that there were mice in my compost bin. I don't
put food scraps there except vegetables - but it must be nice and warm
inside during Winter time.

One of them got into the house. I was watching the History channel
yesterday
when I heard something rattling away at the toaster. I paid no attention
to
it. When I went to make some toast - out popped a small little mouse.

It ran into a small hole inside a cupboard wall. (Meaning its not in the
cupboard but somewhere in its interior gaps.)

I got one of the old fashion traps and one of the new modern plastic
eco-friendly ones which doesn't kill the animal.
how is not killing a european house mouse "ecofriendly"? i know they're
cute but they don't belong here so there's no eco-problem in killing them!
(quite the reverse).

I've got both mice and antechinus in my sun room at the moment. I seem to
have no more in the house but I'm not trusting the little sods not to come
back.

The mice I let go in a new housing development in the area and the
antechinus I release in the paddock.



They are probably been displaced by the housing development.
This happened locally when they started building some new units in a
place where there were previously paddocks.
Same happnes with kangaroos etc....

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"Jonno" wrote in message
FarmI wrote:
"0tterbot" wrote in message
"YMC" wrote in message

Rats! Sometime back I saw that there were mice in my compost bin. I
don't
put food scraps there except vegetables - but it must be nice and warm
inside during Winter time.

One of them got into the house. I was watching the History channel
yesterday
when I heard something rattling away at the toaster. I paid no
attention to
it. When I went to make some toast - out popped a small little mouse.

It ran into a small hole inside a cupboard wall. (Meaning its not in
the
cupboard but somewhere in its interior gaps.)

I got one of the old fashion traps and one of the new modern plastic
eco-friendly ones which doesn't kill the animal.
how is not killing a european house mouse "ecofriendly"? i know they're
cute but they don't belong here so there's no eco-problem in killing
them! (quite the reverse).

I've got both mice and antechinus in my sun room at the moment. I seem
to have no more in the house but I'm not trusting the little sods not to
come back.

The mice I let go in a new housing development in the area and the
antechinus I release in the paddock.



They are probably been displaced by the housing development.

I doubt it. The housing development is about 10 kms away and I drop the
mice off there after taking them for a drive. My act of releasing the mice
in that locality is my way of commenting on what I think of this eyesore.

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"0tterbot" wrote in message
...
how is not killing a european house mouse "ecofriendly"? i know they're
cute but they don't belong here so there's no eco-problem in killing them!
(quite the reverse).

the "humane" traps are good for relocating them. e.g. if you caught an
indigenous mouse, or you caught a european mouse & are hopelessly
soft-hearted. :-)

Haha, no not soft hearted. I was going to write humane trap - but being
"humane" to a non-human rodent seems an odd thing to say. So I used the
word - ecofriendly.

I'm not a mouse expert and don't know whether the mouse is native or not.
Its small. Grey. and has a very long tail. And its also freaking the other
person who lives in this house out.

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g'day ymc,

yep need to control them if they establish in the home they can find
their way into the wall cavities where rats in particular but mice as
well are very fond of chewing the wiring, the cause of many a house
fire, more dangerous if threat occurs in the roof. if you have a home
with good screens and security type doors they can have a difficult
time getting in but we have had mice in the house, discover them
quickly and deal with them long before they get comfortable. in rural
the home ahd no screens (not needed) we had a rat come in went
straight to where the computer was and chewed all the telephone cables
so we had no phone.

they find a good home in copost and enough to eat, we do our
composting in our gardens so they wil live inb there as well we put
all our rottable kitchen scraps tucked under the mulch so the food is
there as well. but we run bait stations using tomcat rat baits cut a
couple of openings into icecream containers large enough for them to
get in this protects the baits from the weather, use a small piece of
3x2 or such as s weight to hold the station in place against the wind.

in the house we slipped bats in under the sink wher the pipes come
through (only bit you can't observe the bait for interfference. it
could take up to 2 weeks for a rat to die from ingesting the bait over
numerous feed, they usually die outside heading back to their water
supply.

all the rats seem to have dissapeared from around here and the mice
are well in check, after all we didn't create them locally they where
always here on council reserves/drains or other gardens unchecked.

with a rat that i needed to get rid of right away or as rightaway as
we could we borrowed one of those spring traps put some cheese on it
unset for a couple of nights to give the rat a false sense of security
and free feed, we then set the trap on that last night tied the cheese
on with cotton and yup he fell for it, had a very surprised look on
his face. why tie the bait they are very adept at removing the bait
without springing the trap.

