Just one mouse?
We trap over a half dozen every fall and winter. Even after getting a company to seal up crevices and other possible entry points outdoors earlier this year*, I’ve still had to dispose of the usual number of rodent corpses this winter.
*Mrs. J. demanded I do something, after I reported having to remove a snake in the kitchen. It was apparently attracted to the mice. Mrs. J. is not a fan of snakes, to put it mildly. Having one in the kitchen was a reptile too far.
Mouse traps are super cheap. So is an old bucket. Try to stay on top of it or they’ll overrun you.
Looks like the right thread to me.
I use glue traps. They are the most effective for small mice.
Euthanize the poor guy. Don’t put him in the garbage can alive. That’s cruel
What do you do to euthanize them after they get stuck in the glue trap?
I have a short piece of board.
It only takes a tap on the head.
I would never want any critter to linger and suffer.
It’s not safe to catch and release mice. They have fleas and disease. They bite.
A spring mouse trap hits them much harder than I do with the edge of a board.
Glue traps don’t work with big rats.
I found a big clump of hair on the trap.
I have a bald rat that wants to hurt me now.
LOL
Little aceplace foo foo
I don’t wanna see you
Scoopin’ up the field mice
And boppin’ em on the head!
Mice carry all manner of exotic diseases and, while I’m generally a live-and-let-live kind of guy, I have no patience for mice in my house. Even if these critters were squeaky clean they have a proclivity for chewing through home wiring and eating human food. That’s crossing a clear line in my book.
Your classic snap mouse traps are dirt cheap: I see a 12-pack available for $8 on Temu right now. Bait them with a mix of crunchy peanut butter and uncooked rolled oats and you’ll have your mouse/mice caught in no time. Once dispatched you can throw the mouse carcass and trap into the trash.
We have had mouse infestations in various houses we’ve lived in on the past (as well as rats… :shudder:) and the above bait recipie coupled with the classic snap trap always worked liked gangbusters. Now we have 4 feline overlords and our rodent invaders are a thing of the past.
The fact that you are a sublessee is mostly irrelevant. Yes, the slob downstairs and/or the owner should be dealing with the problem but slobs will be slobs and cheap landlords will always be cheap landlords, so fixing the problem is on you. Having mice crawling all over your room and spreading plague is reason enough to take matters into your own hands. Order a case or two of the traps from Temu, get some cheap PB and oatmeal from WalMart, and go on an extermination spree. Your health – and once the little vermin start eating your food, your wallet – will thank you.
I am simply going to sit here…
… And do nothing.
Well, I’ll update the topic here and there if I see him again or have other experiences with him or others.
But I simply don’t care. I said it above, I have ceased to care about pretty much everything except keeping myself alive, so that means feeding myself and watering myself down and expelling waste…
And that’s pretty much it.
I don’t care and I can’t make myself care any more than I already do. … which is zero.
And I cannot force myself to do anything, I discovered not too long ago that my main problem is that some people can force themselves to do things even if they don’t want to do them, but I do not have this power. I do not have this talent of forcing myself to do things that I don’t care about doing. I simply cannot force myself to do it. Forcing myself to do it means I have some caring to force myself, but when I have no caring, I cannot even Force myself, forcing myself to do something becomes impossible also.
If that means I become overrun with mice so badly that they start eating me alive, so be it, I guess.
This is why I said in the OP not to give suggestions or advice. This topic merely serves as a “oh, hey, I had a new experience today” sort of topic, not a “I’m going to take action on this and need help” sort of topic.
Alrighty then.
I’m out.
That is not how attrition works in my book, but you do you.
Keep us up to date if there is a new development, will you? I’ll leave this thread on “Watching”.
This.
I have cats. And when mice get into my food i trap them. (With snap traps baited with a little chocolate. I remove the dead mouse and the chocolate and keep the trap for the next time i need it.) But other than soiling your food, they aren’t all that problematic. They may also chew small holes in the walls, but that’s the landlord’s problem.
I admire your candor.
Post retirement I’m enjoying a bout of “I don’ wanna and you can’t make me” about many things. Truth be told, that attitude can only last so long before it resembles nothing so much as chronic depression. Whether it technically is or isn’t is beside the point; the practical outcome is the same.
I’m fixing my challenges in that department now. Because not-acting-depressed me has a lot more fun; mere ennui-filled existence is a boring waste of precious time.
You do you, and good luck in whatever you do.
There is a Mouse in This House
Maybe it wants to share some green eggs and ham with you.
A little generic wisdom, in hopes that it helps you in your somewhat passive approach to this situation: