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In article >,
says...
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> > I had a mouse.
> >
> > He was living in my kitchen for a week or so.
> >
> > I got some great no-kill traps from Home Depot. Small gray
> > plastic boxes with a gravity lid that stays open while the
> > trap is tilted forward, but slips shut once it tilts back.
> (snip)
> > --Blair
> > "This ain't no Habitrail."
>
> What's the point of no-kill traps for mice? The cheeky little buggers will
> just come back inside where it's warm and go after the Stilton (again). I'm
> all for being humane, but these are invasive critters. Unless you want to
> start breeding them to sell to pet stores to feed to snakes, you have to nip
> the problem in the bud!
>
> I had a mouse problem when they started digging up the field across the
> street to build some houses. True, your regular mouse trap is a tad messy.
> And after hearing the thing snap shut and emptying it about 6 times in an
> hour I decided perhaps poison bait would be better. Put it well behind the
> refrigerator so as not to allow the pets access. They ate it, gluttons that
> they are, then wandered off to wherever they go when you can't find them and
> were not seen or heard from again.

I've rescued a couple of mice from the cats. For instance, one night I
notice the smallest cat is acting a little funny so I call out her name.

She turns around and there's a mouse in her mouth. And of course when
she looks at me she drops the mouse. It runs into a corner so I grabbed
an empty plastic container from the nights Chinese take out, managed to
get the mouse in it and then took it outside and released it.

Now I just let em' have the kill. I just wish they'd leave the hollowed
out bodies in a place where I can find em' instead of having them later
deposit the now dried out hollowed out shell of a mouse on places like
my chair or the couch.

I have noted that the problem has gotten worse since they tore up the
old farmers market behind me and the old manufacturing sector that's
about a half mile to my west. And I'll mention that since the restaurant
downstairs converted once again the pest problem has gotten worse. When
the Italian and Japanese restaurants were in it's place they used to
bait like crazy and we didn't see any mice. Now I *NEVER* see the
exterminators truck. I've been meaning to talk to my landlord about
that.