run the baits out in the garden etc.,. stop them before they come
inside.

excuse my typo's lease


On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:50:16 +1000, "YMC"
wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

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"YMC" wrote in message
...
"0tterbot" wrote in message
...
how is not killing a european house mouse "ecofriendly"? i know they're
cute but they don't belong here so there's no eco-problem in killing
them! (quite the reverse).

the "humane" traps are good for relocating them. e.g. if you caught an
indigenous mouse, or you caught a european mouse & are hopelessly
soft-hearted. :-)

Haha, no not soft hearted. I was going to write humane trap - but being
"humane" to a non-human rodent seems an odd thing to say. So I used the
word - ecofriendly.

sorry to be a word-nerd, but i just am :-)

humane means for a human to behave in a kind and responsible way towards
another creature, whether human or not. those traps are thusly labelled
because one is able to relocate the animal without hurting it. you can
definitely be humane to a creature which isn't human, just as long as you're
human yourself :-)

eco-friendly is rapidly becoming meaningless, but is meant to imply an
activity which is either benign to, or actively helps, our environment in
its natural form.

I'm not a mouse expert and don't know whether the mouse is native or not.
Its small. Grey. and has a very long tail.

it's most likely a european house mouse. they have rounded ears, are grey,
and have cute buttony eyes & are generally extremely appealing in
appearance. they tend to be extremely small.

indigenous mice come in a few species i'm quite sure... however ime tend to
have more oval ears & a more stand-uppish appearance & tend to be brown &
quite likely a tiny bit larger. they have more of the look of a miniature
bilby to them, which an exotic mouse doesn't have. i'd be inclined to just
relocate these, if they're what you've got. european mice should just be
killed, ideally, imo. indigenous mice are much less likely to ever move into
your house in the first place ime so it's probably not one of those anyway.

And its also freaking the other
person who lives in this house out.

i can't fathom anyone getting freaked out by a few mice, but that's not the
issue here :-)
kylie

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"YMC" wrote in message

I'm not a mouse expert and don't know whether the mouse is native or not.
Its small. Grey. and has a very long tail.

Do a google on antechinus. The 'very long tail' sounds like an antechinus
to me and they are native.

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"0tterbot" wrote in message

i can't fathom anyone getting freaked out by a few mice, but that's not
the issue here :-)

I agree. We weren't even freaked out when we were told to evacuate at
midnight because they couldn't find the bloke who tried to murder my
husband. That's personal and could be freaky if someone is that way
inclined. Mice are just being mice and doing micey things.

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"0tterbot" wrote in message
...

i can't fathom anyone getting freaked out by a few mice, but that's not
the issue here :-)
kylie


The same person who freaks out about even the mentioning of their
description - can readily kill with her bare hands - big hairy huntsmen
spiders.

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Good idea Lens mate.

Will do!!

I already had traps set up near my compost bin. Nothing close to the house
to avoid the obvious.

This one must have slipped through somehow.

YMC

"len gardener" wrote in message
...
g'day ymc,

yep need to control them if they establish in the home they can find....

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On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:07:32 +1000, YMC wrote:


The same person who freaks out about even the mentioning of their
description - can readily kill with her bare hands - big hairy huntsmen
spiders.

Arsehole,{:-). Somehow, our house one was squashed and now we are
infested with flies inside the house.

Mice in garden now in house
 

YMC wrote:
Rats! Sometime back I saw that there were mice in my compost bin. I don't
put food scraps there except vegetables - but it must be nice and warm
inside during Winter time.

One of them got into the house. I was watching the History channel yesterday
when I heard something rattling away at the toaster. I paid no attention to
it. When I went to make some toast - out popped a small little mouse.

It ran into a small hole inside a cupboard wall. (Meaning its not in the
cupboard but somewhere in its interior gaps.)

I got one of the old fashion traps and one of the new modern plastic
eco-friendly ones which doesn't kill the animal.

I thought of borrowing my friend's cat for the weekend. Its quite good at
catching mice apparently. But I don't know how
effective that would be.

Would it help?? I know its an odd question to ask.



At the moment its just one. I hope. Occasionally I leave the doors open when
I do my cooking - must have got in that way.




