Mouse trapping

[Denise12]

Hi,
For the first time in my 4 years in my apt, i found a mouse

It was a little baby I saw scurry from the bathroom to the bedroom. So now I need help with how to trap them.

I can’t put snap traps or any type of trap in the kitchen, b/c that is where buster is let out every day. I can put them in the bathroom or bedroom.

Do you know of any other humane type traps or pest control that I can do? My super said he could bring glue traps up, but I dont want those…they dont die right away and are horrible.  He said our exterminator will come on Saturday. 

Do you know if those thing that emit a sound that you plug in will not be safe for buns?  Probably not right?

ANy help is greatly appreciated!

[hooty22]

Oh glue traps are the WORST! I really have no humane trap suggestions for you. I do have some experience since I was an office manager in an exterminating company for a while, and they hated it when clients would request humane traps because they just aren’t all that effective at clearing up the problem…
Sorry, I know, it’s terrible.

[Deleted User]

The sound emitting anti-vermin device won’t work once you already have a mouse. You can put your reguar effective snap-trap inside an NIC cube, though. Mice fit very easily through the squares and if you put good bait (peanutbutter/salami) they will go for it.

[KytKattin]

There are humane traps, they sell them at hardware stores. They aren’t that expensive for mice. The mouse walks into a kind of box with a door that goes down with the weight but goes back up once the mouse is in. I had a mouse living in my closet. I didn’t set the trap, but instead waited until I heard it in it’s “den” (my witch hat), and I had my boyfriend hold a clothes hamper under the shelf it was on and after I pushed the hanging clothes out of the way and started moving stuff around the mouse made a leap into the hamper and we threw it outside (where my sister’s cat promptly got it ) For anyone that remembers my post about the mouse I saw while on the toilet, yes, it was that one.

[Beka27]

That’s a good idea on how to bunny-proof the trap Petzy. I hadn’t thought of that. You might also want to put something heavy on top so it can’t be lifted up by curious bunnies. I really don’t have any experience with this topic, but I agree that catching the mouse in a humane way would be the best scenario.

[Deleted User]

I first used the NIC cube for protecting my dogs from the traps. For dogs you really have to weight the cube down.

 

I’m using the cube again since my rabbits escaped their condo and tripped 4 traps (unharmed).

[Colie]

They sell humane traps for trap and release. They are cheap because they are reusable (if there is a baby it most likely has brothers and sisters) Of course, you have to feel comfortable with taking it out and releasing it.

Be sure whatever the exterminator does is safe for the bunny

[Dee]

I use the humane traps- I did use the snap-traps for a while, but only in places where the bunnies could NOT get to. I was so parinoid, however, I just started using the humane traps all the time. My male bunny, BunBun, is obsessed with mice- if one gets caught in the humane trap, he will sit beside it all night, probably trying to figure out how to get it out- lol. His wife, Nelli, is terrified of them- we always know when there’s a mouse in then house, cuz Nelli thumps nonstop. We have a hamster and both bunnies love to sniff him and check him out while I’m holding him, but as soon as Nelli sees him scurry on the floor, she starts thumpin’ away. My old hamster, Hammy, escaped from me one night, back when the buns slept in a cage, and paid the bunnies a visit- poor Nelli almost lost her little mind with fright. I came upon the scene and Nelli was up on the upper shelf of the cage, thumping and wide-eyed with BunBun sitting calmly beside her, and the ancient hamster was calmly exiting their cage. Good times.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

The real key will be preventing them from coming back-if their are mice in your apartment-they got in somehow (I’d wager around the plumbing so if the exterminators are coming have them check for entry points) -becuase it won’t matter what you do with the current ones-more will come if they can get in.

I always recommend these traps-as they are humane but of course how you trap is up to you. Glad you won’t do glue traps-they are just awful.
http://www.green-living.com/ProductImages/pestcontrol/mousetrap.jpg

Here’s how to make humane traps yourself
http://mousetrap.droehnland.net/

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