Bromakill sell a feed block , drop one of those through the holes and
wave goodbye to your mouse .(smell is minimal)

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I borrowed my friend's cat for the weekend.

And I set up a trap using the "humane mouse trap"

http://www.humanemousetrap.com.au/

I bought it at Bunnings for about $2.60.

Smeared the end with peanut butter. But seemed to have no success for a day
or so.

My friend brought his cat over. After dinner it was attracted to the trap.
It wasn't activated.

Then the cat stuck its hand inside as if it was trying to get at something.

I thought it was playing around -

I picked the trap up but the trap seemed a tad heavy. I shook it - but
didn't hear anything rattling inside.

I called the cat over - by this time it seemed to have lost all interest.

Popped open the lid - and out popped a mouse. Very small like a small
computer mouse - and the cat jumped on it straight away.

Played with it for awhile - then ate it. It must have loved the taste of
that mouse because after that - it didn't want to have anymore milk or
commercial cat food. But instead went to hunting mode. I guess there may be
more than one mouse in the house hahaha.

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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:00:58 +1000, YMC wrote:

I guess there may
be more than one mouse in the house hahaha.

Mouse smell. If you have a mouser cat and it suddenly starts sniffing
around, especially along a route, then you know you have had a visit.

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"YMC" wrote in message

And I set up a trap using the "humane mouse trap"
http://www.humanemousetrap.com.au/
I bought it at Bunnings for about $2.60.

That was great buying. I've got 3 of those traps and they've all cost me
over $8. But I swear by them since one night we caught 6 mice using just
one trap.

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"terryc" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:00:58 +1000, YMC wrote:

I guess there may
be more than one mouse in the house hahaha.

Mouse smell. If you have a mouser cat and it suddenly starts sniffing
around, especially along a route, then you know you have had a visit.

At night, the cat seems to go into hunt mode as if its waiting for another
mouse to show up. I've been keeping it indoors for a day+ now.

I... ah crap, I opened the front door and it ran straight out. Damn I can't
see the cat now. My friend is so going to be so ****ed at me.

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Yeah, I was surprised it was so cheap. Its Bunnings at Nunawading.

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"YMC" writes:
I already had traps set up near my compost bin. Nothing close to the house
to avoid the obvious.

Is it possible that your stealthy visitor might be a native marsupial (an
antechinus) and not a pest rodent?

I have a small worm farm and noticed it was being visited by, I guessed,
a town rat. Around midday I chanced upon it, and it froze in the grass
right in front of me, so I got a good look at it, and it looked exactly
like a rat to me. But I noticed it had a baby clinging to its back, so I
asked here, and respondents declared it could then not be an introduced
rat.

So I ceased setting a trap near the farm, and accept that I'm losing
worms to this visitor whatever it is.

Question to all: is the antechinus totally carnivorous, to the extent
that I could safely put out a grain-based rat poison to nab any pest
rodents with no likelihood of harming the native species?
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

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g'day john,

Question to all: is the antechinus totally carnivorous, to the extent
that I could safely put out a grain-based rat poison to nab any pest
rodents with no likelihood of harming the native species?

good question hope we can get an answer, i had never given it much
thought as i felt the native rodents had a different food chain to the
ferrel ones, as it is only the ferrel models that want to live in our
homes with us. and in all the baiting we have done for the ferrel's we
have never seen anything but dead ferrel's.

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:35:22 +0000 (UTC), John Savage
wrote:
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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

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I get house mice and native 'mice'. When I read up on them it turns out
the native sorts actually hunt the house mice! All very handy, but I
can't have them living in the walls either. I catch them all in 'humane'
traps and let them go in waste land or bush land if they are obviously
not mice. I really hate killing critters. The rats were a different
matter. I got a traditional spring trap and killed them. They were
definately rats and bold enough to run through a room with people in it.
I figured they carry too many diseases to just be let loose somewhere.
Probably the mice do too, but they are less likely to survive where
there is snakes and owls and other birds off prey.

Sometimes I borrow my daughters cat - she might catch a mouse, but often
the mice just move out when the cat smell becomes too much for them. It
didn't work during the worst of the drought.

jules

YMC wrote:
Rats! Sometime back I saw that there were mice in my compost bin. I don't
put food scraps there except vegetables - but it must be nice and warm
inside during Winter time.

One of them got into the house. I was watching the History channel yesterday
when I heard something rattling away at the toaster. I paid no attention to
it. When I went to make some toast - out popped a small little mouse.

It ran into a small hole inside a cupboard wall. (Meaning its not in the
cupboard but somewhere in its interior gaps.)

I got one of the old fashion traps and one of the new modern plastic
eco-friendly ones which doesn't kill the animal.

I thought of borrowing my friend's cat for the weekend. Its quite good at
catching mice apparently. But I don't know how
effective that would be.

Would it help?? I know its an odd question to ask.



At the moment its just one. I hope. Occasionally I leave the doors open when
I do my cooking - must have got in that way.

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jules wrote:

snip

Probably the mice do too, but they are less likely to survive where
there is snakes and owls and other birds off prey.

snip

jules


Y'know, I often wonder about that. I reckon lots and lots of native
carnivores would kark it if it weren't for the introduced rabbits and
mice. I know our local black snake has been growing fat on the mouse
plagues we get occasionally. I wonder what would keep him going if the
mice weren't there?

That's why I have no problem letting the mice go from my humane traps.
The likelihood of their survival away from their colony of origin is
slim to put it mildly and I figure most of them will end up in a
kookaburras dinner menu or a snake's or a kestrel's.

Not saying we need to welcome the bloody-introduced-species, just
pondering the fates of the mice that we catch...

--
Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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"Trish Brown" wrote in message
...
jules wrote:

snip

Probably the mice do too, but they are less likely to survive where
there is snakes and owls and other birds off prey.

snip

jules


Y'know, I often wonder about that. I reckon lots and lots of native
carnivores would kark it if it weren't for the introduced rabbits and
mice. I know our local black snake has been growing fat on the mouse
plagues we get occasionally. I wonder what would keep him going if the
mice weren't there?

there is always a predator/predatee(? is that a word?) balance that forms
after a while. without so many mice, the snake may well live elsewhere - or
possibly not exist at all as his mother may have lived elsewhere/not had
enough to eat in order to reproduce. more likely, without exotic mice, he'd
be eating something else which presently do not live there, because the mice
live there instead & have crowded them out. i don't think we can _know_ what
(for e.g.) your backyard or mine would be like had mice, cats, english
sparrows, & every other thing _not_ been introduced by other people in the
past. there's no way to tell what would have happened once something else
entirely has incontrovertably happened instead. however, quite clearly,
australia would have black snakes aplenty in the absence of european mice.
they'd be eating something else & their habitat patterns might just be
different accordingly, or exactly the same but with a different food
source - or, in the absence of so many humans transporting mice about, there
may have been so many snakes in your area that they reach plague-like
proportions themselves, & subsequently receive a population correction from
mother nature because there is not enough to eat... (or any one of a number
of other hypothetical possibilities). nature keeps animals (and plants), &
the animals or diseases that kill them, in a balance. (it might not be a
balance we approve of, but our opinions actually don't count :-) european
mice, without enough predators (say, cats, dogs & humans - themselves all
introduced species as well), will crowd out similar indigenous species
(which your snake would eat, except that they're not _there_ because of
mice.) there'd have just been a different balance & different animals
occupying different places, but we can't know what it might have been like.

That's why I have no problem letting the mice go from my humane traps. The
likelihood of their survival away from their colony of origin is slim to
put it mildly

er, no..!
how have mice come to prosper? by moving away from their origins (whether by
accident or on purpose) & expanding their habitat.

by my observation, there are two groups of animals in the world - those
which prosper by being smart & adaptable (e.g. humans or dogs) & those which
aren't very bright but prosper by sheer reproductive capacity (mice,
rabbits, kangaroos). with the latter, they may thwart themselves at every
turn & be killed in droves by predators, yet survive in massive quantities
because they have so many babies, a few of whom survive to reproduce. the
animals which plague us tend to be of the latter variety. they are just
adaptable enough to make sure a few of them always survive a new situation.
they are always able to find other individuals to mate with, because those
individuals are already nearby, having previously been relocated, or
relocated themselves, for whatever reason.

then again, i suppose there is a third group of animals which are neither
wickedly intelligent, nor are they highly reproductive. they would be the
animals which either become endangered if someone or something moves in on
them, or become domesticated if they are useful to us & placid enough.

and I figure most of them will end up in a
kookaburras dinner menu or a snake's or a kestrel's.

i think a lot of them probably do, but there will always be enough
survivors, of that you can be sure. if you release a thousand mice in a
lifetime, & only 50 of them subsequently survive to have offspring, there
are still a LOT more mice in the world than there would have been had you
killed all 1000 instead of letting 50 survive.

Not saying we need to welcome the bloody-introduced-species, just
pondering the fates of the mice that we catch...

you're probably right in that most of them are caught pretty quickly. it's
the ones who aren't caught who go on to colonise new areas. which clearly
happens, otherwise australia would not be covered in a thick coating of
mice, rats, cats, goats, foxes, & every imaginable kind of feral pest!!
:-)
kylie

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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:50:16 +1000, "YMC"
wrote in aus.gardens:



I got one of the old fashion traps and one of the new modern plastic
eco-friendly ones which doesn't kill the animal.

I thought of borrowing my friend's cat for the weekend. Its quite good at
catching mice apparently. But I don't know how
effective that would be.

Would it help?? I know its an odd question to ask.


Never mind about cats or old fashioned traps whether eco friendly or
not get one of these:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psycho12/3517640973/

from Woollies or Coles

They are the best traps I have ever used for mice, so sensitive gets
the little ******* every time. Peanut butter is the best bait - mice
cannot resist it.

You don't even have to touch the dead mouse, to release it just take
the trap to your bin open the jaws by squeezing the back part and the
mouse is in the bin, put the trap back (the peanut butter will still
be there) and it is ready to catch the next little blighter.

They are absolutely brilliant traps, promise.


Regards
Oscar

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum - Lucretius

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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:00:58 +1000, "YMC"
wrote in aus.gardens:

I borrowed my friend's cat for the weekend.

And I set up a trap using the "humane mouse trap"

http://www.humanemousetrap.com.au/

I bought it at Bunnings for about $2.60.


Still think these are better and you can use the mouse in your compost
:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psycho12/3517640973/

And you get two in a packet for about the same cost.


Regards
Oscar

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum - Lucretius

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Oscar Trint wrote:

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:00:58 +1000, "YMC"
wrote in aus.gardens:

I borrowed my friend's cat for the weekend.

And I set up a trap using the "humane mouse trap"

http://www.humanemousetrap.com.au/

I bought it at Bunnings for about $2.60.

Still think these are better and you can use the mouse in your compost
:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psycho12/3517640973/

And you get two in a packet for about the same cost.

We've got them. Have caught two mice in them. On both occasions the mouse
was caught by one front foot only and struggled to escape with a severly
broken leg. I'm no animal rights activist but felt sorry for the mice.

Had to dispatch the mouse which some people would not like to do. Would be
better if the trap killed the mouse outright.

On the other hand, the bugger of a rat (or rats?) that we have in the
garden that eats our fruit and avoids all the baits, poisons and traps, I
would happily sentence to that fate.

Mice in garden now in house - News Update
 

On 10 May 2009 15:20:49 GMT, Tom N wrote in aus.gardens:

:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psycho12/3517640973/

And you get two in a packet for about the same cost.

We've got them. Have caught two mice in them. On both occasions the mouse
was caught by one front foot only and struggled to escape with a severly
broken leg. I'm no animal rights activist but felt sorry for the mice.

That's bad luck but that has never happened to me - have used them for
years and get periodic plagues, the traps have always killed em,
except once when a very young tiny mouse (presumably its elders having
been caught previously) was actually caught inside the trap unharmed.
Chucked the trap and mouse in a bucket of water to solve that problem.


Regards
Oscar

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum - Lucretius

Mice in garden now in house - News Update
 

Oscar Trint wrote:
On 10 May 2009 15:20:49 GMT, Tom N wrote in aus.gardens:

:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psycho12/3517640973/

And you get two in a packet for about the same cost.
We've got them. Have caught two mice in them. On both occasions the mouse
was caught by one front foot only and struggled to escape with a severly
broken leg. I'm no animal rights activist but felt sorry for the mice.

That's bad luck but that has never happened to me - have used them for
years and get periodic plagues, the traps have always killed em,
except once when a very young tiny mouse (presumably its elders having
been caught previously) was actually caught inside the trap unharmed.
Chucked the trap and mouse in a bucket of water to solve that problem.


Regards
Oscar

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum - Lucretius

I caught two little grey mices in a humane tilt trap last night

returned to the neighbours as a compliment for their white ants
arriving here after they sprayed last month